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Daily Corinthian Vol. 120, No. 12

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New president to lead school board Corinth weighs garbage contract BY ZACK STEEN

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Same faces, different places was the theme Monday at the first Alcorn School District board meeting of the year. Two-term board president Mary Coleman passed the gavel to third district board member Carroll Morton, following his nomination by Randy Wilbanks and a second by Russ Nash. Morton will serve as board president for 2016. Fifth district board member Randy Wilbanks was nominated by Nash and received a second by Morton to serve as secretary for the coming year. He will also act as vice president when Morton is absent. Newly elected Superintendent Larry B. Mitchell moved from his normal seat among the crowd to along side the board Please see SCHOOLS | 5

BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

Staff photo by Zack Steen

Newly elected Superintendent Larry B. Mitchell, new board president Carroll Morton and past board president Mary Coleman get settled into their new seats at Monday’s first 2016 meeting of the Alcorn School District.

‘Mr. Cody’ taking over as librarian Crossroads Poetry Project. He has also taught English at Corinth High School. A graduate of Northeast Mississippi Community College and the University of Mississippi, Daniel shares the love of reading that brings many patrons to the library. He likes supernatural thrillers and “armchair theology.” “Stephen King and C.S. Lewis are two of my favorite authors,” he said. “As of last month, though, I’ve been on a ‘Star Wars’ kick. I’m currently reading Paul S. Kemp’s ‘Lords of the Sith,’ which gives some of the history of Darth Vader.” He vividly remembers one trip to the library that made an impression. “I know I was in high school, and my aunt had gotten me into reading Stephen King,” said Daniel. “I remember being in the library, looking at the Stephen King books and thinking, ‘I could get any of these. Maybe even all of these. For free!’”

BY JEBB JOHNSTON jjohnston@dailycorinthian.com

The Northeast Regional Library promoted Cody Daniel to head librarian at the Corinth Library. He follows Brandon Lowrey, who left at the end of December. Daniel was a library clerk for two years before serving as assistant librarian at the Corinth branch for the last three years. Daniel enjoys meeting people while helping with their library needs. “I’ve gotten to meet people from Corinth as well as visitors from other states, sometimes traveling from around the country to do family history research or explore Corinth’s Civil War history,” he said. “It’s a pleasure to be a part of what they’re doing and to help them with whatever they need from the library.” He has also taken on the storyteller role for the preschool story time on Thursdays at 10 a.m. The kids know him as “Mr. Cody.” “I love seeing the kids,” said

Cody Daniel moved from assistant librarian to head librarian at the Corinth Library. Daniel, who grew up in Iuka and attended high school in Corinth. “Reading to children, whether a story or a poem, makes you see it differently.

They’ll react in very unexpected ways.” He often visits the local schools as a judge for book fairs or a performer with the

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The City of Corinth is considering a contract with Waste Connections to service its commercial dumpsters. The change, if eventually approved, would have no effect on residential garbage customers of the city. “It’s strictly maintaining the dumpster boxes and collecting the dumpster boxes,” said Street Commissioner Philip Verdung. “Our contract with our customers will stay just the way it is.” It would be a cost-neutral move for the city while helping to stabilize costs over time. “It will relieve us of the labor, which is important because of the labor shortage, and the cost of maintaining the boxes and maintaining the vehicles,” said Verdung. “They also utilize some technologies that will better enable us to verify services and deal with day-to-day problems such as dumpsters that are damaged. It will enable us to react to those situations better and faster.” The Board of Aldermen voted last week for negotiation of the final contract details to continue. As proposed, it is a six-year contract, but that may be changed to run through the end of the current officials’ term about three years from now with an option to renew. The city is also interested in having the option to buy back equipment from Waste Connections if the contract is terminated at some point. It costs $30,000 to $40,000 annually to maintain a supply of dumpsters for the city’s commercial base, said Verdung. If the city doesn’t hand off the servicing of the dumpsters, it faces the need to purchase another truck soon, he said.

Carpenter focuses on jobs, Mississippi flag, education BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com

(Editors note: This is part two of a four-part series featuring Crossroads area state lawmakers as they begin their new term in the Mississippi Legislature. District 2 Rep. Nick Bain, District 1 Rep. Lester “Bubba” Carpenter, District 3 Rep. Tracy Arnold, District 4 Rep. Jody Steverson and District 4 Sen. Rita Potts Parks will be featured.) JACKSON — Less than 30 minutes after being sworn into

to a third term as Disto keep our names on trict 1 House of Reprethe top of everyone’s sentative, Lester “Bublist and do whatever ba” Carpenter had is needed to continue already began working growing the area’s ecoon a new project. nomic development.” He was meeting with Carpenter also Rita Potts Parks, the shared news he had area’s state senator, just learned. about bringing yet an“I got a call that Vanother new industry to Carpenter leight RV in Burnsville the Yellow Creek Port is expanding and will in Iuka. add 40 more jobs in the coming “We are wide open,” said Car- months -- it’s this kind of news penter. “We’ve got to keep the I love to hear,” he said. momentum going. We’ve got The Burnsville native is

ready to begin serving his ninth straight year representing the people of Tishomingo and Alcorn County in Jackson. “It’s very humbling for the people to trust in my experience to be their voice for another term,” he said. “I have no plans of slowing down -- I plan to pick up right where I left off and continue to fight on bringing more good jobs and provide more options for families in my district.” The pomp and circumstance of a busy first week and a half

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