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friends! When visiting Citizens Tri County Bank, you re visiting - ' Just remember, wherever you travel across this beautiful area, we've got you covered. Jasper 4765 Main Street Jasper, TN 37347 423-658-5880 Whitwell 14087 Hwy. 28 Whitwell, TN 37397 South Pittsburg 402 North Cedar Avenue South Pittsburg, TN 37380 423-837-8645 423-942-1990 citizenstricounty.com Jasper • Kimball • Monteagle • New Hope • Orme • Powells Crossroads • South Pittsburg • Whitwell T ribune MARION September 5, 2024 Volume 2 - No. 6 $1.00 T MARION Lakeway Publishers Inc. 2023 c Support Local Community Journalism! $35 00 Charter Subscriber Offer arichards@mariontribune.com 100 Betsy Pack Dr. Suite 204, Jasper 423-590-6397 $37 See more Labor Day photos on page 12 Julien Bynum makes history as first Marion County Distinguished Young Woman of Tennessee LACIE SILVA Editor J ulien Bynum, a senior at South Pittsburg High School, has made history as the fi rst rep- resentative from Marion County to be named the Distinguished Young Woman of Tennessee for the Class of 2025. On July 22, Bynum was awarded the title and $5,000 in cash scholar- ships during the Ten- nessee State scholarship program for high school girls held at Lee Univer- sity in Cleveland. The Distinguished Young Woman (DYW) program, formerly known as America’s Junior Miss, is the old- est and largest national scholarship program in the country, having be- gun in 1958. Its mission is to empower young T he Tennessee Re- cycling Coalition is pleased to announce the 2024 Recycler of the Year Awards, a program that recognizes individu- als, organizations, and businesses in Tennessee that have demonstrated a commitment and out- standing achievement to waste prevention and re- cycling. Sewanee Moun- tain Grotto was present- ed the Non-Pro fi t Recy- cler of the Year award. Lincoln Young, Ten- nessee Sustainability Conference director, an- nounced the awards dur- ing closing ceremonies of a three-day learning and networking conference at Gatlinburg’s Park Vis- ta Hotel. The joint event was organized by TRC, the TN Chamber of Com- merce and Industry and the Tennessee Environ- mental Conference. Sewanee Moun- tain Grotto received the Non-Pro fi t Recycler of the Year award. The Se- wanee Mountain Grotto has a long history of recycling. Since its re- activation in 2004, the Grotto has participated in recycling aluminum cans and plastic bottles at regional caving events held in the area. In 2019, one of the grotto mem- bers was working at The Caverns music venue in Pelham, TN and recog- nized a need for The Cav- erns to begin recycling. He screamed all the way to the jail: deputy LISA HOBBS Editor A man who refused to go quietly now faces multiple charges after a tra ffi c stop ended in an altercation that injured fi rst responders. Jacob Allen Wade Lawson, 29, of Gruetli- Laager, was arrested August 23. Among his charges are one count of resisting stop, arrest and search and three counts of assault on a fi rst re- sponder. According to an incident report, he alleg- edly refused to comply with a law enforcement o ffi cer’s commands to step out of an unregis- tered vehicle that he was driving without a license, insurance or working brake lights. “The vehicle stopped in front of the fi re de- partment in Monteagle,” said Grundy County Sheri ff ’s Department Detective Avery McGin- ness. “While the car was stopping, I looked in the Jacob Allen Wade Lawson Tennessee Recycling Coalition named Sewanee Mountain Grotto 2024 Non-Pro fi t Recycler of the Year Partners in Policymaking to have first representative of Marion County LACIE SILVA Editor M arion County’s Kelley Hogan has been selected to par- ticipate in the free Part- ners in Policymaking program for leadership and disability advocacy training. The Tennessee Coun- cil on Developmental Disabilities has been training disability advo- cates for over 30 years through its Partners in Policymaking Leader- ship Institute. This free leadership and advocacy program spans eight months, during which participants learn cru- cial skills to help shape a better future for people with developmental dis- abilities. The program includes fi ve live virtual sessions and three in- See Grotto, Page 4A See Lawson, Page 4A See Partners, Page 4A See Bynum, Page 4A Pictured LtoR: Gary Wayne Hyde; Troy Wilson and Jan Martin. Domtar; Ginger Reasonover, TN Environmental Council; Maureen Handler, Katie Balazs, Sewanee Mountain Grotto; Jenn Harrman, Metro Waste Services, Nashville;, Kathleen Gibi, Keep the TN River Beautiful Kelley Hogan