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Aldermen vote to save some trees at Garan site

Board also hears concerns
about speeding traffic on
East Gillespie Street
BY TESS VRBIN
tvrbin@cdispatch.com
At least some of the 64 pine trees that
have stood for decades at the intersec-
tion of Highway 12 and Industrial Park
Road will be saved after aldermen voted
narrowly Tuesday that they couldn’t all
be removed.
The 4-3 vote declined a request from
developer Mark Castleberry, who plans
to build a retail center at the current
Garan Manufacturing site. The board
instead unanimously approved Castle-
berry’s request to install “an attractive
privacy fence” lined with shrubbery on
the north side of the property and to
plant 75 new, smaller trees of a variety
of species throughout and around the
parking lot.
Sandra Sistrunk of Ward 2, Jason
Walker of Ward 4, Hamp Beatty of Ward
5 and Vice Mayor Roy A. Perkins of
Ward 6 voted against Castleberry’s orig-
inal request. Aldermen Ben Carver of
Ward 1, David Little of Ward 3 and Hen-
ry Vaughn of Ward 7 voted for it.
The board’s decision will save “a good
number” of trees, which is “not ideally
what the people who value trees in town
would want, but it’s something,” Beatty
said Tuesday.
Beatty previously told The Dispatch
he wanted the development to save at
least some of the trees, especially be-
cause Castleberry will use taxpayer
Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff
funds via a $3 million tax-increment fi-
Developer Mark Castleberry, right, explains to the Starkville board of aldermen his
nancing plan to build infrastructure at reasons for requesting all 64 pine trees be removed from the current Garan Manu-
the site. facturing site on Highway 12, where he will build a retail shopping center in the next
Developers must preserve at least year. The board denied his request 4-3, and Castleberry said he will adjust the site
See ALDERMEN, 3A plans accordingly.

SAFE SOCIALIZING Lowndes

supervisors
reject LCSD tax
request, reduce
overall tax rate
by 2 mills
Hudson: Board prepares
lawsuit against school
district’s ‘improper’
request
BY YUE STELLA YU
syu@cdispatch.com

Isabelle Altman/Dispatch Staff

L O W N D E S
From left, freshmen Honors students Karina Garcia, Kaitlyn George, Caitlyn Craft and Ayesha Celestin chat in the gazebo on COUNTY — In a
Mississippi University for Women’s campus Tuesday afternoon. They all said they’re enjoying their freshman year of college unanimous vote Tues-
so far, despite the COVID-19 pandemic which has forced students to wear masks and socially distance on campus. “It’s the day morning, Lown-
best that it can be right now,” Craft said. des County Board of
Supervisors rejected
the county school
district’s request for
$27.4 million in local Hudson
property tax funds

Columbus moves forward on series of project developments
Council passes FY 2021 budget with
no millage increase, projects $8K surplus
BY YUE STELLA YU
syu@cdispatch.com
COLUMBUS — Co-
lumbus City Council voted
Tuesday to approve a series
of project developments,
including a grant applica-
tion for pedestrian access
improvements, bid adver-
tisement for the city’s latest
series of street paving and
construction work on Lee
Park.
The council unanimous-
ly approved the application
of a Transportation Alter-
native Program grant from
Mississippi Department of
Transportation, which would
cover most of a roughly $1.2
million project to install pe-
destrian islands and improve
sidewalks along Fifth Street
from the Magnolia Bowl to
Ninth Avenue, City Engineer
Kevin Stafford said. The
project would require an up
to $300,000 match from the
city, he said, and the actual
expense will be spread be-
tween the next two fiscal
years.
The council also gave
Stafford the greenlight to
seek bids on the latest series
of street paving, for which
the city agreed to issue a
$6.5 million bond. The city
has yet to vote on the pay-
back option of the bond,
which could be repaid in 10,
12 or 15 years.
Stafford said he now has a
list of more than 100 streets
that are in
poor condition
and in need
of paving, and
he hopes to
finalize the
list with each
council mem- Stafford
ber by the
end of September. The esti-
mated construction cost, he
said, is roughly $5.6 million.
Neel-Schaffer, which is con-
tracted as the city’s engi-
neering company, will also
be paid 5 percent of the con-
struction cost.
The council also unani-
mously voted Tuesday night
to update the contract on the
renovation at Lee Park to in-
clude additional work after
the construction crew discov-
ered rotten wooden boards
across the playground. That
would generate an additional
for Fiscal Year 2021
and instead agreed to
allocate roughly $3.5
cost of $7,300 to the city.
The original contract was
million less than the
requested figure.
to power wash and re-stain
the wooden surfaces at the
Deeming LCSD’s
request “improper,”
park, which cost $13,800, supervisors will also Allison
Park Director Greg Lewis file a lawsuit in Chan-
told the council. The addi- INSIDE
cery Court against n OUR VIEW:
tional work would replace
the school district Both sides
rotten boards within fences,
and seek a judge rul- valid in county
swings and gates, he said, tax squabble;
ing over the issue.
and the bathroom needed state should
While the original clarify.
pressure washing as well.
request would have Page 6A
hiked up the school
Budget approval district tax rate by roughly 4.5 mills
Also on Tuesday, the to 51.1 mills, the Tuesday decision
council adopted a $23 mil- dropped the tax rate for FY 2021
lion city budget for Fiscal by almost 2 mills to 44.76. With the
Year 2021 with no millage county millage rate remaining the
rate increase. Ward 5 Ste- same, the overall tax rate for FY
phen Jones was absent when 2021 (county and school district
the vote was cast. millage rate combined) will drop by
Due to a projected 11-per- roughly 2 mills to 88.02 in the up-
cent drop in sales tax reve- coming fiscal year.
nue, the budget is roughly Property taxes are measured in
$1 million smaller than the mills, which represents a certain
See COUNCIL, 8A See SUPES, 8A

WEATHER FIVE QUESTIONS CALENDAR LOCAL FOLKS PUBLIC

1 What 1960s TV family includes Go- Through Sept. 18 MEETINGS
mez, Morticia, Wednesday and Pugsley? ■ SAAC Fall Juried Exhibit:
Sept. 21:
2 What was the first product for the Starkville Housing
Newman’s Own brand? Starkville Area Arts Council presents
Authority board
3 What 18th-century fountain yields “The Light That Persists: Missis-
meeting, 3 p.m.,
around $4,000 a day for Italian chari- sippi Artists in 2020,” MSU Visual
101 W. Wood St.
ties? Arts Center, 808 University Drive,
4 Which of the following is not a real Sept. 22: OCH
Annabelle Brislin Starkville and virtually at starkvil-
animal — cookiecutter shark, poison Regional Medical
Second grade, Annunciation learts.net. Works are for sale.
dart frog, smiling platypus or star-nosed Center Board of

