Fort Payne Times Journal (Newspaper) - March 17, 2007, Fort Payne, Alabama INSIDE SECTION C THE CLASS OF 2018 FIND OUT DEKALB STUDENTS SAID INSIDE SPORTS DEKALB COUNTY'S BIG SPRING GAME TIGERS GEAR UP FOR SCRIMMAGE OLDEST NEWSPAPER March 17-18, 2007 Only 75 cents TODAYS HEADLINES Heated Debate The Alabama Senate set the stage Thursday for what may be a rocky 2007 regular session of the Page A7 A YOUR RIGHT Councils The Rainsville City Council will meet Monday at 6 at City The Fort Payne City Council will meet March 20 at 6 at City The Ider Town Council will meet March 26 at 6 at Town The Henagar City Council will meet March 26 at 5 at City Commission The DeKalb County Commission meets March 27' at 10 at the Activities Building in Fort School Boards The DeKalb County Board of Education will meet March 22 at 5 at the Facilities Building in The Fort Payne City S Board will meet March 26 at 5 at the central Other The Ider Park Board will meet April 2 at 7 at Town Paul Finebaum After a 11 record and another top 10 national Auburn faces major challenges in 2007. In many the Tigers should be better in the upcoming The problem is an evil road MARKET The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 50 points Page A2 FORECAST HIGH Today's forecast 53 calls for partly sunny skies with breezy Low 29 Page A2 INSIDE Stock Vol. 129, No. 55 Woman found well Tips lead investigators to Darling at a friend's home in Pisgah By Kati Burns A Fort Payne wooman missing since Feb. 25 was found late Friday afternoon after tips led authorities to a home in Jackson Kay Darling was unharmed when deputies arrived at what was apparently one of Darling's friend's house in Pisgah at 5:10 p.m. found her in it was good DeKalb County Sheriff Jimmy Harris just didn't want to be She said she just needed a break from After a good scolding for about 30 minutes from our we made her call all of her relatives and we left her See A3 File photo Kay Darling has been missing for nearly two She was found Friday MAKING IT FEEL JUST LIKE HOME photo by Dusty Plunkett Jimmy Barnard assembles a bed on Friday as vendors get ready for the Northeast Alabama Home and Garden Show at the DeKalb County Schools The show will be today from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday from noon until 4 p.m. People unaware of records laws Poll shows 60 percent did not know about laws By Mike Baker The Associated Press - Almost 60 percent of residents surveyed in five Southeastern Services 996-5911 FREE Residential & Commercial states are unaware their state government has according to a new Only 37 percent of respondents said they were aware of the so-called that allows the public access to government and WEEK YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW f information In South only 21 percent of those polled knew about the Florida residents were most with 55 percent of those surveyed saying they knew of their state's saddened by these but I'm not said Beth executive director for the North Carolina Press our job to educate the and clearly we have a lot of work to The conducted by researchers at Elon See A3 Commission controversy continuing Mounted Unit training area draws dueling letters By Jared Felkins It appears Sheriff Jimmy Harris and the DeKalb County Commission are holding firm on their positions concerning the site of the Mounted Unit The which is made up of volunteers and is not funded by the set up its headquarters recently behind the DeKalb County On the commission voted to have county attorney Rocky Watson write a letter to Harris demanding him to take down the horse On the letter was delivered to but the sheriff contends he will not remove the pens from county are not going Harris At Tuesday's commissioners talked about the reasons behind their According to commission President Sid the reasons were the potential for the county to be liable if someone got hurt and the fact that Harris did not ask the The letter sent to Harris on Friday outlined those areas and demanded he remove the pens within 14 don't know what there is to talk Holcomb commission has made it pretty clear how they I don't see them changing their Both Holcomb and Harris See A3 Is the government How lent about government secrecy and whether should obtain warrants before tapping opening mail * Is your local government open or Somewhat or very opon the federal government open or Should ihe other federal Investigators get permission a judge before opening monitoring phone t Hat federal government opened monitored phone calls of people in U S without tint getting a very likely Should the press reveal secret Do you approve or disapprove The press disclosed that the of the press for disclosing that j CIA apparently used the CIA operated secret prisons shock and waier boarding in Eastern Interrogation Disapprove -i Don't other 11%__ File photo Alabama Agriculture Commission Ron Sparks wrote a letter supporting Sheriff Jimmy position on the new training area for the Mounted shelter on agenda Woman wants to plead her case to Rainsville board By Kati Burns A animal shelter owned and operated by Rainsville resident Carol Crocker is up for discussion Monday night by the city Zoning Board of who was asked by the city of Rainsville in January to and operation of her kennels that provide homes for several hundred neglected and abandoned dogs and said Wednesday that despite what is she has no plans to cease operation of her The Zoning Board will meet for the public hearing at 6 p.m. in the Rainsville Fire have a speech I'm going to give but I'm not going to defend Crocker going to continue doing what I've been My dogs aren't going anywhere and nothing is going to change for me. Maybe the city thinks this zoning committee will get me off the city's but that's not going to I'm going to sue the See A3