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Daily Corinthian Vol. 118, No. 116
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• Corinth, Mississippi • 16 pages • 1 section
28 apply for park director position BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
A big stack of resumes for the job of park director awaits the Parks and Recreation Commission. Butch Carmichiel, commission chairman, said 28 resumes are in hand for the position. The deadline to apply was May 1.
The commission plans to begin interviewing candidates next week. “We’ve got some really good candidates,” said Carmichiel. “It’s going to be a really hard decision for us to make.” He expects it will take a few weeks for the commission to work through the resumes and
conduct interviews. The hire will be made by the park commission and does not require approval of the city aldermen or county supervisors. The commission wanted candidates with a bachelor’s degree in an appropriate field such as parks and recreation or public administration and with at least four years
of administrative experience in the parks and recreation setting. Outgoing director Todd Witt had used some vacation time and technically had his last day as a park employee on Friday after 25 years on the job as he begins a new career as a sales representative for a manufacturer in the shooting, hunting
and outdoor gear industry. In addition to managing the day-to-day duties, the new park director will come on board at a time of major expansion for the park. Clearing and grubbing work is in progress by Parsons Earthworks of Iuka, and Carmichiel said that work is expected to be complete by June 9.
Sales tax revenue rising
Dollars and Sense Moore serves as extension finance agent BY KIMBERLY SHELTON
BY JEBB JOHNSTON
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(Editor’s Note: In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Mississippi State University Extension Service, the Daily Corinthian will be featuring staff in the Alcorn County office.) The drive and desire to help others comes naturally to Mary Linda Moore. For the past 16 years, the Mississippi State graduate has worked as the Financial Management Agent for the Alcorn County branch of the Mississippi State University Extension Service. “She and I started working at the Extension Service about six months apart. My first impression of her was that she was a very intelligent and serious person. She is very intelligent and serious when it comes to her job, but what most people don’t know is that she is also a big cut-up and a prankster,” said friend and co-worker Misti Crum. “If you find all your stuff tapes to your desk or get locked in the file room with the lights turned off, you can pretty much
Staff Photo by Kimberly Shelton
The mid-May sales tax deposit into the city coffers of Corinth continued an upward trend. Reflecting sales made in local establishments during the month of March, the latest deposit is $517,472.12, rising 6 percent, or about $30,000, from the same month a year earlier. Collections across the state for the month rose 3 percent, while results split across neighboring northeast Mississippi cities, with six gains and five decreases. Corinth’s year-to-date sales tax total is $3.796 million, a 4 percent increase from a year ago. Four more deposits will go on the books in the current fiscal year. Cities receive 18.5 percent of sales tax collected within their boundaries, and those funds make up the majority of the city’s operating revenue. The 2 percent tourism tax generated $103,753.10 for the month, a gain of almost 2 percent, or about $1,800. For the fiscal year, the tax has yielded
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Mary Linda Moore has been a helpful and friendly face at the Mississippi State University Extension Service office in Corinth for more than 16 years.
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Kossuth High graduate pursues musical dream in New Orleans BY KIMBERLY SHELTON kshelton@dailycorinthian.com
Packing up and moving from Corinth to Slidell Louisiana was hard for Jordan Prince. “My father accepted a position with a construction company and was gone all the time. So, in order to bring the family back together, we relocated to be with him,” said Prince who was 19 years old when he left the city of his birth. Now an indie singer/songwriter based in New Orleans, the Kossuth High School graduate is pursuing a career in music and film. “I am currently studying film at the University of New Orleans and hope to finish college this year. I am also involved with an independent film company called Work-
Indie singer/songwriter Jordan Prince takes the stage.
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In addition to the support of my family and friends, I owe everything I am and everything I will become to Top Shelf Records because it was there I discovered the music and films that inspired me.” Jordan Prince light Pictures,” said Prince whose friends Bruno Doria and Sarah Smith founded the company. “I work with them on film sets, writing shorts, directing and writing music for promo videos or ads.” Since leaving Corinth, the singer has played for the national independent arts organization, RAW (Natural Born Artists) and the Louisianabased television program LA
South. He recently performed for the international video series for musicians, Balcony TV, where he won the Global Rumble twice in a row (besting such artists as Edward Sharpe, Deer Tick and Brendan Benson) and was the first artist to perform on the freshly launched New Orleans ediPlease see PRINCE | 2
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Gen. Sherman continues his campaign of maneuver by threatening the flanks of the Army of Tennessee. Johnston is once again forced to withdraw closer to Atlanta or risk being cut off from the city he is defending.
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