80 Low 70
mole? Trustees meeting,
High 5 What cooking technique calls for Thursday, Sept. 24 4 p.m.
Cloudy, rain likely
searing and then simmering the main ■ Downtown Art Walk: Main Oct. 2: Starkville
ingredient, usually meat? Street Columbus and the Columbus Board of Aldermen
Full forecast on
page 3A. Answers, 8B Arts Council present an art walk work session, 10
downtown from 5:30-7:30 p.m. a.m., City Hall
Local artists in participating stores Oct. 5: Oktibbeha
INSIDE and outdoors will show original work. County Board
Masks are required, and don’t forget of Supervisors
Classifieds 7,8B Food 5B
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Pelosi: House to stay in session

until COVID-19 rescue pact
Democrats from swing districts have signaled
discontent with a standoff that could force them
to face voters without delivering more aid
BY ANDREW TAYLOR
The Associated Press
WA S H I N G T O N
— Speaker Nancy Pe-
losi said Tuesday the
House will remain in
session until lawmak-
ers deliver another
round of COVID-19
relief, a move that
Pelosi
came as Democrats
from swing districts signaled dis-
content with a standoff that could
force them to face voters without
delivering more aid.
“We are committed to staying
here until we have an agreement,
an agreement that meets the needs
of the American people,” Pelosi said
on CNBC.
Pelosi told her Democratic col-
leagues on a morning conference
call that “we have to stay here until
we have a bill.” That’s according to
a Democratic aide speaking on con-
dition of anonymity but authorized
to quote her remarks.
The move highlighted the extent
to which coronavirus legislation
has settled into a kind of suspend-
ed animation in the final legislative
weeks before the November elec-
tion. Both parties insist they want
action, keeping the idea of new re-
lief alive, but negotiations between
Democrats and the White House
remain frozen, with both sides en-
trenched in their positions.
Pelosi’s comments came as mod-
erate Democrats, many from areas
won by President Donald Trump
four years ago, signed on to a $1.5
trillion rescue package endorsed
by the bipartisan Problem Solvers
Caucus, a group of about 50 law-
makers who seek common solu-
tions to issues.
The plan contains many ele-
ments of COVID rescue packages
devised by both House Democrats
and Republicans controlling the
Senate, including aid to schools,
funding for state and local gov-
ernments, and renewal of lapsed
COVID-related jobless benefits.
The price tag is significantly less
than the $2.2 trillion figure cited by
Pelosi but it’s also well above an
approximately $650 billion Senate
GOP plan that failed last week due
to Democratic opposition.
Talks between Pelosi and the
Trump administration broke down
last month and there had been
little optimism they would rekin-
dle before Election Day. And last
week, Senate Democrats scuttled a
scaled-back GOP coronavirus res-
cue package.
Pelosi has maintained a hard
line in negotiations and has been
at odds with White House chief of
staff Mark Meadows. She orches-
trated passage of a $3.4 trillion
COVID rescue package back in
May, but the effort was immediate-
ly dismissed by Senate Republicans
and the Trump administration.
Tuesday’s remarks, said Pelosi
spokesman Drew Hammill, don’t
mean that the speaker is adopting a
more flexible position. She instead
seems to be signaling continued
determination to press ahead and
won’t adjourn the House without an
agreement with the administration.

Trump denies downplaying virus, casts doubt on mask usage

President Donald Trump to face
Democratic nominee Joe Biden in the
first presidential debate on Sept. 29
BY ZEKE MILLER AND
KEVIN FREKING
The Associated Press
PHIL A-
DEL PHI A
— Fielding
compelling
questions
about vot-
ers’ re-
al-world
p r o b l e m s , Trump
President Donald Trump
denied during a televised
town hall that he had
played down the threat
of the coronavirus earlier
this year, although there
is an audio recording of
him stating he did just
that.
Trump, in what could
well be a preview of his
performance in the pres-
idential debates less than
two weeks away, cast
doubt on the widely ac-
cepted scientific conclu-
sions of his own admin-
istration strongly urging
the use of face coverings
and seemed to bat away
the suggestion that the
nation has racial inequi-
ties.
“Well, I hope there’s
not a race problem,”
Trump said Tuesday when
asked about his campaign
rhetoric seeming to ig-
nore the historical injus-
tices carried out against
Black Americans.
Face-to-face with ev-
eryday voters for the first
time in months, Trump
was defensive but resist-
ed agitation as he was
pressed on his adminis-
tration’s response to the
COVID-19 pandemic and
why he doesn’t more ag-
gressively promote the
use of masks to reduce
the spread of the disease.
“There are people
that don’t think masks
are good,” Trump said,
though his own Centers
for Disease Control and
Prevention strongly urges
their use.
The event, hosted by
ABC News’ George Steph-
anopoulos, was a warmup
of sorts before Trump fac-
es Democratic nominee
trol, that everything was
and it turned out to be not
Joe Biden in the first pres-
idential debate on Sept.
true,” Trump said,
Trump also suggested
29. Taped at the National
Constitution Center in
the virus would disap-
pear without a vaccine,
Philadelphia, it featured claiming the nation would
Trump taking questions
develop a herd immunity
from an audience of just with time, but he didn’t
21 voters to comply with mention the lives that
state and local coronavi-
would be lost along the
rus regulations.
way.
Trump sought to
counter his admission to “It’s going to be
journalist Bob Woodward herd-developed, and
that he was deliberately that’s going to happen.
“playing it down” when That will all happen,”
discussing the threat of Trump said. “But with a
COVID-19 to Americans vaccine, I think it will go
earlier this year. Despite away very quickly.”
audio of his comments
being released, Trump
said: “Yeah, well, I didn’t
downplay it. I actually, in
many ways, I up-played it,
in terms of action.”
“My action was very
strong,” Trump added.
“I’m not looking to be dis-
honest. I don’t want peo-
ple to panic.”
Trump also insisted he
was not wrong when he
praised China’s response
to the virus in January
and February, saying he
trusted Xi Jinping, the
Chinese leader. “He told
me that it was under con-

Science magazine makes first

endorsement in 175 years, taps Biden
Scientific American criticized Trump
for seeking cutbacks in scientific
funding and hobbling the U.S.
response to climate change
BY DAVID BAUDER
AP Media Writer
N E W
YORK — and the science show that
Even though
Scientif ic
A merican
had never
endorsed a
presidential
Biden
candidate in
the magazine’s 175-year
history, its top editor said
Tuesday there was little
internal debate over a de-
cision to back Democrat
Joe Biden.
Editor-in-Chief Laura
Helmuth said President
Donald Trump’s adminis-
tration was much worse
for the scientific commu-
nity than the magazine
had feared.
The magazine’s en-
dorsement was posted on-
line Tuesday, a day after
Trump questioned the sci-
ence of climate change in
relation to the California
wildfires. Helmuth said
the timing was coinciden-
tal and the editorial was
written during the past
two months.
Scientific American
said that “the evidence
Donald Trump has basi-
cally damaged the United
States and its people be-
cause he rejects evidence
and science.”
The editorial by se-
nior editor Josh Fisch-
man sharply condemned
Trump for his handling
of the coronavirus pan-
demic. The magazine
criticized Trump for seek-
ing cutbacks in scientific
funding and hobbling the
U.S. response to climate
change.
Biden, the magazine
said, “has a record of fol-
lowing the data and being
guided by science.”
There was no immedi-
ate reply to a request for
comment from the Trump
campaign.
There’s been some
pushback. Helmuth said
the magazine has been
monitoring requests for
canceled subscriptions
and has received some
— many from people who
weren’t subscribers, any-
way.
Conservative colum-
nist S.E. Cupp tweeted
that while she agreed with
the magazine’s arguments
and planned to vote for
Biden, “I do have mixed
feelings on whether this
is a good use of scientific
clout and credibility.”
University of New Mex-
ico psychology professor
and author Geoffrey Mill-
er said that the magazine
was betraying 175 years
of principled bipartisan-
ship “for the sake of some
cheap, short-sighted, op-
portunistic virtue signal-
ing.”
“I’m old enough to re-
member when your mag-
azine had some integrity,”
he tweeted.
But Helmuth said the
magazine has not ignored
politics; the Atomic Ener-
gy Commission burned
3,000 copies of an issue in
the 1950s because of its
stance against the hydro-
gen bomb. The magazine
has been running more
opinion pieces lately, and,
in 2016, wrote an edito-
rial questioning Trump’s
fitness to be president,
although it didn’t endorse
Hillary Clinton.
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Hurricane Sally blasts ashore in Alabama with punishing rain

