News Briefs From Across The State
By Monica Land
Driver ran stop sign officials say
WTVA is reporting that a Baldwyn woman and her granddaughter were killed in a car accident Saturday afternoon after a driver ran a stop sign forcing her car into traffic.
Deborah Hill, 59, died Saturday night about 8:34 p.m., and her granddaughter, 11-year-old Montana Roberts, was pronounced dead at the scene following the collision on Highway 145 and Pratts/Friendship Road.
Lee County Coroner Carolyn Green said it appeared Hill was hit by a car coming toward Highway 145 that never stopped at the stop sign. The resulting hit pushed the car into oncoming traffic, WTVA reported.
Both Hill and Roberts were wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident.
The accident remains under investigation by the Baldwyn Police Department.
Judge: City Council election winner can’t serve
A Mississippi judge has disqualified Dorothy “Dot” Glenn from joining the Greenwood City Council two days after she was sworn into office.
Circuit Judge Henry Lackey ruled on June 28 that Glenn doesn’t live in the ward from which she was elected and didn’t reside there at the time she applied to run for office.
The Greenwood Commonwealth reports that Lackey ordered a July 16 special election between Andrew Powell and Norman Smith.
Powell and Smith finished second and third, respectively, in the Democratic primary that Glenn won on May 7 with 56 percent of the votes. She didn’t have an opponent in the general election.
Amite County to buy new 911 system
Amite County supervisors expect to spend more than $206,000 to replace the county’s 911 system equipment.
The Enterprise-Journal reports the county replaces the emergency equipment every five years.
Emergency management coordinator Sam Walsh says the new system will keep recordings of emergency calls on a hard drive. The current system uses cassette tapes and cost more than $300,000 when purchased five years ago.
The 911 system purchase, authorized by supervisors also includes a new phone network for the county law enforcement complex.
Greenwood airport gets grant to widen taxiway
The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded a $270,000 grant for the Greenwood-Leflore Airport to widen its taxiway.
Airport manager Bardin Redditt told The Greenwood Commonwealth that the grant requires the airport’s owners, Leflore County and Greenwood, to match 10 percent of the money.
The grant will fund the project’s design and the first phase of construction.
Asset Management Services, a division of General Electric Capital Aviation Services, dismantles older commercial aircraft at the airport. Redditt said the existing 50-foot-wide taxiway is too narrow to accommodate some of these planes.
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