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Volume 150, Number 17 75 cents Week of APRIL 24, 2019
In This Issue:Editorial .................... 4A
Senior Calendar .................... 5A
Family Living .................... 6A
Student Voices .................... 7A
Religion .................... 8A
Genealogy .................... 9A
Sports .................. 12A Little League! .................... 1B
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NOW OPENBoones Creek School announces open enrollment for 2019
By MARINA WATERSStaff Writer
[email protected] a few months out from its offi cial opening, the new
Boones Creek School has opened student enrollment.The Washington County Board of Education unanimous-
ly voted to open student enrollment at its Thursday, April 11 meeting. In January, the board voted to close enrollment once a school reaches 90 percent of the building’s capacity and added the Boones Creek School to that list in order to get an idea of how many students would be zoned for the school following the rezoning in the northern half of the county in November of 2018.
At the Thursday, April 11 meeting, Washington County Director of Schools Bill Flanary said the school currently expects 700 students. Ninety percent capacity at the new Boones Creek School would be 1,100 students, Flanary said.
“We have a pretty good idea of what the enrollment is going to be at the new school,” Flanary told the board. “It will be about what we expected it to be. Kindergarten is
Rain fails to dampen Crockett plant auctionBy ALLEN RAUStaff Writer
[email protected] and rainy weather was not
enough to keep green thumb-owning folks from the Fifth Annual David Crockett Future Farmers of America plant auction on Saturday morning.
“I was expecting fewer people to come because of the weather,” Crockett FFA Chapter Treasurer Anna Young said, “But that just goes to show how big of an event this is and how much people love it.”
Held at the Jonesborough Visitor’s Center in a steady rain, lilac trees, chainsaws, pallets of mulch and much more was auctioned off to help pay for the expenses and travels of the Crockett Chapter FFA.
A table full of awards claimed by the club greeted everyone who walked in, displaying their successes in their trav-
School board member arrested on new charge
By MARINA WATERSStaff Writer
[email protected] member of the Washington
County Board of Education has been arrested for the second time in two months.
According to a Johnson City Police report, David Hammond was arrested on Thursday, April 18, and charged with violation of an order of protection, which resulted from the situation that resulted in Hammond’s arrest on Friday, March 22. Hammond was charged with simple domes-tic assault during the March arrest.
According to the report, police arrived at Hammond’s
David Hammond
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Gray, Asbury fi nd lead in waterBy MARINA WATERS
Staff [email protected] Washington County
School System is adding two more to the list of schools in the district with an excess amount of lead in two drinking fountains.
Gray Elementary School and Asbury Optional High School each had one water fountain containing an overage of lead according to state regulations. If a school drinking fountain contains 20 parts per billion or above in its water, the school system must remove the contaminated drinking source. Other drinking sources are allowed to stay in use.
“We are trying to make arrangements for bottled water to be made available at the schools,” Washington
County Director of Schools Bill Flanary said. “Although we had sources of water that did not test (for an overage of lead), we understand if a child doesn’t want to drink from any of the fountains at this point.”
Gray’s contaminated foun-tain was at 104 parts per bil-
lion and Asbury’s was at 1,490 parts per billion, according to results from Wingfi eld Envi-ronmental Inc. Flanary said the group will re-test Asbury’s sample to make sure that count is accurate.
Last week, the school sys-tem found that Boones Creek Elementary and West View Elementary had excess lead amounts in three fountains as well, totaling fi ve fountains in the county with an overage of lead. According to state law, once the contaminated drinking source is removed, the source must be re-tested within 90 days. Flanary said the required re-testing for the effected sources is currently scheduled with Wingfi eld Environmental Inc.
As for the other Washington
County approves athletic project, industrial park plan
By MARINA WATERSStaff Writer
[email protected] Washington County Commission was thinking of new
ballfi elds and a potential new manufacturer when the group passed two motions approving plans at the Boones Creek ath-letic facility site and the Washington County Industrial Park.
The commission passed a resolution to use $150,000 for utility infrastructure construction at the Boones Creek athletic facility site in a 12-1-1 vote. Commissioner Danny Edens was opposed, Robbie Tester abstained from the vote and Mike Ford was absent.
“It was recommended we take some action on this because the children starting school in August,” Commissioner Phil Carriger, the chairman of the Commerce, Industry and Agri-culture Committee, said. “Right now it’s nothing but red clay out there. We’d love to have some fi elds for them and some grass in.”
Commissioners Larry England and Jodi Jones, who are also part of the CIA Committee, added that doing the elec-trical work and utilizing the equipment while it is already on
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Above, David Crockett FFA members work the show; below, students celebrate the auction’s success.CONTRIBUTED
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