‘Sally has a characteristic that isn’t often
seen and that’s a slow forward speed
and that’s going to exacerbate the flooding’
Ed Rappaport, deputy director of the National Hurricane Center
BY JAY REEVES, ANGIE WANG
AND JEFF MARTIN
The Associated Press
PENSACOLA, Fla. — Hur-
ricane Sally blasted ashore
Wednesday near Gulf Shores,
Alabama, as a Category 2
storm, shoving a surge of ocean
water onto the coast and hurl-
ing torrential rain that forecast-
ers said would cause dangerous
flooding from the Florida Pan-
handle to Mississippi and well
inland in the days ahead.
Moving at an agonizingly
slow 3 mph, the center of the
hurricane made landfall at 4:45
a.m. local time with top winds
of 105 mph, the National Hurri-
cane Center said. Sally’s north-
ern eyewall had raked the Gulf
Coast with hurricane-force
winds and rain from Pensaco-
la Beach, Florida, westward to
Dauphin Island, Alabama, for
hours before its center finally
hit land.
Trees were bending over
and flailing around as the rain
blew sideways in the howling
winds. In downtown Pensaco-
la, car alarms were triggered,
setting off honking horns and
flashing lights that illuminated
floodwaters up to the bumpers
of parked cars. Street lights
were snuffed out in downtown
Mobile, Alabama, where a stop-
light snapped, swinging wildly
on its cable.
Nearly 500,000 homes and
businesses had lost electricity
by early Wednesday, accord-
ing to the poweroutage.us site.
A curfew had been called in
Gulf Shores due to life-threat-
ening conditions hours before
landfall. In the Panhandle’s Es-
cambia County, Chief Sheriff’s
Deputy Chip Simmons vowed
to keep deputies out helping
Tropical Storm Teddy upgraded to a hurricane
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MIAMI ­— Tropical Storm Teddy has now be-
come a hurricane with maximum sustained winds
of 100 mph the National Hurricane Center said.
Some strengthening is forecast during the
next few days, and Teddy is likely to become a ma-
residents as long as physically
possible. The county includes
Pensacola, one of the largest
cities on the Gulf Coast.
“The sheriff’s office will be
there until we can no longer
safely be out there, and then
and only then will we pull our
deputies in,” Simmons said at a
storm briefing late Tuesday.
This for a storm that, during
the weekend, appeared to be
headed for New Orleans. “Ob-
viously this shows what we’ve
known for a long time with
storms — they are unpredict-
able,” Pensacola Mayor Grover
Robinson IV said.
Stacy Stewart, a senior spe-
cialist with the hurricane cen-
ter, told The Associated Press
said the rainfall will be “cata-
jor hurricane later Wednesday and could reach
Category 4 strength on Thursday.
Teddy is located about 820 miles east of the
Lesser Antilles. Hurricane-force winds extend
outward up to 25 miles from the center and trop-
ical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 175
miles.
strophic and life threatening” going to exacerbate the flood-
over portions of the Gulf Coast, ing,” Rappaport told the AP.
Florida panhandle and south- He likened the storm’s slow
eastern Alabama. progression to that of Hurri-
The storm’s top sustained cane Harvey, which swamped
winds had dropped to 81 mph Houston in 2017. Up to 30 inch-
just over an hour after it struck es of rain could fall in some
land. Forecasters warned that spots, and “that would be re-
heavy rainfall would contin- cord-setting in some locations,”
ue into Thursday as the storm Rappaport said in an interview
moved inland over Alabama Tuesday night.
and into central Georgia, likely Sally’s impact was felt all
causing serious flash flooding along the northern Gulf Coast.
and minor to moderate river Low lying properties in south-
flooding far from the coast. east Louisiana were swamped
Sally was a rare storm that by the surge. Water covered
could make history, said Ed Mississippi beaches and parts
Rappaport, deputy director of of the highway that runs par-
the hurricane center. allel to them. Two large casino
“Sally has a characteristic boats broke loose from a dock
that isn’t often seen and that’s where they were undergoing
a slow forward speed and that’s construction work in Alabama.

Aldermen
Continued from Page 1A
50 percent of trees with
a diameter of at least 10
inches and all trees with
a diameter of at least
30 inches at new devel-
opments, according to
Section 16.7 of the city’s
unified development code
approved in December.
Variances from the city
code must be approved by
the appropriate board or
commission and then by
the board of aldermen.
The landscape advisory
board approved Castle-
berry’s request 5-1 earlier
this month.
Garan is scheduled to
move to a new location
at the North Star Indus-
trial Park in northern
Starkville, and the new
development by Castle-
berry’s company, Castle
Properties, will include
an ALDI grocery store.
Castleberry said the
development will have a
completely underground
water detention system
in order to comply with
Starkville’s stormwater
ordinance. He previous-
ly told The Dispatch this
means the Garan site will
be completely razed and
the new dirt on top of the
trees’ roots will eventual-
ly kill them.
The stormwater ordi-
nance, updated in August
2019, states that devel-
opments must be able to
mitigate storm-water run-
off to accommodate a 100-
year weather event, which
is defined as a rainfall of
9.4 inches over a 24-hour
period.
“(Removing the trees)
also increases our ability
to develop the site,” Cas-
tleberry told the alder-
behalf of a small group is currently undergoing, the consent agenda to
of fellow East Gillespie and Mayor Lynn Spruill suspend the city’s recy-
Street residents during said it might be a good cling program, which op-
the citizen comment pe- location for a radar sign erated at a loss, in order
riod. He said changes to monitoring the speed of to save money after the
the layout of Highway 12 traffic. COVID-19 pandemic cre-
over the past couple years Ballard said SPD will ated a budget shortfall of
have caused commuters be sure to enforce the law more than $1 million.
to and from MSU to drive against excessive noise The city is considering
on the closest parallel from vehicles, which he a partnership with MSU’s
street, which happens to called a “fashion state- “robust” recycling pro-
be Gillespie Street. ment” from some cars in gram, Sistrunk said, in
The area between particular. order to keep providing
Jackson and Montgomery Additionally, the board the service to citizens at a
Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff streets, in particular, is voted unanimously via manageable cost.
Everett Kennard, left, and Starkville Police Chief Mark one of the oldest neigh-
Ballard discuss the issue of loud and unsafe traffic borhoods in Starkville
on East Gillespie Street, where Kennard lives, outside and is designated a his-
Starkville City Hall after Kennard’s appearance before toric district, so residents
the board of aldermen on Tuesday. Traffic from Highway are unhappy with the
12 has been diverted to Gillespie Street in the past higher volume of cars
couple years, and Kennard said he and other residents
“want our street and our quiet neighborhood restored.” that risk safety by speed-
ing and disturb the peace
men. “Leasable space is the reason for her vote, with their loud engines,
good for us as the devel- and Perkins did not pro- Kennard said.
oper, but it’s also good for vide a reason for his. “We’ve come to pres-
the city because it gener- Carver and Little said ent our views and hopeful-
ates more opportunities they trusted the land- ly open a dialogue and get
for job creation and taxa- scape advisory board’s some help and advice,” he
tion.” decision to support the said. “We want our street
Walker, an associate variance. and our quiet neighbor-
professor of Castleberry told The hood restored.”
landscape Dispatch he did not yet The speed limit on that
architecture know the impact of the stretch of road is 25 miles
at Mississip- board’s decision on the per hour, which Kennard
pi State Uni- plans for the develop- said is already too high,
versity, said ment, “but it seems rea- but he noted he is certain
he believed sonable and we’re going vehicles pass his home
the trees in to try to make it work.” traveling nearly double
at least the Walker that speed.
nor theast City Engineer Edward
corner of the site could be
Concerns about Kemp and Starkville Po-
saved. speeding traffic lice Chief Mark Ballard
“I think there’s an op- Everett Kennard and agreed to address the is-
portunity right there to his wife do not let their sue. Kemp said the area
potentially look at that grandchildren play near in question would be a
and not impact the value the sidewalk in front good point of data collec-
of the site that needs de- of their house on East tion for the regional trans-
veloping, but at the same Gillespie Street, they portation study the city
time keep some modicum said, because they are
of existing vegetation,” he concerned about the fre-
said. quency of speeding cars
Sistrunk deferred to on the street.
Walker’s comments as Kennard spoke on

