2012: The BUZZ Takes A Quick Look Back - Monroe County ...

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2012
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man Wayne “Badeye”
Harris turned 80 as cameras
flashed; and the
Madisonville Police Department
got a camera of
its own: a portable pole
camera designed to catch
highway speedsters flashing
by wherever it was set
up.
With April’s arrival, the
four defendants in the
Vineyard homicide were
indicted by the Monroe
County Grand Jury. The
Melanie Phillips family
bought Hall’s Florist in
Madisonville, amending
its name to “Petals and
Gifts.” The Monroe
County Election Commission
announced the school
board districts concept
was approved too late to
become a part of the upcoming
July county general
election, and it was
back to original three
school districts. Bye bye,
District Four of Vonore.
“Out on Ballplay,” as
they say, the Ruritan Club
held its second annual
ramp festival, serving up
mountain grown wild
leeks, spuds, cornbread,
and other fixins’ too delicious
to describe in a family
morning news
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magazine. Fete number
three is yet to arrive.
At the county courthouse,
a hearing in the
homicide case of Jim
Miller of Sweetwater revealed
that Miller’s was
killed at a “yellow house”
on Creek Road; the case
was set for trial in August,
“with no more continuances,”
said Special Judge
Walter C. Kurtz.
The month ended with
new prosecutors from the
Chattanooga district attorney
general’s office
named to lead the murder
case of Sweetwater businessman
Troy Green. The
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation
absolved former
Tellico Plains Police
Chief Bill isbell of any
wrongdoing while in office,
following a state audit
of the city’s police funds.
In May, Mitch McDonald
of the Hiwassee area
was charged with shooting
neighbor Jonathan German;
the grand jury indicted
former sheriff’s
employees John Wilburn
and Darian Goodman in
connection with the pepper
spraying of an in-custody
inmate; and cattle
rustling suspects Doug
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Nipper, Gary Hill, and
Kenneth Meredith were
bound out of a general sessions
courtroom to the
grand jury for stealing
bovine.
With June’s arrival, Hiwassee
College officially
opened its newly renovated
swimming pool to
the general public, while
the Madisonville Police
Department made waves
of its own with its annual
“Cops and Kids Fishin’
Rodeo” at Kefauver Park’s
sloshing lake.
The Madisonville
Board of Aldermen announced
a “balanced
budget” for the coming
fiscal year, giving employees
a two percent raise and
new cell phones. At the
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same time, the Monroe
County Board of Education
approved a one-year
extension on Schools Director
Mike Lowry’s contract,
extending it to a full
four years after a splendid
annual evaluation.
State officials breezed
in for the annual certification
of the jail, okaying it,
December 31, 2012
New Years Eve Party
December 31
Wicked Garden
Doug & DeAnna
$9 Bucket
of Beer
Boomerang
despite its deteriorating
and overcrowded condition,
its bad ventilation,
plumbing, and aging infrastructure,
because of the
county’s current “plan of
action” to ultimately replace
the facility and possibly
relocate its site.
Plans to repost the Ten
Commandments in a his-
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