Early January 2023 During the early week’s of 2023 Sheriff Nick Smith began to publicly express his frustrations about the WCSO being underfunded (his claims) in response to Chairman Steve Miller’s insistence that the Sheriff get the WCSO employee overtime under budget. Per the Daily Mountain Eagle, Sheriff Nick Smith expressed his gre...

Dear Citizens of Walker County, Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear" and it is in attempt to adhere to my own assessment of what I see as "more important than fear" that I write this open letter to you. I am writing this open let...