AROUND THE STATE

Mississippi county’s top
prosecutor resigns
VICKSBURG — A county in the Mis-
sissippi Delta is now without a top prose-
cutor.
Warren County Prosecuting Attorney
Ken Harper resigned Monday in a letter
to the county Board of Supervisors Presi-
dent Dr. Jeff Holland.
As county prosecuting attorney, Harp-
er served as prosecutor for criminal cases
in the county, justice and youth courts. He
also represents the state in cases appealed
from the county court to circuit court. He
held the post for almost nine months.
Harper’s letter to the board was one
sentence: “Please accept this letter as
my resignation as Warren County Prose-
cuting Attorney effective September 14,
Warren County Election Commission
Chairwoman Sara Dionne said according
to the Mississippi Secretary of State’s of-
fice a special election will be held in No-
vember 2021.
Canton Flea Market to happen after
mayor’s veto is snubbed
CANTON — A central Mississippi
flea market is scheduled to happen next
month, despite a mayor’s attempt to stop
it because of COVID-19 safety concerns.
The Canton Board of Aldermen voted
Monday unanimously to overturn Mayor
William Truly’s veto of the Canton Flea
Market, WLBT-TV reported.
The event is usually held twice a year
on the town square in Canton, about 35
miles north of Jackson. Officials canceled SOLUNAR TABLE
The solunar period indicates

2020, at 5:00 p.m. Sincerely, Ken Harper.” the one in May because of the pandemic. peak-feeding times for fish and game.
Wed. Thurs.
Major 12:26p 12:52a
No reason was given. The next one is Oct. 8. Minor 6:08a 7:15a
Holland said Harper’s resignation will The flea market typically attracts Major — 1:17p
Minor — 7:35p
be discussed at the supervisors’ meeting thousands of shoppers to the small town. Courtesy of Mississippi Department
of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks

Monday, The Vicksburg Post reported. Although the event is outside, it’s com-

“Assuming that the board accepts that
resignation the process going forward
would be to appoint through some selec-
tion process an interim for Ken Harper’s
position until a special election can be
held,” Holland said.
The process to select the interim pros-
ecutor has not been determined by the
board, he said.
mon to see people crowded close togeth-
er.
Aldermen say they are working on
a safety plan that includes requiring all
vendors and shoppers to wear masks.
They are asking all vendors to have
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Jerome Blake Brian Morgan
WEST POINT — ABERDEEN — Bri-
Jerome William Blake, an Keith Morgan, 57,
69, died Aug. 31, 2020, died Sept. 14, 2020, at
in Oktibbeha County. his residence.
Graveside services Graveside services
are at 11 a.m. today, in are at 11 a.m. today, in
Snow Family Cemetery New Hope Cemetery,
of Okolona, with the with the Rev. Sandra
Rev. Amos Branson DePriest officiating.
officiating. Carter’s There will be no public
Mortuary Services of visitation. Tisdale-Lann
West Point is in charge Memorial Funeral
of arrangements. Home is in charge of
arrangements.
Mr. Blake was
Mr. Morgan was
born June 27, 1951, in
born July 3, 1963, in
West Point, to the late
Aberdeen, to Linda
Pierce Williams Jr. and
Latham Hargis and the
Dorothy Pearl Blake.
late Gilbert Morgan.
He was a veteran of the
He was formerly em-
Army and was formerly
ployed as a construc-
employed as a TVA
electrician supervisor. tion manager and was
In addition to his a member of St. John’s
parents, he was preced- Episcopal Church.
ed in death by his son, In addition to his
Shadrack Rashad Bind- mother, he is survived
er; and siblings, Fred- by his wife Shelley
Westbrook Morgan
AREA OBITUARIES
etery of Caledonia,
with Robert Williams
officiating. Visitation
is from 1-5 p.m. today,
at Hairston and Hair-
ston Funeral Home.
Hairston and Hairston
Funeral Home of Co-
lumbus is in charge of
arrangements.
Mr. Jordan was born
Dec. 25, 1947, in Co-
lumbus, to the late Earl
Jordan and Louis Cun-
ningham Jordan. He
was formerly employed
as a maintenance man
with the Columbus
school system.
In addition to his
parents, he was pre-
ceded in death by his
siblings, Woodie Jor-
dan and Cora Jordan.
He is survived by his
wife Ena Orr Jordan;
children, Toni Lynn
Byrd, Nicole Denise
Price, Jeremy Jordan
Fred Webb
HATLEY — Fred
Melvin Webb, 86, died
Sept. 14, 2020.
Services will be at 3
p.m. Thursday, at Cleve-
land-Moffett Funeral
Home. Burial will follow
in Hatley Cemetery.
Visitation is from 5-8
p.m. today, at the funer-
al home. Cleveland-Mof-
fett Funeral Home of
Amory is in charge of
arrangements.
Mr. Webb was born
May 14, 1934, in Saltil-
lo, to the late Mark and
Florence White Webb.
He attended Freed
Hardeman University
and Alabama Christian
College. He was for-
merly employed as a
preacher.
In addition to his par-
ents, he was preceded
in death by his siblings,
Joyce Swindle and Don-
of Millport, Alabama, Baptist Church.
with Benny Henry In addition to his
officiating. Burial will parents, he was preced-
follow in Furnace Hill ed in death by his son,
Cemetery of Vernon, Bryce Myles; siblings,
Alabama. Visitation will Clyde Miles, Johnny
be two hours prior to Miles, Percy Miles,
services at the church. Darrell Shaffer Sr. and
Otts Funeral Home of Betty Miles.
Sulligent is in charge of He is survived by
arrangements. his wife, Bjanka Myles;
Mr. Myles was born children, Keith Myles
July 1, 1972, in India- Jr. of Northport, Ala-
napolis, Indiana, to the bama and Kelsey Myles
late Frank Myles Sr. of Vernon, Alabama;
and Minnie Bell Allen. siblings, Terry Myles
He was a graduate of Sr., LaMorris Myles Sr,
Ben Davis High School Kevin Myles Sr., Cedric
and Bevill State Com- Myles, Adrian Myles
munity College. He was and Sharon Echols all
formerly employed as of Indianapolis, Indiana;
an associate minister at and two grandchildren.
Mt. Olive Missionary Pallbearers will be
Baptist Church and Terry Myles Sr., Cedric
with Lowndes County Myles, LaMorris Myles
Sheriff’s Department. Sr., Kevin Myles Sr.,
He was a member of Antone’ Harris and
Mt. Olive Missionary Richard Jenkins Jr.

