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No one hurt in Levee Road house fire BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com
Fourteen Corinth firefighters battled a Levee Road house fire for more than four hours on Sunday night. The 4,500-square-foot structure was deemed a total loss by Fire Chief Todd Welch. “It was a large fire,” he said. “Luckily no one was home and there were no injuries.” All four city units responded
to the blaze shortly after 11:35 p.m. “Several neighbors called 911 about the fire, but when the first trucks arrived, the fire had already started coming through the top. The roof had already caved into the second floor,” said Welch. “We pretty much did a defensive attack and sent no one into the home. We battled the fire from the outside.”
The chief said his firefighters used an “aerial truck to draw the fire down” at the two-story brick home located across from Dogwood Plantation. Units remained on the scene until early morning. Welch said he was unsure how the blaze started. He believed it started somewhere on the second floor. The state fire marshall and the Corinth Police Department
are both involved in an investigation to determine the cause of the fire. Welch said the Sunday night blaze was the fourth house fire inside the city limits in the past two months. “It’s been a tough few weeks,” he said. Most of the fires have been accidental or started because of some kind of electrical issue within the structure.
“Several neighbors called 911 about the fire, but when the first trucks arrived, the fire had already started coming through the top.” Todd Welch Fire chief
Judge delays Epps sentencing Associated Press
JACKSON — A federal judge has again delayed sentencing in a bribery case for the former head of the Mississippi prison system. U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate on Monday set May 24 as Christopher Epps’ new sentencing date. It is the latest of several delays in an extensive investigation centered on Epps. He pleaded guilty in February 2015 to charges of money
Staff photos by Bobby J. Smith
Employees at Sprint Mart #27, located on U.S. Highway 72 East across from the Wine Barn, dressed as Cruella de Vil and her Three Dalmatians, above. The gang having some Halloween fun included (from left) Connie Oaks of Iuka, Shaina Bryant of Selmer, Tenn., Melissa O’Brian of Corinth, and Megan Patterson of Corinth.
BY KIMBERLY SHELTON kshelton@dailycorinthian.com
Sharing the bounty of their harvest, the Easom Community Center reopened its Community Garden on Monday. Now open for the season, the garden is available to individuals willing to share their turnip and mustard green pickings equally with the Easom Outreach Foundation’s
Meanwhile, a Light Green Crayola (a.k.a. Corinth’s Lynn Norman) was ready for work at the Sprint Mart #27 on Monday, left. Sprint Mart #27 is located on U.S. Highway 72 across from the Wine Barn.
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Hot Meal’s Program which provides a daily hot meal Monday through Friday, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. for qualified individuals enrolled in the program. Currently in its fourth year of operation, the garden was created to supplement the hot meals program with fresh Please see GARDEN | 2
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Cemetery tour a success For the Daily Corinthian
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Community Garden reopens for business
Halloween fun
Good stories never die. Organizers are all smiles following a “tremendous showing” at the Historic Corinth Cemetery Tour held on Saturday and Sunday at the Corinth City Cemetery. “Pretty much every tour was overflowing with people,” said Crossroads Museum Executive Director Brandy Steen. “We knew a lot of people wanted this event to return, but we had no idea we would have such a tremendous showing.” A fundraiser for the nonprof-
laundering and filing false tax returns. Prosecutors say Epps took $1.47 million in bribes. He faces up to 23 years in prison and is forfeiting $1.7 million in assets. Epps was Mississippi’s longest-serving corrections commissioner, holding the job a dozen years and retiring in November 2014, a day before indictments against him were
Destiny Downs, Corinth
it, this past weekend’s two-day cemetery tour netted the museum more than $2,000 in profit. The tour, held at the city’s oldest cemetery, featured some of Corinth’s greatest legends portrayed by locals. Actors and actresses included Judy Glenn as Clara Connelly Cox, Gerald McLemore as Dr. William A. Johns, Sarah Parson as Eleanor Catherine Curlee, Farmington Mayor Dale Fortenberry as Shelby Hammond Curlee, Please see TOUR | 2
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Twenty-year-old Corinth resident Destiny Downs loves to sing — especially at church. “I’ve always wanted to sing,” she said. “It’s something I do to worship the Lord.” Downs attends Gospel Tabernacle. In May she married Tanner Downs, a young pastor at Gospel Tabernacle. The Downses are expecting their first child. “We have a little girl on the way,” she said. For the last five years Downs has worked for her mother, Sherah Moss, at Sweet Sensations (“The SoCo Bake Shop”) in downtown Corinth. At work she helps her mom with the cooking, cleans up around the store, waits on customers and operates the cash register. “I pretty much do it all,” she said.
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Tri State Bingo opens in the Mall of Corinth. The operation supports the Mississippi Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse.
The Alcorn County chapter of the American Red Cross closes its local office after 88 years in Corinth.
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