Commission rejects pause
Anderson County Sheriff Russell Barker watches for the results, also displayed above him, of a vote for whether or not to keep the county’s two working Flock cameras running. At left is Commissioner Shannon Gray. - Ben Pounds
Two Anderson County Flock license-plate reader cameras remain in operation despite the county law director’s determination that the contract covering them is invalid. The County Commission voted 9-6 on Monday (Oct. 19) against a proposal to pause the use of the county’s two functioning Flock cameras. The vote means the cameras will remain in use for now, despite questions about the contract’s validity. The county’s Budget Committee will hear from Law Director James Brooks on Thursday, Nov. 5, about whether the county could face legal action from Flock if it does not ratify the contract, and what that action might entail. The meeting will take place in Room 312 of the Anderson County Courthouse in Clinton. Brooks has said the contract renewal, executed by an Anderson County Sheriff’s Office operations captain on Dec. 20, 2023, had not been reviewed by the Budget Committee or approved by the County Commission.
Read MoreEarly voting surges 36% in Anderson County
Voting machines are set up at the early voting site in the Anderson County Government office in the Anderson Crossing Center in Norris, as seen from the public area of the county clerk’s office. - G. Chambers Williams III
With nearly a week gone by, early voting for the Nov. 3 general election in Anderson County and statewide reportedly has outpaced the midyear balloting for 2022, with just over a week left to go. The deadline for in-person early voting is next Thursday, Oct. 29, but the deadline for turning in a request for an absentee ballot is this coming Saturday, Oct. 24, said Mark Stephens, the Anderson County elections administrator. Those wanting to vote absentee may download the application from the county’s election website, acelection.com. So far, as of the end of Saturday, Oct. 17, a total of 3,846 people had voted early either by machine (3,676) or by paper ballot (170). That compares with 2,825 who voted in the first four days of early voting in 2022, according to the Tennessee Secretary of State’s website – an increase of 36.14% from four years ago.
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Sweet tradition resumes at Andersonville farm
Bobby Stooksbury hooked draft-horse Ethel up to the sorghum cane-grinding mill on his farm in Andersonville on Saturday morning, and continued his annual process of making this year’s crop of sorghum molasses. Under sunny skies and, finally, some cool fall weather, Stooksbury’s nephew, Kyle Buckner, led the horse around in circles and rammed the cane stalks into the grinder to extract the sweet yellow juice from them. The sorghum cane is grown each year on the farm, at 514 Park Lane. Within about an hour of starting, Bucker had enough of the cane juice in the bucket to pour it into the cooker, which sits under an open hut a few feet away. There, the sorghum cane juice is boiled down into the thick syrup, which is then bottled and sold on the farm. Stooksbury’s business partner, Alan Conrad, also makes a sorghum molasses-sweetened barbecue sauce that he bottles and sells along with the molasses from the cooking booth. The process is open for visitors to see from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. every Saturday this fall. Pint-size jars of the sorghum molasses and sorghum barbecue sauce cost $10 each. “We make about 100 gallons of the sorghum syrup every year here on the farm,” Stooksbury said. It takes about three hours to make the syrup from the raw cane juice. One acre of sorghum cane can make up to 150 gallons of the syrup, Stooksbury said. The operation is open to the public to view.
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