Mary Atkins
erick Blake, Pierce and Earl Jordan; and
Williams III, Carolyn of Aberdeen; chil- ald Webb.
four grandchildren.
Denise Williams and dren, Dixie Morgan, He is survived by his
Jeanette Walker Lewis. Buck Morgan both of wife, Shirley; children,
He is survived by Starkville and Johnny Roy Fisher Freida Parham, Andra Mary Jean Golson Atkins,
his wife, Gwendolyn Haney of Hamilton; sis- STARKVILLE — Parham, Becky Webb 97, of Steens, MS, and more
ter, Laura Morgan; and Roy Fisher, 77, died and James Webb all of recently of Pensacola, FL,
Snow Blake; children,
two grandchildren. Sept. 12, 2020. Hatley; siblings, Joan passed away on September 12,
Jason Jermaine Brown,
Family services will 2020. She was born on October
Angel Jemece Blake Epperson of Saltillo and
be at 2 p.m. Friday, at 21, 1922, to J.S. Golson and
and Chelsea Jillian Nevie Wilson First Baptist Church
Kay Pope of Baldwyn;
Emma Cole Golson.
Marion; siblings, STARKVILLE — seven grandchildren;
Maben, with the Rev. Mary Jean is survived by her
Wendell Blake, Tyree Nevie Miller Wilson, and 14 great-grandchil-
Ben Yarber officiating. daughter, Jeanne H. Tew (Ron)
Gibson, Willie Al 92, died Sept. 14, 2020. dren.
Burial will follow in of Pensacola; granddaughter,
Gibson, Bruce Gibson, Graveside service Pallbearers will
Curtis Chapel Cem- Amy Holliman Brown (Chris) of Hernando,
Lawrence Williams, will be at 10 a.m. be Raymond Little,
etery of Starkville. MS; grandson, Alex Holliman, of Tupelo, MS;
Wren Williams, Jer- Thursday, in Memorial Bill Steverson, Mark
Welch Funeral Home and great-grandsons, Holliman, Hayes, Webb
emy Goins, Theresa Garden Park Ceme- Parham, Leslie Grant, and Cooper Brown and Brady and Jack Dudley
of Starkville is in Roy Lee Lindsey, Chris
Williams Chandler and tery, with the Rev. Hal Holliman, who are so lucky to have memories of
charge of arrange- Parker and Eddie
Delisa Blake; and five Selby officiating. Welch their Great Granny Atkins.
ments. Comer.
grandchildren. Funeral Home of She is preceded in death by her parents;
Mr. Fisher was born
Starkville is in charge May 17, 1943, in Crock- brother, John Golson; and sister, Louise Golson
James Newman of arrangements. ett County, Tennessee, Keith Myles Sr. Ray.
COLUMBUS — Mrs. Wilson was to the late Ruth Clell SULLIGENT, Ala. Memorial contributions in Mary Jean’s name
James Walter Newman, born Jan. 5, 1928, in Colston Fisher and — Keith Myles Sr., 48, may be made to Piney Grove Methodist Church,
85, died Sept. 10, 2020, Sturgis, to the late Johnny Patterson Fish- died Sept. 13, 2020, at 1577 Steens Vernon Rd, Steens, MS 39766.
at Aurora Health and Samual “Sam” Thom- er. He was a veteran of Baptist Memorial Hos- Paid Obituary
Rehabilitation Center. as Miller and Allie the US Army and was pital-Memphis.
A funeral service West Miller. She was formerly employed as Funeral services will
was held at 11 a.m. formerly employed as a welder, a road con- be at 2 p.m. Saturday,
Monday, at Lowndes a practical nurse with struction foreman and at Mt. Olive Mission-
Funeral Home Chapel, Felix Long Hospital a farmer. He attended ary Baptist Church
with the Rev. Al Hamm and as a biological lab First Baptist Maben
officiating. Burial technician with the Church.
followed in Egger Agricultural Research In addition to his
Cemetery of Caledo- Lab. She was a mem- parents, he was pre-
nia. Lowndes Funeral ber of Adaton Baptist ceded in death by his
Home of Columbus was Church. siblings, Rex Fisher,
in charge of arrange- In addition to her Dan C. Fisher, James P.
ments. parents, she was Fisher, Sue Massengill
Mr. Newman was preceded in death by and Jo Ann Burks.
born Oct. 25, 1934, in her children, Thomas He is survived by
Hamilton, Alabama, to Dale Wilson and Gary his wife, Brenda Jane
the late Rhoda Linley Lynn Wilson; brother, Reece Fisher; children,
Newman and Floyd Clarence Henry Miller; Brenda Fisher Temple
Newman. He was a and one grandson. of Maben and Roy G.
member of Church of She is survived by Fisher of Starkville;
God. her daughter, Deborah siblings, Doris Stutts Frances Bradley
In addition to his Kay Wilson Fesmire; of Humboldt, Ten- Visitation:
parents, he was preced- sister, Mary Miller nessee, Bobbie Nell Wednesday, Sept. 16 • 1-2 PM
College St. Location
ed in death by his sib- Jones; three grand- Stevenson, LeRoy Services:
lings, Alphas Newman, children; and nine Fisher both of Barlett, Wednesday, Sept. 16 • 2 PM
College St. Location
Leonard Newman and great-grandchildren. Tennessee, Cynthia Burial
Louis Newman. Smith of Biloxi, Ava Beersheba Cemetery
He is survived by his Little Jordan Morgan of Collierville,
College St. Location

siblings, Selma Gilm- COLUMBUS — Tennessee, Bonnie

ore of Columbus and Little Earl Jordan, 72, Williams of Pigeon
Fay Smith of Hamilton. died Sept. 9, 2020, at Forge, Tennessee,
Memorials may be Baptist Memorial Hos- Johnny Fisher of Mem-
made to Alzheimer’s pital-Golden Triangle. phis, Tennessee and
Association, Mississip- Graveside services Marty Fisher of Maur- memorialgunterpeel.com

pi Chapter, 855 S. Pear will be at 11 a.m.
Orchard Road, Ridge- Thursday, in Bethle-
land, MS 39157. hem Memorial Cem-
Israel signs pacts with 2 Arab
states: A ‘new’ Mideast?
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS back from their fellow
Arabs and a betrayal of
WASHINGTON — Is- their cause for a Pales-
rael on Tuesday signed tinian state.
historic diplomatic pacts Hundreds of people
with two Gulf Arab massed on the sun-
states at a White House washed South Lawn to
ceremony that President witness the signing of
Donald Trump declared agreements in a festive
will mark the “dawn of a atmosphere little marked
new Middle East,” cast- by the coronavirus pan-
ing himself as an inter- demic. Attendees did
national peacemaker at not practice social dis-
the height of his reelec- tancing and most guests
tion campaign. didn’t wear masks.
The bilateral agree- “We’re here this
ments formalize the afternoon to change
normalization of Israel’s the course of history,”
already thawing rela- Trump said from a balco-
tions with the United
ny overlooking the South
Arab Emirates and Bah- Lawn. “After decades of
rain in line with their division and conflict, we
common opposition to mark the dawn of a new
Iran. But the agreements Middle East.”
do not address the de- Israeli Prime Minis-
cades-long conflict be- ter Benjamin Netanyahu
tween Israel and the said the day “is a pivot of
Palestinians, who view history. It heralds a new
the pacts as a stab in the dawn of peace.”
Frances Bradley
cy City, Tennessee; two
grandchildren; and one
great-grandchild.
Frances Elizabeth Bradley, age 91, died
Monday, September 14, 2020, at her residence in
Columbus.
Services will be held Wednesday September
16, 2020, at 2:00 PM at Memorial Gunter Peel
Funeral Home 903 College Street Chapel with
Rev. Bobby Sanderson officiating. Burial will
follow at Beersheba Cemetery. Visitation will
be held one hour prior to service at the funeral
home.
Mrs. Bradley was born on Wednesday, April
24, 1929, in Mississippi, to the late Seba Cole
and Lizzie Langford Cole McAllister. She was a
homemaker and a seamstress.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in
death by her husband, Roy Lee Bradley; her son,
Bruce Bradley; and her sisters, Maudie Turner
and Ruth Rodgers.
Survivors include daughter, Janice Hall
(David), Columbus, MS; sons, Terry Bradley
(Glenda), Longview, TX, John David Bradley
(Wanda), Columbus, MS, Gary Bradley (Jan),
Navarre, FL and Roy Martin Bradley, Columbus,
MS; step-sister, Marie Bradley; daughter-in-law,
Jean Bradley, Newton, MS; 13 grandchildren;
and a host of great-grandchildren.
Grandsons will serve as pallbearers
Roy Martin Bradley, her son and for 18 years
her caregiver will serve as honorary pallbearer.
Sign the online guest book at
www.memorialgunterpeel.com
cdispatch.com
College Street • Columbus, MS
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Apology, no firing: Official

