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Vol. 121, No. 190
• Corinth, Mississippi • 14 pages • One section
Sheriff wants to add more deputies The Alcorn County Board of Supervisors began to comb through the budget for the next fiscal year Wednesday morning, working through requests line-by-line.
BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
Heading into the next fiscal year, Sheriff Ben Caldwell hopes to have funds to add another deputy per shift on patrol.
Caldwell is requesting an increase that would allow him to add two deputies to the staff and increase the amount of patrolling in the county to three deputies per shift.
Elder care coming
“I just don’t feel like having only two guys out there at any one time is enough,” he said. At this time last year, deputies were handling an average of nine calls per deputy per shift.
That has increased to 12 per deputy now. Call volume is increasing and more violent crime is occurring,
Corinth plans no change in tax rate BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
Staff Photo by L.A. Story
Construction is underway for StoneRidge of Farmington Assisted Living & Alzheimer’s Unit, located on the Kimberly-Clark Parkway, across from Maranatha Baptist Church. The facility will be licensed as both assisted living and Alzheimer’s.
Assisted living facility being built Clark Parkway across from Maranatha Baptist Church, the StoneRidge of Farmington Assisted Living & Alzheimer’s Unit is expected to be open by November or December. The facility is owned by DuJuana Frazier Thompson, who is the former owner of Dogwood Plantation of Corinth,
BY L.A. STORY lastory@dailycorinthian.com
FARMINGTON — An experienced mother-daughter duo will help make the important decisions about elder care a whole lot easier. For those who may have not already seen the construction going up on the Kimberly-
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and her daughter, Louanna Montgomery. Thompson said she has come partially out of retirement to open the facility, of which Montgomery will work as administrator. When completed, StoneRidge Please see STONERIDGE | 2
The Corinth Board of Mayor and Aldermen began to dig deeper into the upcoming budget with a work session Wednesday morning. The preliminary numbers plan for no change to the property tax rate. The board reviewed funding requests from the various outside agencies, equipment purchases sought by the various city departments and the outlook for grant matches that may be needed in the next couple of years. One action taken during the meeting is to require the parks and recreation department to manage its own payroll beginning Oct. 1. It is something the board has wanted the department to take on for the last few years to lessen the workload at City Hall. The board also wants the park’s audits up to date by Jan. 1. The preliminary numbers have most of the outside agencies held at level funding. The North Mississippi Chapter of the American Red Cross submitted a request for $9,215,
but the mood of the board continues to be that the agency will get no allocation from the city unless it has a physical presence in Corinth. The agency received no funding from the city in the current budget. An arrangement a couple of years ago for the Red Cross to provide volunteer staffing in an office at City Hall did not materialize. City Clerk Vickie Roach said one item to watch in the coming year is the Oak Lane and Tishomingo drainage basins project, which could require the city to front as much as $2 million and be reimbursed later. A short-term loan could be needed. The city will wrap up the budget for fiscal 2018, which begins Oct. 1, by mid-September. In an item separate from the budget, Alderman Michael McFall requested the city take a look at a section of North Madison Street near East Shiloh Road where he said cars are moving into the opposite lane to avoid bumpiness and creating a dangerous situation.
Eagle Scout project helps animal shelter for their puppy room. The platforms were old and moldy with water damage. They were collapsing to the floor,” said the Scout. “At that point, I knew in my heart this is what we needed to do as my Eagle Project – we needed to help the shelter.” A major milestone for all Boy Scouts, the Eagle project serves as the ultimate “application phase” of what a Boy Scout has learned and should highlight leadership, responsibility, managing projects and applying the Scout Oath – “to help other people.” In early July, Nate and his dad got to work building four new large dog cage platform tables. They used 2 by 4s to build the frame and 4 by 4s for the legs. Large plywood sheets were used for the platform tops. The Drewry’s also added primer and
BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com
One local Boy Scout has given back to an organization close to his heart. Fourteen-year-old Nate Drewry recently completed his Eagle Scout Project by helping the Corinth-Alcorn Animal Shelter in an area where they desperately needed help. “The animal shelter has always been somewhere my family and I had thought about,” said Drewry, who entered the ninth grade last week at Corinth High School. “We adopted a dog from there when I was younger and knew they could use help.” Drewry and his parents, Katie and Steve, reached out to the shelter’s volunteer director Charlotte Doehner in June to learn their needs. “We meet with Mrs. Charlotte and found out they really needed new dog cage platform tables
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Staff photo by Zack Steen
Corinth-Alcorn Animal Shelter Volunteer Director Charlotte Doehner thanks local Boy Scout Nate Drewry for his recent donation to the shelter. Nate and his dad, Steve, build four large platform tables to be used in the puppy room at the shelter.
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