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• Corinth, Mississippi • 22 pages • Two sections
Public office pay, qualifications, duties Summaries given of county offices
duties and pay associated with each office follows.
ary: Fee-based with a cap of $90,000.
Chancery clerk
Circuit clerk
BY JEBB JOHNSTON
Qualifications: Qualified elector. Duties: As the clerk of the Board of Supervisors and the chancery court, the clerk is responsible for maintaining the records of both. Sal-
Qualifications: Qualified elector. Duties: The circuit clerk is the chief officer of the circuit court and the chief elections officer of the county. The clerk maintains the voter rolls
jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
Dozens of candidates are in the hunt for county office this year. A look at the qualifications,
and assists the election commissioners in purging the voter rolls. The clerk works with other election officials to conduct primary and general elections. Salary: Fee-based with a cap of $90,000.
Constable Qualifications:
elector in the county and appropriate district. Duties: Constables are charged with keeping the peace by assisting in executing the criminal laws of the state for the justice court. Compensation: Constables receive $35 for every process, warrant or citation served, plus $1,800
Qualified
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Board to consider calendar changes BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
Gabrielle Boyd shows her new book cover in a television studio.
Writer creates chaos in novel BY KIMBERLY SHELTON kshelton@dailycorinthain.com
Excitement and intrigue collide in “Howls of Chaos,” a fantasy/science fiction/romance novel penned by Iuka native Gabrielle “Chenee” Boyd. “I usually tell people the book is a supernatural fantasy fiction. It is full of mystery, suspense and adventure. Many people who have read it say it catches your attention right away,” said Boyd, a broadcast journalism major at the University of Southern Mississippi. “In the book you have college kids, a clever sheriff, werewolves and locals. It also takes place in a
southern mythological town.” Conjuring images of beautiful, intelligent creatures and their lycanthropic adversaries, the book relates the story of Alexsys, a young, outgoing werewolf who moves back to her hometown of Chaosville, along with her friendly pack, centuries after leaving the area. Once settled she and her somewhat possessive boyfriend open up a business in an attempt at normalcy only to find their plans derailed by a pack of rogue werewolves hell-bent on picking off the locals one-byone and claiming the territory as their own.
Finding her new life in jeopardy, Alexsys investigates the grisly murders only to uncover shocking secrets from the past. Outnumbered by rogue werewolves, she and her pack team up with the resourceful county sheriff and other locals to bring order back to Chaosville. “All of the characters are simply pulled from my imagination. I would say I can relate to most of them, especially the main character and a couple of her friends. It’s like each character has a small portion of me in them,” said the 25-year-old Please see CHAOS | 2A
Tree giveaway scheduled for Friday BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com
Friday will be a lucky day for tree enthusiasts. The Alcorn County Extension Service, Forestry Commission and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service are teaming to hand out close to 7,000 trees during the annual giveaway at the Alcorn County Courthouse. “We don’t know what kind of hardwood will be available,
but there will be some along with plenty of pine,” said Sandy Mitchell with the Alcorn County Soil Conservation District. “Professionals will also be on hand to tell folks how to plant the trees.” The last two tree giveaways were held at the Mississippi State Extension Service. “Having the tree giveaway at the courthouse is a lot more convenient for most people,” added Mitchell.
The event is set for 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. School programs for 5th graders will be held next week to emphasize importance of forestry, according to Mitchell. The National Arbor Day is the last Friday in April, but most southern states celebrate the event in other months. Mississippi’s Arbor Day celebration is always scheduled for the second Friday in February.
Index Stocks......8A Classified......4B Comics......2B State......5A
Weather....10A Obituaries......6A Opinion......4A Sports....12A
The Corinth School District will take a look at shaking up the traditional school calendar in future years. It will not happen in the next school year, but the district’s board of trustees agreed on Monday to give further study to a proposed calendar that would start around the usual time but would extend the school year into mid-June with several extended breaks inserted into the calendar. The district will gather feedback on it and the two proposed traditional calendars. The school board will likely adopt next year’s calendar in March. In the two proposals being considered for 2015-2016, one has the first student day as Monday, Aug. 6, and end-
ing with exams May 17-19, with graduation on May 20. The other begins a week later on Aug. 13 and ends with exams May 24-26, with graduation on May 27. Presenting the nontraditional calendar to the board, Superintendent Lee Childress said it’s time to give some thought to a different approach. “As you all know, we have had considerable discussions about literacy issues,” he said. “We’ve had considerable discussions about summer loss and the effect that children being off for an eight to nine week period over the summer has both from the summer to the beginning of school, but also the cumulative loss that appears over a period of time.” The nontraditional draft Please see CALENDAR | 6A
City eyes busing moves BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
The Corinth School District is looking at busing students by age groups to curtail discipline issues. “One of the major discipline issues that [administrators] deal with on a daily basis is bus discipline,” Superintendent Lee Childress told the district’s board of trustees Monday. Often, the conflict involves students from different schools — a middle school student fighting with an elementary school student, for
example. Childress said administrators believe it could help to separate the busing for each school. The elementary, middle and high schools would each have a certain number of buses assigned to them. “The bus discipline is taking a lot of our administrator’s time to deal with,” the superintendent said. “Plus, in a lot of cases, it sometimes starts on the bus and carries over into the school and we then Please see BUSING | 6A
Corinth aldermen accept bid Staff Reports
In a special session Tuesday afternoon, the Corinth Board of Aldermen accepted a bid on concrete work for a downtown alley. 3D Construction Co. had the low bid of $3,100 for a portion of the alley, bringing the total cost to $12,420. The area is described as the alley between Cruise Street and the railroad
and between Franklin and Fillmore Streets, where building improvements including a new restaurant location are in progress. The concrete work was deemed necessary for truck access, including city sanitation. The board then entered executive session, citing a possible litigation matter.
On this day in history 150 years ago Sherman’s army severs the Augusta & Charleston Railroad, cutting off reinforcements from Charleston, South Carolina. A Union army under Gen. John Schofield arrives off Wilmington, North Carolina and prepares for a strike inland up the Cape Fear River.
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