said US scientists hurt Trump
The Department of Health and Human Services is
standing by Michael Caputo so far in the face of
calls by congressional Democrats for his dismissal
BY RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
AND RICHARD LARDNER
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A Trump
health appointee who is accused of
trying to muzzle an important scien-
tific publication in the midst of the
coronavirus pandemic apologized
Tuesday for a separate video in
which he reportedly says scientists
battling the virus are conspiring
against President Donald Trump
and warns of shooting in America if
Trump loses the election.
Michael Caputo, the top spokes-
man for the Department of Health
and Human Services, apologized
to his staff for the Facebook video,
said an administration official, who
spoke on condition of anonymity to
discuss internal matters.
The department is standing by
Caputo so far in the face of calls by
congressional Democrats for his
dismissal — and for the resignation
of his boss, HHS Secretary Alex
Azar. But Caputo, a Trump loyalist
and former New York political oper-
ative, has become a significant new
problem for a White House that has
struggled all year with its coronavi-
rus response.
He can be heard on an HHS
podcast asserting that Democrats
don’t want a coronavirus vaccine be-
fore the election in order to punish
Trump. Although Trump has made
the same assertion, with no evi-
dence to support it, such broadsides
are not in a department spokesman’s
normal portfolio.
News reports alleged last week
that Caputo’s office tried to take
over and muzzle a scientific weekly
from the Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention that publishes
what is supposed to be authoritative,
unvarnished information about dis-
ease-fighting efforts, including, most
importantly at present, COVID-19.
Then on Monday came an ac-
count of the video on Caputo’s per-
sonal Facebook page in which he
accused government scientists of
conspiring against Trump and sug-
gested violence could break out after
the election.
Caputo was named the top HHS
spokesman in April, during a tense
period in relations between the
White House and HHS Secretary
Alex Azar.
On a taxpayer-funded podcast
earlier this summer he accused
Democrats and the media of not
wanting a coronavirus vaccine until
after the elections in order to defeat
Trump.
“There are people in the United
States government on the Demo-
crats’ side ... (who) do not want a vac-
cine,” he said.
“They don’t want a vaccine until
November 4th,” he added, citing the
day after the presidential election.
It’s highly unusual to use an agency
communications platform for such a
blatantly political message.

‘Say her name’: City to pay $12M to Breonna Taylor’s family

Taylor’s March 13 death sparked
months of protests in Louisville,
Kentucky, and calls nationwide for
the officers to be criminally charged
BY DYLAN LOVAN
The Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —
Months after the police
killing of Breonna Taylor
thrust her name to the
forefront of a national
reckoning on race, the
city of Louisville agreed
to pay the Black woman’s
family $12 million and re-
form police practices as
part of a settlement an-
nounced Tuesday.
But Taylor’s moth-
er and others who have
taken up her cause said
much more must be done
to right the wrongs of ra-
cial injustice in America.
“Please continue to
say her name,” Taylor’s
mother, Tamika Palmer,
declared at an emotional
news conference, evoking
the call that has become a
national refrain for those
outraged by the shooting
and police violence.
Taylor’s death sparked
months of protests in Lou-
isville and calls nation-
wide for the officers to be
criminally charged. The
state’s attorney general,
Daniel Cameron, is inves-
tigating police actions in
the March 13 fatal shoot-
ing.
“I cannot begin to
imagine Ms. Palmer’s
pain, and I am deeply,
deeply sorry for Breon-
na’s death,” said Louis-
ville Mayor Greg Fischer
in announcing the terms
of the lawsuit settlement.
Standing nearby as the
mayor spoke, Palmer said
the police reforms were
not enough.
the settlement extend-
ed to “Injustice Square”
“We must not lose fo-
cus on what the real job
in downtown Louisville,
where demonstrators
is, and with that being
said, it’s time to move
have gathered daily for
113 days, demanding jus-
forward with the crimi- tice for Taylor. Some who
nal charges, because she listened to the announce-
deserves that and much ment over a loudspeaker
more,” Palmer said. “As near a memorial for Tay-
significant as today is, it’s lor said the price for a life
only the beginning of get- seemed low, the promised
ting full justice for Breon- reforms too little and too
na.” late.
The lawsuit, filed by “It’s just not enough,”
Palmer in April, accused said Holly McGlawn, who
police of using flawed noted how much Taylor
information when they might have made had she
obtained a “no-knock” lived. She was young, she
warrant to enter the could have worked for an-
26-year-old woman’s other 40 or 50 years, she
apartment. Taylor and her said.
boyfriend, Kenneth Walk-
er, were roused from bed
by police, and Walker said
he fired once at the offi-
cers, thinking they were
intruders. Investigators
say police were returning
fire when they shot Taylor
several times. No drugs
were found at her home.
Dissatisfaction with

Police leaders pressed Rochester to keep Prude video secret

BY MICHAEL R. SISAK
The Associated Press
Rochester police com-
manders urged city offi-
cials to hold off on publicly
releasing body camera
footage of Daniel Prude’s
suffocation death because
they feared violent blow-
back if the video came out
during nationwide pro-
tests over the police kill-
ing of George Floyd, newly
released emails show.
Deputy Chief Mark
Simmons cited the “cur-
rent climate” in the city
and the nation in a June 4
email advising then-Chief
La’ron Singletary to press
the city’s lawyers to deny
a Prude family lawyer’s
public records request for
the footage of the March
23 encounter that led to
his death.
The video, finally made
public by Prude’s family on
Sept. 4, shows Prude hand-
cuffed and naked with a
spit hood over his head as
an officer pushes his face
against the ground, while
another officer presses a
knee to his back. The of-
ficers held him down for
about two minutes until
he stopped breathing. He
was taken off life support
a week later.
“We certainly do not
want people to misinter-
pret the officers’ actions
and conflate this incident
with any recent killings
of unarmed black men by
law enforcement national-
ly,” Simmons wrote. “That
would simply be a false
narrative, and could create
animosity and potentially
violent blow back in this
community as a result.”
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OUR VIEW

Both sides valid in county tax squabble; state should clarify

O
n Tuesday, the Lowndes
County Board of Super-
visors announced its
intentions to take the county’s
school district to court in a
dispute over how much money
should be appropriated to the
schools for Fiscal Year 2021.
But if you are looking for
the responsibility party in this
dispute, the focus must shift to
Jackson, where state officials --
primarily the Legislature and
the Attorney General’s Office
- set the stage for the disagree-
ment long, long ago.
The key factor in this
dispute is how ad valorem tax
revenue, which funds both
county operations and the
school district, are calculated
as it pertains to an economic
development plan passed by
the Legislature more than 30
years ago.
The 1989 Economic De-
velopment Reform Act was
established to help the state
attract new industry though
an incentive that would allow
new companies valued at more
than $60 million to pay only
a third of their taxes for a
period of up to 10 years under
a fee-in-lieu provision. After
that, the company would be
required to pay taxes based on
its assessed value.
Now, 30 years later, the
ambiguity of that legislation
has manifested itself here in
Lowndes County.
For the average person, it’s
a pretty complicated matter.
In short, the disagreement
is whether or not the school
district’s request for a funding
increase is within the estab-
lished parameters (districts
can request up to a 4 percent
increase without challenge).
Increases beyond 4 percent
could be rejected by the super-
visors or require voter approv-
al, should the request exceed a
7 percent increase.
How that percentage is
calculated is the big question,
one that revolves entirely
around how the revenue from
an expired fee-in-lieu agree-
ment should be evaluated.
Revenue from “new proper-
ty” doesn’t count in calculat-
ing the percentage of increase
requested, so the question be-
comes: Is a business that has
been operating in the county
for 10 years, operating under a
fee-in lieu agreement, rightly
considered “new property?”
The supervisors argue that
a business under a fee-in-lieu
agreement cannot be consid-
ered new since that company
was assessed and added to
the tax rolls at the time the
fees-in-lieu agreement was
signed. In fact, the only way
to determine the one-third
payment a company would pay
is to assess it for tax purposes.
That argument is reason-
able, certainly.
But so is the school dis-
trict’s argument.
In fact, the phrase “fee-
in-lieu” makes a pretty good
argument when you consider
this salient point: Fee in lieu
… of what? There’s only one
answer: Taxes. The term itself
suggests that there is a mate-
rial difference between a fee
and a tax.
It is on that basis that the
school district hangs its hat.
For 10 years, the county may
have collected fees, but when
a fee-in-lieu agreement ends,
it is only at that point that the
revenues collected from a
company become taxes. For
all practical purposes, that’s
“new” tax revenue that replac-
es an “old” fee.
Our view is that either
position is reasonable. It is
also our view that the state
bears the responsibility for
clarifying which view should
govern how these revenues
are classified.
One thing everyone should
be able to agree on is that this
is not a dispute we should be
having more than 30 years
after the state’s fee-in-lieu
program was implemented.
Let’s get this fixed now.

