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Daily Corinthian Vol. 121, No. 248
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• Corinth, Mississippi • 18 pages • Three sections
City closes Tate Street bridge Pursuit results BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
The City of Corinth is looking at options after closing a bridge on a busy street over the weekend.
The closure of the bridge on Tate Street near Fulton Drive is expected to be lengthy, and motorists are advised to plan to take alternate routes. Of the two bridges in that area, it is
the one closest to the railroad tracks just off Fillmore Street. Public Works Director Clayton Mills said the bridge was Please see BRIDGE | 5A
in fatal crash BY BRANT SAPPINGTON
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Authorities are awaiting official identification of a suspect who died Sunday when his vehicle burst into flames after crashing while fleeing from law enforcement in Prentiss County. A Prentiss County deputy and a Booneville police officer manning a safety checkpoint on Highway 4 West inside the Booneville city limits saw the vehicle shut off its lights and
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pull into a lot just east of the checkpoint. As they went to investigate, the unidentified driver pulled back onto the highway and fled as officers attempted to make a traffic stop on him, said Prentiss County Sheriff Randy Tolar. The pursuit continued east on Highway 4 before it ended in a crash on Carolina Road where the vehicle struck a tree before catching on fire. The Please see CRASH | 2A
Major projects ahead for community college BY BRANT SAPPINGTON bsappington@dailycorinthian.com
Photo by Bill Avery
Local real estate broker Judy Glenn will return to the Historic Corinth Cemetery Tour later this month. Glenn will portray Clara Connelly Cox (1838-1933).
Cemetery tour will return for second year BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com
The stories of eight historic Corinthians will come alive later this month when the second annual Historic Corinth Cemetery Tour returns. The tour will illuminate the lives of an eclectic group of legends from Corinth’s past who
rest at the Corinth City Cemetery on Oct. 28-29. A fundraiser for the Crossroads Museum, organizers say the tour will feature five new locals presenting never-beforeheard stories featuring some very well-known historical Please see TOUR | 6A
Displaced Heritage festival set for Iuka this weekend BY L.A. STORY
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IUKA — Even a hurricane could not stop this festival. After being displaced from its traditional date due to Hurricane Harvey, the 30th Annual Iuka Heritage Festival will take place this Friday and Saturday at Iuka’s Mineral Springs Park. Originally scheduled for Labor Day Weekend, festival organizers decided to cancel due to the remnants of Hurricane Harvey — the storm which devastated areas of southeastern Texas with catastrophic flooding. Because the renowned area festival is extremely popular, as can be attested by the thousands who attend each year, Iuka Heritage Festival Committee members, have no idea what to expect in regards to vendors or the number of visi-
Northeast Mississippi Community College is building for the future as it seeks to serve the region while dealing with continued reductions in state funding. There are three major projects currently in the pipeline at the college, with another envisioned for further down the line. Work is moving toward completion on a multi-million dollar Mississippi Department of Transportation-grantfunded project renovating the sidewalks, lighting and some fencing along the college’s centerpiece boulevard and around Tiger Stadium. The work is designed to improve safety and handicap accessibility while promoting fitness through better connect-
ing the campus to Booneville’s West Side Park, and its fitness trail, on the west side of the stadium. “It’s going to really enhance not only the campus, but the community too,” said college President Ricky Ford. Work is nearly complete on the boulevard and workers are in the process of completing sidewalks and fencing around the stadium. Next up for the college is a $3 million state bond funded project to create a new extension center at Ripley. Ford said Northeast at Ripley will complete a longtime goal of the school to have a physical site in each county in its five-county service area. Plans for the project are currently awaiting approval from Please see COLLEGE | 5A
People of the Crossroads Wesley Wilbanks
tors they will receive due to the date change. However, Festival Secretary and Treasurer Sandra Medlin expressed a measure of optimism that attendance will be high and with good reason. “We really don’t know what to expect, but from all the positive comments that I’ve heard, and from the fact that we have replaced vendors we lost, I feel like it will be just as good,” said Medlin. The committee member explained they had lost some vendors due to conflicts with the rescheduled date. However, she said things worked out because they were able to replace those vendors and also garner even more. Currently, they are expecting more than 60 vendors at the festival. “I think it has worked out
By Mark Boehler Wesley Wilbanks celebrates two things in October: his third anniversary as a Corinth firefighter and his 26th birthday. A 2010 Walnut High School graduate who played both football and baseball, he went to work in area factories after graduation. After talking to some friends who were firefighters, “I decided to give it a try,” said Wilbanks, the son of Kent and Shelia Wilbanks. “I fell in love with being a fireman,” said the firefighter, who reports to Station #1 downtown. When not at work, Wilbanks loves to be outside, either team roping in rodeo, bass fishing or hunting ducks or deer. The outdoorsman also loves to ride horses and break in colts and the sport of noodling or grappling - catching catfish underwater with his bare hands.
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Corinth Mayor ES Bishop is named to a state advisory panel on the Ayers court case regarding the state’s historically black colleges and universities.
Best of the Crossroads 2017- Best Real Estate Agency
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The Alcorn County office of the MSU Extension Service hosts an open house to celebrate the opening of their new office on Levee Road.
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