Today's News

There will be several challenges that my friends and I will have to conquer throughout our senior year as we prepare for graduation. It may be ideal to attend college after graduation or maybe even enter the military. Whatever it may be there will always be challenges that surface.

I think the three biggest challenges for the class of 2014 are procrastination, perfectionism and fear. To overcome them may seem simple, but it’s not. The motivation will come from the doing.

A fight on a Carroll County school bus – a video of which has gone viral online – has resulted in charges of fourth-degree assault with minor injury against two 13-year-old girls, according to Carrollton Police Chief Mike Willhoite.

Willhoite said Carroll County Dispatch received a call at 3:20 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, from district Transportation Director Nadena Mahoney about the incident, in which the two girls allegedly assaulted another 13-year-old girl on the bus.

Carrollton city officials want Carroll County Fiscal Court to replenish the local 911 fund with more than $300,000 – money they believe was used to cover the county’s share of program costs.

The report commissioned by city council makes the claim based on ordinances and an interlocal agreement – signed Nov. 23, 1994, when Bill Welty was mayor and now-mayor Gene McMurry was judge-executive. The fee is paid by landline telephone and cell phone users.

Loss control/safety officer position a possibility

McMurry is in talks with Carrollton Utilities Manager Bill Osborne about hiring CU loss control/safety officer Tim Pearson to also cover the city. The mayor said the city paid $1,200 more in liability insurance because the city does not have a loss-control employee. Both Osborne and Pearson are in favor of the arrangement. McMurry said they still need to discuss what share of the expenses the city would pick up. “It’s something we definitely need,” he said.