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Officials have education proposal worries formula proposals on Monday. The formula would replace the current 20-year-old education program called the Mississippi Adequate Education Program. The per-pupil cost for the new formula would depend on several variables, including how much would be spent on technology, classroom supplies
BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com
Lawmakers learned this week that more of Mississippi’s education funding could be shifted from the state budget to local taxpayers. EdBuild, a consulting group the state hired last year, presented new school funding
and professional development for teachers. Wealthier school districts could be in line to receive less money from the state. But schools could receive more for educating low-income students and those who don’t speak Eng-
“The proposals are wanting us to pass the buck to local governments. Local people would pay more to fund education then the state government. That can’t happen.” Rep. Nick Bain
Please see PROPOSAL | 2A
A place to grow
Sales, tourism tax collections mixed BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
Staff photo by Zack Steen
Pine Vale Children’s Home Executive Director Randy Collum talks with Kiwanis Club of Corinth president Zane Elliott following Tuesday’s club meeting.
Children’s home plans expansion BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com
Pine Vale Children’s Home is changing the lives of local neglected children. The home, one of only three
remaining non-therapeutic children’s homes in the state, provides needy Crossroads area children with a safe place to live and grow. In 2017, the children’s home
plans to expand and build a fourth cottage on their property. “The state considers us the lowest level of care in a group
Dance academy to host Russian ballet instructor
Please see EXPANSION | 2A
Four months into the new fiscal year, sales and tourism tax collections in Corinth are not posting large gains but continue to be near recordhigh numbers. The city’s share of sales tax proceeds deposited in mid-January posted a slim 0.6 percent increase with $517,913.25, about $3,000 more than a year ago. The result reflects sales activity made in local establishments during the month of November. Collections across the state rose 4.5 percent, while eight of a dozen municipalities in the northeast corner posted growth over the same month a year earlier. Corinth’s cumulative total for FY 2017 goes to $2.029 million, a decrease of onethird of a percentage point, or about $6,900, from the same point in FY 2016. The 2 percent tourism tax on restaurant food and hotels generated $103,794.03, a decrease of 5.2 percent, or about $5,700, from a year earlier. The cumulative total for the fiscal year goes to
People of the Crossroads Trinity Jacobs, Corinth A native of Corinth, Trinity Jacobs is a woman of many talents. When she’s not enjoying time off with friends and loved ones, the 26-yearold splits her time between two of her passions – helping others and crafting natural, organic beauty products. From colorful bath bombs and creamy lotions to exfoliating scrubs and fragrant body sprays, the Taboo Trinity Bodyworks owner creates a wide variety of goodies with the help of Mother Nature. A 2010 graduate of Biggersville High School, Trinity studied radiology and nuclear medicine at Northeast Mississippi Community College. She is the wife of Gage Jacobs, who she married in 2013, and the sister of Noah Morris, 18, of Corinth and Shanna Butler, 30, of Michie, Tenn. The downtown Corinth resident is currently employed as Patient Care Technician at Magnolia Regional Health Center.
BY KIMBERLY SHELTON kshelton@dailycorinthian.com
Aspiring local gymnasts and dance hopefuls are in for a treat as the Corinth Ballet announces its latest offering – a master class with one of the greats. Presented at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 3 at Turning Pointe Dance Academy, Artistic Director Valery Lantratov of the Russian National Ballet Foundation will serve as the instructor. His one-and-a-half hour class will concentrate on technique execution as well as performance. The ballet is opening its doors to any and all dance hopefuls who are training for high school, college or gymnastics and wish to work on their technique.
$436,198.63, a decrease of 2.5 percent, or about $10,700, from the same point a year earlier. Last year’s total was the highest to date for the tourism tax. In other special taxes from the area, Ripley’s tourism tax generated $25,018 for the month, rising from $21,889 a year earlier, and Tishomingo County’s tourism tax generated $1,206, compared to $1,287 a year earlier. Other sales tax results from the region (percentages rounded): • Booneville — $157,945.86 (+2%) • Burnsville — $13,863.72 (+3%) • Farmington — $2,366.27 (-23%) • Glen — $1,821.44 (+6%) • Iuka — $69,602.78 (+6%) • Kossuth — $3,173.58 (-5%) • Rienzi — $4,387.82 (-6%) • Ripley — $109,737.15 (+5%) • Tishomingo — $10,960.82 (+17%) • Tupelo — $1,736,405.63 (+8%) • Walnut — $19,177.46 (-29%)
Valery Lantratov “This isn’t a class for beginners but for those who are already accomplished dancers/gymnasts with a desire to improve the Please see BALLET | 2A
Staff photo by Kimberly Shelton
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Dolly Berry is named Most Beautiful at Corinth Junior High School.
Christ United Methodist Church of Corinth marks 100 years with a special event featuring guest speaker Rev. Clovis Butts whose father served as a minister of the church in the 1940s.
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