By Dewain E. Peek, OCN Staff

In the famous words of Yogi Berra, “It’s déjà vu all over again.” Just two months ago Overton County Board of Education began searching for the next director of schools, and now the School Board is again searching for the next director of schools.

Overton County Board of Education had planned a called meeting Monday, June 17 to vote on the contract of D. Scott Porter, who had been selected last Tuesday to succeed Matt Eldridge as school director, but the meeting’s purpose changed when Porter declined the offer over the weekend.

“Mr. Porter, he called me Saturday morning about 8 o’clock and he turned the position down,” Chairman Ricky Dodson said to begin the work session Monday evening.

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School Board members focus on D. Scott Porter as he speaks during Friday's contract negotiations.

By Dewain E. Peek, OCN Staff

After an unscheduled update on the area’s Adult Basic Education system by Area Supervisor Gertie Campbell, who explained that Fentress, Overton, Jackson, Clay, and Pickett counties are now grouped together and local supervisors are being cut, the Board turned their attention to hammering out a contract for the next school director.

By Dewain E. Peek, OCN Staff

After hearing executive action approval of course continuation of Microbiology and of Criminal Justice at Livingston Academy, and approving Overton County Jr. Cats Dance Team’s attendance at an overnight camp at Tennessee Tech University from June 18 to June 21, Overton County Board of Education considered appointing a new director of schools during the regular monthly meeting held Tuesday, June 11.

Diann Poston made a motion to appoint Scott Porter as director of schools, and Leslie Norrod seconded the motion.

By Lyndon Johnson, OCN staff

A 16 year-old Rickman male was flown to Vanderbilt University Medical Center Monday night after falling over Waterloo Falls near the Hardy’s Chapel community.

According to Overton County Rescue Squad member Rhonda Roberts, the fall victim said he had been walking across the falls when he slipped and fell.

“He slipped and fell approximately 30 feet over the falls, hitting a ledge on the way down and landing in water,” Roberts said.

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A crew moves the former Netherland Church of Christ building from its former home at the corner of Netherland Road and Old Highway 42 to its new home at the new site of Netherland Church of Christ near Netherland Road’s intersection with Highway 111 on Monday, June 17.

The Town of Livingston will be moving the water main for the new overpass project on Saturday, June 22, which will affect water service in some areas.

Residents along Monterey Highway and Rickman Road, as well as parts of West Overton Utility District, will have no or low water pressure.

Water will be shut off between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.

By Lyndon Johnson, OCN staff

An Overton County man was killed in a crash that occurred in Clay County Friday, June 14.

Overton County Sheriff’s Department will hold countywide road blocks Wednesday, June 19 through Saturday, June 22, and Tennessee Highway Patrol will be conducting sobriety and driver license roadside checkpoints in Overton County on Friday, June 21.