VOICE OF THE PEOPLE CARTOONIST VIEW

Apology to Roger Wade
I am sorry that I compared you to
the ones who simply faded away. You
did give a reason for you leaving, and
it was my error for not recognizing
that.
Please accept my apology. In no
way would I purposely intimidate
you. I try to stick to the facts, but in
this case, I had the facts wrong.
James Hodges
Steens

TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Wednesday, Sept. 16, the
260th day of 2020. There are 106 days
left in the year.

Today’s Highlights in History:

On Sept. 16, 1974, President
Gerald R. Ford announced a condi-
tional amnesty program for Vietnam
war deserters and draft-evaders.

On this date:
In 1630, the Massachusetts
village of Shawmut changed its name
to Boston.
In 1810, Mexico began its revolt
against Spanish rule.
In 1966, the Metropolitan Opera
officially opened its new opera house
at New York’s Lincoln Center for
the Performing Arts with the world
premiere of Samuel Barber’s “Antony
and Cleopatra.”
In 1982, the massacre of be-
tween 1,200 and 1,400 Palestinian
men, women and children at the
hands of Israeli-allied Christian
Phalange militiamen began in west
Beirut’s Sabra and Shatila refugee
camps.
In 1987, two dozen countries
signed the Montreal Protocol, a trea-
ty designed to save the Earth’s ozone
layer by calling on nations to reduce
emissions of harmful chemicals by
the year 2000.
In 1994, a federal jury in Anchor-
age, Alaska, ordered Exxon Corp. to
pay $5 billion in punitive damages for
the 1989 Exxon Valdez (val-DEEZ’)
oil spill (the U.S Supreme Court later
reduced that amount to $507.5 mil-
lion). Two astronauts from the space
shuttle Discovery went on the first
untethered spacewalk in ten years.
In 2001, President George W.
Bush, speaking on the South Lawn of
the White House, said there was “no
question” Osama bin Laden and his
followers were the prime suspects in
the Sept. 11 attacks; Bush pledged
the government would “find them, get
them running and hunt them down.”
In 2005, President George W.
Bush ruled out raising taxes to pay
the massive costs of Gulf Coast recon-
struction in the wake of Hurricane
Katrina, saying other government
spending had to be cut to pay for the
recovery effort.
In 2007, contractors for the U.S.
security firm Blackwater USA guard-
ing a U.S. State Department convoy
in Baghdad opened fire on civilian
vehicles, mistakenly believing they
were under attack; 14 Iraqis died. O.J.
Simpson was arrested in the alleged
armed robbery of sports memorabilia
collectors in Las Vegas. (Simpson
was later convicted of kidnapping and
armed robbery and sentenced to nine
to 33 years in prison; he was released
in 2017.)
SOURCE: The Associated Press
THE NATION
Time for congress to investigate the
performance of health care executives
After the 2008 economic need and one serious illness know whether it is a mild stench or
collapse, the U.S. Senate away from ruin. a revolting stench. The potential for
Permanent Subcommittee Meantime, one lucky conflicts of interest is there. It should
on Investigations launched group of individuals are be prohibited.”
a series of inquiries aimed health care CEOs, whose But the conflicts of interest are not
at exposing the rot under- compensation packages even the only problem. “High health
lying the financial services often bear little relationship care CEO salaries,” Sager says, “are
industry. During one mem- to the delivery of affordable like the froth on a toxic waste dump. It
orable hearing, then-Sen. health care and frequently is visible on the surface, but it obscures
Carl Levin grilled Goldman are the product of incen- what is even worse underneath.” Hospi-
Sachs executives on their tives to overcharge and tal executives are often given free rein
sale of investment products under-treat. For example, to run enterprises whose mandate is
they knew to be dubious Jeff Robbins Boston is a mecca for not to increase the bottom line. “They are
in order to increase their only health care but also going to do things that are profitable,”
already eye-popping com- executives’ compensation he says, and that tends to encourage
pensation. An exchange in which Levin arrangements, even as health care procedures, billing and other conduct
used internal emails to show how Gold- costs explode. A recent survey of non- whose target is that bottom line. “What
man Sachs officials sold products they profit hospitals showed that as of 2018, they frequently do,” says Sager, “is put
knew to be “s--ty deals” went viral. the last year when their IRS filings their financial self-interest first.”
Congress has a long history of are available, the CEOs of the city’s 10 Whether it is examining potential
conducting investigations to shed light largest health care companies were conflicts of interest by health care
on sharp or shoddy practices and the paid salaries ranging from $1.7 million executives, or strengthening whis-
handsome compensation packages to $4.7 million. Dozens of other health tleblower protections for health care
granted to the executives responsible care executives in Boston were paid personnel who report practices that
for them. In 1933, a Senate committee similar amounts. are dishonest or jeopardize patient
investigating the roots of the Great This does not include the appoint- safety, Congress has a crucial role to
Depression called banker J.P. Morgan ments to health care company boards play, and it is crucial that it play it. The
to testify about his own salary and the these CEOs are able to leverage for new Congress that takes office in Janu-
dishonest practices that made that sal- themselves by dint of their positions. ary should use its investigative powers
ary possible, generating public support These appointments pay handsomely, to shine a much-needed spotlight on
for remedial legislation enacted during with stock grants and annual board America’s health care corporations,
the New Deal. fees over and above their compensa- and on how they can better serve the
The pandemic has exposed with tion. They are hardly charitable in na- patients who pay their executives’
new clarity the comparable rot that ture: The companies handing out the remarkable salaries.
underlies the American health care board seats seek hospital business, and Jeff Robbins, a former assistant
system. Americans pay an estimated they get it, in the form of participation United States attorney and United States
$4 trillion annually for health care, in programs paid for by patients; re- delegate to the United Nations Human
and the pandemic has unmasked a search and clinical arrangements; and Rights Council in Geneva, was chief
system that proved ill-equipped to cope other lucrative benefits. On their face, counsel for the minority of the United
with a major public health crisis while these relationships are either blatant States Senate Permanent Subcommittee
other countries could and did. The conflicts of interest or provide the com- on Investigations. An attorney special-
mind-boggling monies pouring into pelling appearance of them. “It smells,” izing in the First Amendment, he is
health care providers’ coffers somehow Alan Sager, professor at Boston Univer- a longtime columnist for the Boston
leaves tens of millions of Americans sity’s School of Public Health, says of Herald, writing on politics, national
unable to afford the health care they this mutual back-scratching. “We don’t security, human rights and the Mideast.
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Petalo, not Charmin: Virus

