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Man on mars
Board member wants 1 school BY ZACK STEEN zsteen@dailycorinthian.com
School board approves fall fundraisers
BY JOURDAN SAMUELSON NEMCC Student Publications Staff
A slate of fall fundraisers was recently approved by the Alcorn School District Board of Education. Alcorn Central Elementary School students plan to sell 2016-17 yearbooks, sell discount cards and the PTO will host a fall festival. Alcorn Central Middle School students will pay $1 to wear a Halloween costume to school on Oct. 31. ACMS will also host a Beauty Review and cheerleaders will sell T-shirts. Alcorn Central High School FBLA will sell Krispy Kreme doughnuts to raise funds. The AC Baseball Boosters will host
BOONEVILLE — A Northeast Mississippi Community College student has his sights set on the stars. Or at least a planet. Northeast sophomore Sturgis Baxter of Corinth has been selected for a unique experience with NASA through their National Aerospace Community College Scholars Program. As part of the program, Baxter will attend a four-day workshop at Stennis Space Center near Hancock County where he will be working closely with NASA employees and other community college majors from various states on several team projects.
“I imagine this experience can only serve to inspire me, motivate me to study harder, and become a part of the solution for tomorrow’s problems,” Baxter said. For acceptance into the program, Baxter first had to submit an application along with a short essay of why he desired to enter the program, provide confirmation of academic and professional references, and complete an online course after his acceptance into the program. In a 300-word essay required on the application, Baxter wrote about his desire to use what he’s learned at Northeast and plans to later learn at a four-year university to develop, explore, and
Wrestling pioneer coming to Corinth BY BOBBY J. SMITH A barrier-breaking professional wrestling pioneer is coming to Corinth this weekend. WWE Hall of Famer Ron Simmons will be among the combatants at Halloween Monster Bash 2 on Saturday night at Crossroads Arena. Simmons’ biggest moment in the ring came on the night of Aug. 2, 1992, when he defeated Big Van Vader and became the first officially recognized black world champion in sports entertainment, paving the way for later WWE Superstars like The Rock.
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People of the Crossroads Amanda Caldwell, Corinth Staff photo by Bobby J. Smith
“I like taking care of our patients, helping them with their anxiety and pain level while they’re here,” said Amanda Caldwell, a registered nurse at the Magnolia Regional Health Center Outpatient Surgery Center. “I also offer to pray with them before their surgeries. That’s a big one to help with decreasing anxiety.” Caldwell’s job takes her though the three stages of surgery: pre-op, operating room and recovery. With her husband, Alcorn County Circuit Clerk Joe Caldwell, Amanda has three children, four grandchildren (with one on the way) and four “four-legged children” — a Maltipoo, a Blue Heeler, an English Bulldog and a Great Dane/Lab mix she adopted from the shelter. “If you ask anybody what Amanda loves, they’ll say Jesus, Joe, my daughter Morgan and our dogs,” said Caldwell.
A native of Perry, Ga., Simmons grew up playing football and went on to College Football Hall of Fame glory playing defensive nose guard under Florida State’s Coach Bobby Bowden. After a stint playing pro football in the NFL with the Cleveland Browns and in the United States Football League’s Tampa Bay Bandits, Simmons brought his talents to the world of professional wrestling. Simmons trained under Hiro Matsuda — the Japanese American trainer and wrestler who coached many of wresPlease see SIMMONS | 2
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Ken Wayne Steen of Corinth is selected to represent Mississippi as a congressional scholar at the National Young Leaders Conference in Washington, D.C.
Corinth Mayor Jerry Latch is elected to a new term, his fourth as the city’s top administrative official.
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Student sets sights on space
BY ZACK STEEN
bsmith@dailycorinthian.com
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Northeast sophomore Sturgis Baxter of Corinth has been selected for a unique experience with NASA through their National Aerospace Community College Scholars Program.
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develop new venues of computing technology and how it relates to NASA’s mission of reaching Mars by 2033. During the summer, Baxter had to submit a six-to-seven page research paper answering three-of-five questions for a final project due at the end of an online course portion required by the NCAS program. “On that essay, I wrote about the following topics: anti-matter propulsion systems for future spacecraft, how I would personally conduct a long-term mission to Mars,” Baxter said, “and ways that antimatter could be produced on a larger scale
With county school enrollment on the rise, a school board member earlier this week said he thinks Alcorn County should have only one school. Lamar Walker, who represents the third district on the Alcorn School District Board of Education, shared Superintendent Larry B. Mitchell’s updated enrollment numbers with the board on Monday. Walker then added his own idea of the direction he thinks the district should take. “I know some people were lead out of the district, but a lot has come in as well,” Walker said. “Having these numbers here, I think if Alcorn County had one school and everyone was in that school, it would make things a lot better.” According to Mitchell’s numbers, enrollment districtwide is up 16 students from last year even after the closure of two of the county’s smallest schools in Rienzi and Glen. The numbers grew from 3,252 students in 2015-16 to 3,263 students in 2016-17. Walker added, “I know everybody likes their own schools, but we have to think about what benefits the kids the most. We have to think about the education, the opportunities and the technology. All these things would help out kids more than just having a name because we went to school there.” An interim board member,
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