Dayton News

This is Part 1 of the June Rhea County Commission Meeting held at the Rhea County Courthouse. During this Part 1 the commission voted to buy property for a new jail.

This is the 30 minute Hearing concerning the Vincent and Louallen properties. These properties were set the two options for the county to consider buying for the building of a new jail.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says the federal government is funding nine Tennessee business-related projects with more than $100,000 in grants.

This past summer, the city of Chattahoochee Hills agreed to pay $600,000 to a young man who was falsely arrested by city police and incarcerated for 99 days on charges of involvement in a shooting and child abuse.

On Monday, June 3, 2013 I was at the Dayton City Hall where I sat in attendance and video recorded the June meeting of the Dayton City Council. For the last several months I have video recorded the monthly Dayton Council meetings, as well as various Rhea County Commission meetings. All of the meetings, as well as various other video recordings and newsworthy public interest stories and news reports would then be uploaded to the website www.DaytonHerald.net which was, and is, maintained by me. In addition to the DaytonHerald.net website, video recordings would also be uploaded to the Dayton Herald account at www.YouTube.com/DaytonHerald and to create more exposure and broaden the readership base, videos in addition to public interest newsworthy stories, reports and other general interest information would be uploaded to the DaytonHerald.net official Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/DaytonHerald.net. In addition to these websites, a variety of information would be shared with various other websites for consideration of providing for an even greater exposure on the Internet. During this June 3, 2013 Dayton City Council meeting, myself as well as various other people in attendance participated in the meeting as allowed by Mayor Gary Louallen.

The 25th annual Scopes Festival again will include an activity featuring oral history shared through the generations.

Here is a short video are some pictures and video recordings of the property that belongs to Bobby Vincent. This property (Vincent property) is located on 2nd Ave. where the old Dayton Coal and Iron plant was located back in the late 1800's. The plant was shut down and soon afterwards an Ice company was built there. Many people are unaware of the history of this particular piece of ground. According to records, it appears that Bobby Vincent owns all of this acreage, including lots extending to Madison Ave..

The Honor Ride for Hospice will run as scheduled Saturday morning. It is a 111-mile motorcycle Poker Run that will raise money to help provide hospice care for area Veterans.

This is Part 1 of a 6 part video sequence. Several citizens addressed the council about the Generations/Gaither Homes for the Mentally Ill. These were essentially the same people that addressed the council about Generations/Gaithers at last month's council meeting. It was made rather clear at the last meeting that the city was powerless to do anything about what Generations/Gaithers did. Although the council and city attorney heard pretty much all this at it's May meeting, the council listened patiently as this issue was discussed again at considerable length during the Public Comments segment. This issue was not on the agenda. At timeline 27:10:00 the video recorder was turned off for about 20 minutes to conserve battery power as the commentary became rather repetitive.

At approximately 1:00 a.m. this morning we recieved a "news scoop" of a news article published in the Herald-News online edition that "Husband of biker killed in 2012 wreck sues Dayton". We followed the link provided and found basically NO information at all. READ THE ENTIRE COMPLAINT HERE.

A lawsuit has been filed in Federal Court against the city of Dayton by a woman whose husband was killed while taking part in a motorcade through Dayton.

Following a review by the Comptroller's Division of Investigations, the former clerk of the Watauga River Regional Water Authority/North Elizabethton Water Division surrendered to the Carter County Sheriff's Office this month after being indicted on charges of theft, forgery, official misconduct and credit card fraud.

This county commission meeting appeared to be just another regular meeting until it came time to vote for the purchase of land to build a new jail. As we all know, the jail and the extensive jail overcrowding problem have plagued the county for the better part of two years. After several core drilling tests, architect footprints and over $200,000 on studies, the county commission had narrowed the proposed properties down to two. Those properties were the Welch property located on 16th Ave. and the Louallen property located on Manufactures Road. These two properties for consideration for purchase by the county were on the agenda. Finally it seemed that the commission was ready to buy land which would satisfy the state's mandate of a "good faith" showing of doing something to fix the jail overcrowding problem. Click title for full story and video