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Daily Corinthian Vol. 118, No. 237
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City election to decide two races BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
With just two races left to be decided, Corinth’s municipal general election will take place on Tuesday. City Hall will be open for voting between the hours of 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. As in the primary,
all voting will take place in the truck bays of the fire department on the west side of the building, so there will be no need to enter the main portion of the building. The election will decide the races for police chief and alderman at large. Absentee voting has slowed
compared to the pace of the Democratic primary, in which the ward 4 race fueled a large number of absentees. The number topped 100 late in the week. “I’m expecting a low to moderate turnout of 1,000 to 1,500,” said City Clerk Vickie Roach. About 2,400 voted in Sep-
tember’s Democratic primary. With David Lancaster retiring from the department after nine years as chief, vying to replace him are Ralph Dance, the captain of detectives, and Fred Gooch, a patrol sergeant. Dance, running as a Democrat, first worked with Corinth
PD in the 1990s before becoming a criminal investigator for the district attorney’s office. He returned to CPD in 2002. Dance won a slim victory in the Democratic primary over another officer, Ben Gann. Please see ELECTION | 6A
City to continue cleanup of creeks BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
Corinth is getting ready for another round of herbicide spraying of vegetation along the creeks to reduce the risk of flooding in the city. The Board of Aldermen has accepted ChemPro Service’s quote of $14,771.69 for an ap-
Staff photo by Zack Steen
Alcorn County Board of Supervisors President Lowell Hinton, 5th District Supervisor Jimmy Tate Waldon and District 2 Rep. Nick Bain helped christen the three new bridges on County Road 600 in Alcorn County on Friday afternoon.
Program replaces three bridges BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com
Local and state officials along with Fifth District employees and residents chris-
tened the three new bridges opened Friday afternoon on County Road 600. The $2.1 million project funded by state grants saw the
replacement of three dilapidated bridges in the Hatchie Bottom area of west Alcorn Please see BRIDGES | 2A
plication this fall and another in the late spring or early summer of next year. Vegetation Control Services submitted a quote of $17,724.74. “As most of the canals are under control, I believe we will be successful in maintaining Please see CREEKS | 6A
Annual tour focuses on local agriculture BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com
All the attention will be on agriculture during an annual tour. The Alliance 2014 Agriculture & Forestry Tour is slated for Tuesday, October 14. The free event will begin at the Mississippi State Extension Service
Office at 2 p.m. “The tour is always a good way to showcase agriculture,” said Sandy Mitchell of the Alcorn County Soil Conservation District. Two stops will be made dur-
Staff photo by Jebb Johnston
Police chief of 9 years retiring BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
David Lancaster got the job he always wanted. “I knew at probably 15, 16 years old that when I got 21, I wanted to be a police officer,” said Corinth’s police chief for the past nine years. His time as the city’s top cop will end when the new term of office begins on Nov. 3. “I have enjoyed the job,” he said while reflecting on a law enforcement career that began in the early 1980s. “I think I enjoy the people more than anything else, anytime I have the opportunity to help someone, and I’ve been blessed with a good group of people to work with.” As the retiring chief reflects on his time with Corinth PD, Barney Fife looks on from a framed photo bearing the signa-
In just a few weeks, David Lancaster will wrap up a law enforcement career that began in 1982.
ture of Don Knotts on his office wall. But it was’t any television show that pointed him in this direction, although he admits a fondness for the small-town stylings of Andy Griffith. “I don’t know exactly what led me to the police department, but that’s what I wanted to do,” he said. After high school, he worked for CTI Manufacturing before joining the police department in 1982. He worked the radio as a dispatcher for a couple of months before going on patrol, and he graduated from the police academy in 1983. In the mid-1980s, he left the department for a little more than a year while he worked in the law enforcement division of the Mississippi State Tax Commission, working the scales. Please see LANCASTER | 6A
Index Stocks......8A Classified......4B Comics Inside State......5A
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Weather......9A Obituaries......6A Opinion......4A Sports....10A
On this day in history 150 years ago Gen. Stephen D. Lee’s corps is marching north with Hood’s army. Lee impresses upon his commanders, “the importance of having sandals made for the barefooted men of their commands out of green beef-hides.”
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