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The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) tweeted Thursday that wildlife officers removed an alligator from a pond in Bradley County.
The tweet says, “Bradley Co Wildlife Officer Dillon Maynard (and Officers Ben Davis & Barry Baird) removed an alligator from a pond.”
Davis said the alligator was quite docile and relatively tame.
He said, “When it got close to shore they just used a catch pole to get it.” A catch pole is a pole with a noose that can be tightened over an animal’s head.
Davis said they took the alligator to the Chattanooga Zoo.
From the Chattanooga Times Free Press…
Explosive population growth in Metro Nashville and surrounding counties with corresponding stagnation or losses in the western, northeast and several other sections of Tennessee will bring major changes to the boundaries of many congressional and state legislative districts next year.
As a result, a number of congressional and legislative districts will shrink while others expand in order to meet new population requirements.
Statewide, the U.S. Census’ findings are 6.91 million people now live in the Volunteer State, an increase of just more than 564,000 people in a decade. But given higher growth elsewhere in the U.S., Tennessee will continue with its current lineup of nine congressional seats with no additional seats added.
While state lawmakers must approve a plan prior to the April 7th, 2022, deadline, Tennessee county and municipal governments must move more quickly to get their commission, council and school district seats drawn and approved by Jan. 1st, 2022.
Population growth in select areas, primarily Davidson and nearby “doughnut” counties, will result in needing to redraw new congressional lines to reflect that as well as in many if not all of the state’s 99 state House districts and 33 Senate districts as a result of the massive growth in Middle Tennessee.
Among other things, that likely would result in reuniting Bradley County, which is now split between the state’s 3rd Congressional District and 4th Congressional District as a result of the last once-a-decade reapportionment and redistricting process back in 2012.
From the Chattanooga Times Free Press…
City Manager Seth Sumner told his side of the story of the missing Google Nest cameras to the Athens City Council last week in a six-hour session, which ended with the decision to hold another such meeting.
Police Chief Cliff Couch had reported the surveillance cameras missing — and mysteriously returned — in two lengthy letters to the local prosecutor, suggesting Sumner had something to do with it.
District Attorney Steve Crump found no crime to investigate, labeling it an internal issue for Athens City Hall. But the matter has continued to reverberate in city government, with two previous secret meetings before the public forum on Tuesday.
According to the police chief’s report to the DA, the cameras were noticed missing in November 2020 and then turned up in a supply closet and an officer’s laptop case in December and January respectively, with no explanation. One detective remembered the city manager taking possession of the cameras at an unspecified earlier time.
Sumner focused on the timeframe, saying his brief possession of the cameras was unrelated and unremarkable and happened years ago.
Sumner told the council his contact with the cameras went back more than two years.
As evidence of his brief encounter with the cameras, Sumner offered a calendar entry for Dec. 10, 2018, which said, “Get Nest cam from PD.”
That night, Sumner said, he did further research on security cameras for his home and decided against the Google Nest cameras.
Sumner said he then returned the Nest cameras to Witt’s office the next day, Dec. 11, 2018, and that was the last he had any knowledge of the whereabouts of the cameras.
