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Daily Corinthian Vol. 117, No. 242
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• Corinth, Mississippi • 16 pages • 1 section
Alcorn County supervisors US indictment seeking bridge replacement for $20 bill gets BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
Alcorn County will seek a major bridge replacement on Smithbridge Road. Cook Coggin Engineers will submit a proposed $3 million bridge replacement project on County Road 750 to the state aid program for consideration. The bridge crosses the Tuscumbia canal. “That’s something that has been needed for a long time,” said Board President Lowell Hinton. In other business this week: ■ The board officially released the contractor, Eutaw
Construction, and accepted the Kimberly Clark Parkway following the final inspection. Supervisors are interested, however, in the possibility of the road being maintained by the state highway department and requested that Cook Coggin Engineers look into making a formal request. ■ The board approved pay increases for some departments as proposed in the new fiscal year budget; the 911 office’s request was tabled. Sheriff Charles Rinehart proposed a 3 percent raise for sheriff’s department employees who had not had a raise in six years,
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he said. ■ Supervisors concurred with the city’s reappointment of tourism board members Pauline Sorrell and Billy Taylor. ■ The board opened bids on the sale of landfill equipment and took them under advisement for further study. ■ The board accepted Commerce National Bank’s bid of 1.55 percent on a $900,000 negotiable note. Other bids: Regions — 1.84 percent, Trustmark — 1.91 percent, BancorpSouth — 2.11 percent, Farmers & Merchants — 2.22 percent.
BY BRANT SAPPINGTON bsappington@dailycorinthian.com
An allegedly counterfeit $20 bill passed at a Corinth supermarket has led to the indictment of a Booneville woman in federal court. Jennifer Strange, 34, of Booneville, was indicted last month by a federal grand jury on one count of passing or uttering counterfeit obligations.
She entered a plea of not guilty Monday in U.S. District Court in Oxford and has been released on an unsecured bond of $5,000. Strange is accused of passing a forged $20 bill at Rogers Supermarket on or about March 11, 2013. The indictment alleges Strange knew the note was false and used the fake bill with the intent to defraud the business.
Corinth readies C Spire’s Fiber to the Home plan The City of Corinth is pushing forward its campaign to have Corinth designated as one of C Spire’s first Fiber to the Home communities. Last month, C Spire announced its “Get Fiber First” initiative, a competition to become one of C Spire’s first launch locations for ultra highspeed broadband service to the home. Speeds for C Spire’s Fiber to the Home service are expected to be 100 times faster than most current broadband services currently available in the Corinth market. The ultrafast 1 GBPS Internet connection can also provide home phone and television service over fiber optic connections directly to the home. Fiber to the home greatly increases your current internet broadband speed and capacity, allowing streaming of multiple movies on multiple devices in the home, it provides web browsing with instant page changes, no buffering, and much more. The impact of the service on the Corinth School District would be significant. Corinth School District Superintendent Dr. Lee Childress says, “Corinth Fiber to the Home will open many exciting opportunities for students and parents in the Corinth School District. This service will enable the Corinth Schools to explore many new technology opportunities for our students as we work to provide them with the technology, college, and career readiness skills they need to be successful
Staff photo by Steve Beavers
The Pink Chics — Lisa Parks (left) and Kristy Knight — are selling T-shirts in the war against breast cancer.
Pink Chics urge team effort for breast cancer awareness BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com
A pair of local women are getting the word out about breast cancer. Their call for more awareness about the dreaded disease can be found on the back of a T-shirt. Pink Chics – the two-woman Relay for Life team of Kristy Knight and Lisa Parks – is encouraging the public to become part of its team effort of Mission Pink. “The more attention we
bring to breast cancer, maybe people will take it more serious,” said Knight. “There are so many people in our community who have been affected by the cancer,” added Parks. It’s those people the two keep fighting for. “A big part why my family is really behind this is a special neighbor of ours,” said Knight. Knight’s neighbor, Larry Hardin, has Mantle cell lymphoma (MCL). “He is the best neighbor
ever,” said Knight. According to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in women. Those rates have been going down due to early detection and better treatment. Currently, there are more than 2.8 million breast cancer survivors in the United States. About one in every eight women will develop invasive breast cancer over the course Please see PINK | 3
in a global economy.” Magnolia Regional Health Center officials say access to the high-speed service would provide benefits both to their operations and to their patients and staff. “The Magnolia Regional Health Center Medical Staff and Board of Trustees made a proactive commitment to lead the implementation of several new electronic practices aimed at improving the safety of our patient population by transitioning to full Electronic Medical Record on October 1, 2013. In doing so our increased use of computer systems warrants the great need for increased bandwidth to our hospital and to our medical community. C-Spire selecting Corinth as the first launch location would be a benefit to the health and wellbeing of our patients,” said MRHC CEO Ronny Humes. Corinth Mayor Tommy Irwin, with a team of local elected officials and community leaders, attended C Spire’s Town Hall Meeting in Ridgeland last week to learn more about the competition. Mayor Irwin states, “Our goal is to put Corinth in a position to thrive and grow. C Spire’s Fiber to the Home service will allow our community to offer ultra fast broadband to our residents, putting us in select company considering only a host of cities around the country currently have such service. The possibilities are endless.” The competition consists Please see FIBER | 3
Civil War generals will come to life in living history program BY JOSEPH MILLER jmiller@dailycorinthian.com
The voices of some of the Civil War’s most well known generals will come to life in a special living history event set for Friday. “A Conversation with Civil War Generals” is sponsored by
the Friends of the Siege and Battle of Corinth and Col. Rogers Camp 321, Sons of Confederate Veterans, and will be a part of the Farmington reenactment this weekend. It will be held at the Corinth Coliseum Civic Center in downtown Corinth on Friday at 7
p.m. Event organizer Larry Mangus said the purpose of the event is for interested persons to meet these generals up close and personal through the reenactors portraying them. “They have graciously donated their time and talents for the
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program,” Mangus said. “It is a very impressive line up of generals, a Who’s Who of Civil War Generals!” With the closing of the National Parks, due to the government shutdown, a couple of cancellations of generals and the program moderator have
been made because they work for the park service and are not permitted to participate. Magus added that the best thing about this event is that admission is free and that he will be the new moderator for Please see GENERALS | 3
On this day in history 150 years ago There is activity in Corinth as the Army of Gen. Sherman is passing through to relieve Chattanooga. The infantry is stretched out from Memphis to Bear Creek. There is concern the small cavalry under Gen. Chalmers could disrupt the movement.
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