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Terry Basista sat calmly before the Jellico power board last Wednesday as it voted unanimously to replace him as its attorney.

Three members of the board, Darrell Byrge, Les Stiers and Charles Vermillion, called the special meeting for 3:30 p.m. The regular utility meetings are at 5 p.m. The single item on the agenda was to “replace board attorney.”

The suspects, Matthew Cobb, Jr. and passenger Robert D. Sweet, were in a black Chevrolet truck on Pine Mountain Road, Jarboe’s report said. Jarboe allegedly saw two syringes in the passenger floorboard. Jarboe got permission to search the vehicle, and officers allegedly found a white, powdery substance that resembled methamphetamine and a one-step methamphetamine lab in a tent bag in the truck’s bed.

Shock is the word David G. Young used to describe his reaction to being named the county’s newest deputy mayor.

Already taking calls for the absent County Mayor William Baird on Monday, Young said he could not have been more surprised when he heard Baird on his answering machine last Thursday night telling him to report to work the following day.

With a fresh feel for what it is like to be unemployed, Young said his desire to bring industry and new retailers to the area is strong.

Complaints about roads continued to plague county commissioners at Monday’s workshop.

During a September meeting Commissioner Steve Rutherford requested the group look into finding funds to repair Ivydale Road. Citing the safety of school children traveling that route Rutherford said the condition of the road could be a matter of life and death.

Last week the ways and means committee took on the issue of the road in hopes of hashing out a solution residents and the highway department budget could live with.

Talks of annexation have had county residents around Jellico concerned since the beginning of September. That is when Jellico Mayor Les Stiers presented plans for annexation to the planning commission.