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Two board members want to end the policy and make masks optional 60% of surveyed district employees want to keep mask requirement COVIV-19 active cases have decreased since late December Five of the seven Rutherford County Board of Education members back keeping the mask requirement policy through the end of the school year. The seven board members responded to same question from The Daily News Journal about the mask issue, and their answers are provided below.  A unanimous board in July established the mask policy as part of the reopening of schools plan after students had been out since Ma...

Dawsonville City Council approves construction of 67 homes in Thunder Ridge development On Jan. 4, the Dawsonville City Council approved the final plat of Phase 1 of the Thunder Ridge development, which will allow for the construction of 67 new homes. - photo by Erica Schmidt At the Jan. 4 meeting of the Dawsonville City Council, council members approved the final plat of the Thunder Ridge Phase 1 development, which will allow for the construction of 67 new homes.  According to David Picklesimer, Planning Director for the ci...

Tennessee high school coach’s death underscores dangers of school reopenings and sports A Tennessee high school football coach and teacher, 55-year-old David Picklesimer, died of COVID-19 on Sunday, becoming the latest of hundreds of educators that have died from the virus across the US. Picklesimer taught digital arts and design at Siegel High School in Murfreesboro, in Rutherford County. Picklesimer passed away less than a week after Jeremy Morgan, a 44-year-old football coach at Forney High School in Forney, Texas, died of complications from COVID-19 on December 7. Also in Texas, a husba...

"Siegel really lost a good one." Siegel High School teacher dies from COVID-19 A Siegel High School teacher has died from COVID-19, according to family members. Posted at 3:58 PM, Dec 13, 2020 and last updated 2020-12-14 23:27:36-05 RUTHERFORD CO., Tenn. (WTVF) — A Siegel High School teacher has died from COVID-19, according to his family. A sibling of David Picklesimer shared on Facebook he passed away from COVID complications on Sunday. Picklesimer was a digital arts and design teacher at Siegel High. Rutherford County Schools said in a statement: "We are very saddened to learn of t...