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• Corinth, Mississippi • 16 pages • 1 section
Kimberly-Clark road finally opens
Staff photo by Jebb Johnston
Officials gathered Friday morning to cut the ceremonial ribbon to commemorate the long-awaited opening of the Kimberly-Clark Access Road. Board of Supervisors President Lowell Hinton cut the ribbon and workers removed the barricades and opened the new road to traffic.
Four-mile, $11 million access links industry to US 72 BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
With the promise of safer roads in surrounding areas and the possibility of development in a swath of rural Alcorn County, the Kimberly-Clark Access Road officially opened Friday morning. Cutting through rolling pasture land, the link from U.S. Highway 72 to the KimberlyClark plant on Kendrick Road will provide a route for big
trucks delivering the 1,500 monthly shipments to and from the plant, removing them from county roads and busy streets in Corinth. “Those trucks today — 100 percent of those trucks travel Kendrick Road and almost all travel Harper Road,” said Vince Overholt, plant manager at the nonwovens facility. “In the future, we do see that the majority of the trucks that are on Harper Road — specifically Harper
Road south of Proper — that traffic will be gone eventually as the road picks up momentum and the different shippers realize that it’s open. We are certainly going to be putting out the word.” In Farmington, officials hope it will ease traffic on the busy Central School Road. The access road’s speed limit is 55 mph south of Farmington Road and 35 mph to the north, which is more populated.
The wide open spaces could bring some growth for Alcorn County’s second-largest city. “I think it’s going to be a boon for Farmington,” said Mayor Dale Fortenberry. “We’re going to have a lot more visitors than we’ve had before with the extra traffic.” The new road has given the town its first four-way stop at the Farmington Road intersection. “We’re asking people to be careful while everybody gets
used to the intersections,” he said. “We haven’t had a fenderbender yet.” The project had a number of snags through the years, and several speakers during the opening ceremony credited Supervisor Gary Ross with reigniting the project at a time when it had come to a standstill. Ross, who was board president at the time, recalled a Please see ROAD | 2
Contractor fixes KC’s event showcases talent flooding problems in justice center BY BOBBY J. SMITH
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BY BOBBY J. SMITH bjsmith@dailycorinthian.com
The Emergency 911 office at the Alcorn County Justice Center experienced some mild flooding last week, but the problems have since been fixed, according to officials. The problems started when E911 staff began noticing floors were damp. The water came from a leak under the false-floor where the wiring runs. “It really could’ve caused some problems,” said Warden Doug Mullins. Before the damage became too severe, the contractor that built the facility, Flintco (of Oklahoma City) was brought
in. Flintco made the necessary repairs and, after a cleanup, the office was ready to get back to business. “It wasn’t anything too bad,” Mullins said. “It didn’t tear up anything.” Flintco recently completed work on a list of items for the facility, including ceiling leaks and miscellaneous other issues. Alcorn County law enforcement entities moved into the new Justice Complex in 2011. The 148,000-foot facility contains the sheriff’s department, the police department, a Mississippi Department of Corrections facility and the Alcorn County Detention Center.
The KC’s Espresso Summer Block Party concert series continued Thursday with performances by a lineup of young crossroads area musicians. The concerts give the area’s young people a positive environment to hang out and listen to local bands, and gives local bands a venue to showcase their talents. “It’s all about the young people,” said KC’s owner/operator Melinda Billingsley. “We do this once a month, but I’d like to do it twice a month if we had enough people involved to do it.” First up was The Harlem State, a young local rock band formed by Chase Strachan, Justin Holmes, David Wilbanks and Alan Clemmer. The Harlem State is a blues- and jazz-influenced, riff-based rock band. The guys chose the name for the band because so much
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Staff photo by Bobby J. Smith
Ben Ricketts plays to the crowd during July’s Summer Block Party concert at KC’s Espresso. of the music it is influenced by came out of the New York City neighborhood of Harlem, they said. Next up was 17-year-old singer-songwriter Bria Collins, who will be a senior at Tishomingo County High School when
school starts. Collins played a solo acoustic set of her original tunes, including “My One and Only.” Collins has been playing guitar for two years and writing songs for less than a year, but Please see TALENT | 2
On this day in history 150 years ago Col. Phil Sheridan’s cavalry captures a Confederate captain bearing 30 personal letters. From the letters, it is discovered that Bragg’s army is moving from Tupelo to Chattanooga. Union reinforcements begin to leave the following morning for the Army of the Ohio.