Brownsville Radio News
Scenes from Oath of Office ceremonies,
September 1, 2010
Constitutional Amendment
Slate of candidates set in Stanton
August 19, 2010
Four incumbent aldermen and one challenger complete the list of
city council candidates for the Stanton municipal election set
for November 2.
Mayor Allen Sterbinsky will run unopposed.
The qualifying deadline passed Thursday
at noon.
Incumbent Aldermen A.D. Miller, Ruffie
Jones, Emma Delk and Frank Fawcett are all running for
reelection. Veronica Ronnie Polk is also running for alderman.
According to Stanton’s charter, the top four vote recipients are
elected to Stanton’s town council.
Two other people, Patricia Tyus and
Cassandra Rivers, expressed interest in running for alderman.
Both picked up petitions but did not file them.
Stanton candidates
Brownsville voters may get package
store question
August 18, 2010
First there was liquor by the drink — that was made legal in
Haywood County four years ago this November — then the
Brownsville City Board made package beer and beer by the drink
legal.
What’s next they said?
Package stores?
Could be.
Brownsville Radio has learned that a
petition
is being circulated — and we obtained a
copy of it
— asking that the question be put on the ballot this
November.
The petition asks the same question as
that which could appear on the ballot:
"Pursuant to TCA 57-3-106 (local option
election), we, registered voters of the City of Brownsville, TN,
do hereby request the holding of a local option election to
authorize retail package stores to sell Alcoholic Beverages as
provided by law."
So what’s required?
Election Registrar Andrea Smothers says
the petition must be signed by at least 590 qualified, City of
Brownsville registered voters. The petition must be filed not
less than 60 days prior to the November election. The deadline,
according to Smothers, is September 3.
The November election is a General
Election meaning voters from all over Haywood County may visit
the polls. But if the whiskey store question appears on the
ballot, only Brownsville voters will see it. “Only registered
voters of the jurisdiction (Brownsville) requesting the
referendum may participate,” according to Smothers. A simple
majority —either way — wins the election.
Alcoholic beverages eligible to be sold
in so-called liquor stores include alcohol, spirits, liquor,
wine and every liquid containing them that is “capable of being
consumed by a human.”
The alcohol by the drink question
passed easily in November 2006, failing at only four of Haywood
County’s fifteen polling places. Three of the four were rural
boxes.
Through August 18, the election
commission had validated 169 signatures from petitions that had
so far been submitted.
A copy of petition may be found by
clicking on the blue type.
August Election Results
Election 2010
Faces with names needs photos
June 4, 2010
A Tennessee woman is on a mission to provide The Vietnam
Veterans Memorial Fund with photos of Tennesseans killed during
the Vietnam War.
Judy Gorman King, of White Bluff, Tennessee, has organized the
names by county and is asking that anyone with photographs of
those on the list contact her or send a photo.
According to King, an education center
is being built nearby the Vietnam Memorial in Washington. A
display to include the photos of those lost in the war is
planned for the center.
King has submitted a list of Haywood Countians including:
William Coleman, Jr., Army
Andrew Currie, Marine
William Alford Ferrell, Army
William Lewis Haak, Marine
Richard Keith Johnson, Army
Larry Adrian Land, Marine
RT Perry, Army
Albert N Wright Jr., Marine
Billy Lee Wright, Army
James Edward Young, Army
King also lists the name of Norman Lane but reports she has
Lane’s photo.
King’s contact information is:
Judy Gorman King
PO Box 226
White Bluff, TN 37187
e-mail:
kingfieldpoet@yahoo.com
