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• Corinth, Mississippi • 16 pages • One Section
Expansion grant receives approval BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com
FARMINGTON — More sewer expansion is coming up in Farmington with the aid of a $150,000 grant. Mayor Dale Fortenberry said the town has been notified it will receive a Small Municipal and Limited Population Counties Grant Program award in
that amount for extension of service to an additional 30 to 40 homes in the County Road 119 and County Road 130 area. This includes a new subdivision with about 10 homes and could also help spur development on a 40-acre site, the mayor said. “We’ve got the plans drawn and on the table. As soon as
“We’ve got the plans drawn and on the table. As soon as we get the OK to start, we will advertise for bids.” Dale Fortenberry Mayor we get the OK to start, we will advertise for bids,” said Fortenberry.
The grant requires no local match. With the recently complet-
“We are happy to be back at work and to welcome visitors back to their national park. Autumn is a particularly special season to enjoy all that the national parks have to offer.”
ed Pine Valley expansion and the upcoming expansion, the town will have extended service to more than 95 percent of the area that was originally condemned by the health department, he said. The Pine Valley project was funded through an EPA Please see GRANT | 3A
Morning collision leaves 3 injured
John Bundy
BY BRANT SAPPINGTON
Superintendent
bsappington@dailycorinthian.com
Shiloh Military Park reopens Staff reports
The Crossroads area’s Civil War gems are open to the public once again. Shiloh National Military Park, including the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center and all facilities at the Shiloh battlefield, reopened Thursday with the resolution of the federal government shutdown. The park had been closed and all workers furloughed since Oct. 1 when the federal government shutdown all but essential operations due a lack of an appropriations bill passed by Congress and approved by the president. Approximately 800,000 Please see SHILOH | 3A
Staff photo by Steve Beavers
Queen McKenzie Corinth High School Senior McKenzie Carson waves to the crowd during the CHS Homecoming Parade on Thursday. Carson was voted queen for this season and was crowned during last night’s contest with Itawamba.
An early morning crash Friday at Rienzi Crossing that left three people injured remains under investigation by the Mississippi Highway Patrol. Joshua Jacobs, 24, of Booneville was attempting to cross U.S. Highway 45 traveling west from Mississippi 356 in a 1991 International bob truck when he apparently pulled into the path of a northbound 2001 Dodge Ram pickup truck, said MHP Troop F spokesperson Trooper Ray Hall. The driver of the Dodge, 46-year-old Sammy McCurry of Pontotoc, was transported by ambulance to Magnolia Regional Health Center in Corinth with minor injuries. He was wearing a seatbelt. Two passengers in McCurry’s vehicle also sustained injuries. One was airlifted from the scene to The Med in Memphis, Tenn. with serious injuries and the other was transported by ambulance to MRHC with moderate injuries, said Hall. Jacobs was not injured. Hall reported neither of the passengers in McCurry’s vehicle were wearing seatbelts. The names of the passengers were not available late Friday afternoon.
Local Boys & Girls Club celebrates with reception BY STEVE BEAVERS sbeavers@dailycorinthian.com
A place to feel safe and learn. The Boys and Girls Club has been that and much more for many children through the years. “The club is very special in this area,” said board member Grover Hardin. “This is a place were children can develop themselves.” Hardin stressed the importance of the club during the kickoff of the Lights on Afterschool program. “The Boys Club is where minds begin to be shaped,” he said. “We see our future here … our vision is to grow in support and stature were kids can always grow and be safe.”
“More than 8,000 sites across the nation are sending the message tonight that afterschool is key to children’s success,” added Boys Club Corinth Unit Director Christy Grice. “We must keep the lights on and the doors open after school.” Project Attention Director Shirley Rolland agrees. “For some children every day can be a dark one, but Project Attention is a light in a dark world,” said Rolland. “Whatever the children need we try to give them and have been doing it since 1992.” Special awards were also handed out to four local am-
Staff photo by Steve Beavers
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Boys and Girls Club volunteers Chris Kelly (from left), Kim Ratliff, Kijana Hurd and John Taylor perform a skit to kick off the Light on Afterschool program.
Index Stocks........8 Classified......14 Comics........ 7 State........ 5
Weather........9 Obituaries........ 6 Opinion........4 Sports...... 12
On this day in history 150 years ago Union cavalry in Virginia under Gen. Kilpatrick suffer a humiliating defeat by Gen. J.E.B. Stuart. The fight at Buckland Mills is thereafter known at the “Buckland Races,” as the Federal troopers are chased at a gallop for over five miles.