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December 31, 2012 Page 9 - The BUZZ
torical context inside the
courthouse went “on
hold” over threatened lawsuits;
later in the year the
plans would apparently be
scrapped permanently because
of county commission
promises made years
previous never to hang the
commandments in a pub-
lic building in the county.
Amy Mason became
chief operating officer of
the Monroe County
Women’s Wellness and
Maternity Center in June;
Vonore unveiled its new
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Veterans Memorial Park;
and with the removal of a
porch roof, a 1941 marker
came into view during renovations
to the county’s
“Old Stone House” (the
vaulted “Rock House”) on
Tellico Street.
As the month waned
and summer seriously got
underway, Wilburn and
Goodman were indicted
by the local grand jury on
felony charges of official
oppression in the pepper
spraying incident. The
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the owners of the alter-
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rests of two men who were
charged with first-degree
murder of Justin Click of
Sweetwater. Sheriff’s detectives
arrested Charles
Kile of Vonore and
Stephen Chrisman of Calhoun
for the firearm slay-
ing of the teenager.
A historic heat wave set
in as July began, sending
the mercury into triple
digits for over two weeks
and between 90 and 100
degrees for most of the
month, resulting in profuse
sweating and hanging
tongues. Burning bans
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were issued and numerous
Fourth of July fireworks
were canceled. Except for
Vonore, which fired explosives
and rockets over Tellico
Lake on July 4.
Early voting for the August
county general election
started in June; the
juvenile court’s “Children
Attitude Motivation Program,”
or CAMP, graduated
six male teens; and
former Sheriff R.H. Johnson
passed away at age 79.
The man believed to
have been behind the
murder of Sweetwater
businessman Troy Green
in 2006 walked out of the
Monroe County Courthouse
a free man after
two-and-a-half years in
confinement, his release
coming after Criminal
Judge Amy Reedy granted
a 2011 defense motion to
dismiss the first-degree
murder indictment
against him. John Edward
Dawson took the bye following
a change in testimony
by a key prosecution
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