brings Mexican toilet paper to US
Supply chain experts expect the foreign-made
rolls to be on store shelves only temporarily, until
U.S. manufacturers catch up with demand
BY JOSEPH PISANI
AP Retail Writer
NEW YORK — Toilet paper is
back on store shelves. But you may
not recognize some of the brands.
Demand for toilet paper has
been so high during the pandemic
that in order to keep their shelves
stocked, retailers are buying up
foreign toilet paper brands, mostly
from Mexico. Major chains, across
the country, including CVS, Piggly
Wiggly, Safeway, 7-Eleven and oth-
ers, are carrying the international
brands.
In recent weeks, a CVS in New
York has been selling three Mexi-
can brands: Regio, Hoteles Elite
and Daisy Soft. Mexico’s Petalo was
on the shelves of a Piggly Wiggly in
Sister Bay, Wisconsin. And a Safe-
way supermarket in Fremont, Cali-
fornia, had those same brands, plus
Vogue, whose label says in Spanish
that it smells like chamomile.
The stores said they needed to
get creative during the pandemic
and started working with new sup-
pliers to get shoppers what they
needed. But don’t worry about
popular U.S. brands like Charmin
— they aren’t going to disappear.
Supply chain experts expect the
Mexican and other foreign-made
rolls to be on store shelves only
temporarily, until U.S. manufactur-
ers catch up with demand.
Americans use much more toilet
paper than other countries, accord-
ing to Patrick Penfield, a supply
chain professor at the Whitman
School of Management at Syracuse
University — which is why Mexico
can handle shipping more rolls to
the United States. Stores have done
this with other products during the
pandemic, he said, bringing Mexi-
can-made hand sanitizer to the U.S.
when there was a shortage.
Americans, of course, buy prod-
ucts that are made all over the
world, but most of the toilet paper
they use is made in the U.S. Toilet
paper is inexpensive and takes up
a lot of space in trucks and ships,
making it not worth the cost of
importing from other countries.
That’s left the toilet paper aisle with
the same familiar brands, causing
some shoppers to do a double take
when they see the unfamiliar stuff.
Oliver Olsen wasn’t even in the
market for toilet paper, but he had
to stop and take a closer look at
what he saw in the aisles last month
at a Hannaford supermarket in Lon-
donderry, Vermont.
Instead of Charmin and Cotton-
elle, there was Vogue and Delsey
from Mexico. Next to them were
rolls of Cashmere from Canada and
King Blue from Trinidad and Toba-
go.
“It really just jumped out at me,”
said Olsen, who works in the soft-
ware industry and is a former state
representative. “I didn’t know any
of these.”
Ericka Dodge, a spokeswoman
for Hannaford, a chain owned by
supermarket operator Ahold Del-
haize, said the grocer worked with
new suppliers to get toilet paper on
the shelf faster.
Some U.S. manufacturers also
stopped making the many varieties
of toilet paper they usually make,
like sheets that are stronger or in-
fused with aloe, so they could focus
on the basics and get it to stores
quicker. But Dodge said those vari-
eties are starting to return to retail-
ers’ shelves.
Penfield, the Syracuse Univer-
sity professor, expects American
manufacturers to struggle to keep
up with demand for the next three
to five months.

What are the different types of coronavirus tests?

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS at least a day, though a Antigen tests aren’t as for proteins that the body
handful of rapid tests take accurate as genetic tests, makes to fight off infec-
What are the differ- about 15 minutes on site. but are cheaper, faster tions in a patient’s blood
ent types of coronavirus Other genetic tests use and require less special- sample. Antibodies are a
tests? saliva, instead of a swab. ized laboratory equip- sign that a person previ-
There are three broad ment. They still require ously had COVID-19.
categories of coronavirus
tests in the U.S. Two di- Antigen tests a nasal swab by a health Scientists don’t yet
A newer type of test professional. know if antibodies protect
agnose whether you have A recently approved
looks for proteins found people from another in-
an active infection, and a test from Abbott Labora-
on the surface of the coro- fection, or how long that
third indicates if you pre-
navirus, rather than the tories takes 15 minutes protection might last. So
viously had the virus.
virus itself. These anti- and can be performed at antibody tests are mostly
Here’s how they work:
gen tests are just hitting schools, offices and other useful for researchers mea-
the market, and experts locations. suring what portion of the
Genetic tests hope they’ll help expand population was infected.
Most tests look for bits
of the virus’ genetic mate- testing and speed up re- Antibody tests
rial, and require a nasal sults. Antibody tests look
swab that is taken by a
health professional and
then sent to a lab. This is
considered the most ac-
curate way to diagnose an
infection, but it’s not per-
fect: The swab has to get
a good enough sample so
any virus can be detected.
These tests usually
take hours to process
at the lab so you likely
won’t get results back for

While income in
the US rose in
2019, so did the
uninsured
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ORLANDO, Fla. — In
2019, before the coronavi-
rus pandemic hit and the
U.S. economy crashed, me-
dian household income was
the highest ever on record,
but the number of U.S. res-
idents without health insur-
ance also increased, the
U.S. Census Bureau report-
ed Tuesday.
Median household in-
come in 2019 was $68,703,
an increase of 6.8 percent
from the previous year.
That figure surpassed past
boom-before-the bust years
in 2007, when it was $62,090
in 2019 dollars and in 1999,
when it was $62,641 in 2019
dollars, according to the
Census Bureau.
The poverty rate in
2019 was 10.5 percent, a
decrease from 11.8 percent
in 2018. It was the fifth con-
secutive annual decline in
the national poverty rate,
according to the Census
Bureau.
The number of people
without health insurance
increased last year to 29.6
million residents, or about
9.2 percent of the U.S. pop-
ulation from 28.6 million
residents, or about 8.9 per-
cent of the population, in cdispatch.com
2018.
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Experts worry as US virus

restrictions are eased or violated
‘Folks are becoming very cavalier about the with new cases of the coronavirus
on the rise.
pandemic. I think it is setting us up for further “I think it is setting us up for fur-
ther transmission and more people
transmission and more people getting ill ...’ getting ill and, unfortunately, more
Mark Rupp, professor and chief of infectious diseases people dying,” Rupp said.
at the University of Nebraska Medical Center The virus is blamed for more
than 6.5 million confirmed infec-
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS such things as a welcome step clos- tions and 195,000 deaths in the
er to normal, public health experts U.S., by far the highest totals of
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — State warn the U.S. is setting itself up for any country, according to the count
and local officials around the U.S. kept by Johns Hopkins University.
failure — again.
are rolling back social-distancing While case numbers have fallen
“Folks are becoming very cava- from a peak average of 67,000 new
rules again after an abortive effort
over the summer, allowing bars, lier about the pandemic,” said Mark infections per day in late July to
restaurants and gyms to open. Fans Rupp, professor and chief of infec- about 36,000 now, the numbers re-
are gathering mask-free at football tious diseases at the University of main staggeringly high. Deaths are
games. President Donald Trump is Nebraska Medical Center. Nebras- running at about 750 a day, down
holding crowded indoor rallies. ka’s governor ended nearly all of his from a peak of over 2,200 in late
While some Americans may see state’s restrictions on Monday, even April.

Supes
Continued from Page 1A
percentage of a person’s
real and personal property
value. County taxpayers
will see a smaller tax bill
on their properties due
to the reduced millage
rate, as a 2-mill decrease
would lower residential
property taxes by $20 and
commercial taxes by $30
per $100,000 of assessed
value.
The Tuesday vote is the
latest development of an
ongoing dispute between
the supervisors and LCSD
over whether the school
district can claim property
tax revenue from expired
fee-in-lieu agreements —
tax breaks that allow area
developments, usually in-
dustrial, to pay a third of
the regular property taxes
for up to 10 years — as col-
lections from “new proper-
ties” and include them as
part of its request.
By law, LCSD can re-
quest up to 4 percent more
in operating funds than
last year’s figure for FY
2021 and collect any ad
valorem tax revenue from
“new properties” — which
include properties that are
newly constructed, new-
ly added to the tax roll or
have never been assessed
— without voter approval.
Any increase beyond that
would require voter in-
volvement.
LCSD’s request includ-
ed $21.1 million in op-
erating funds, a near-$5
million increase from the
$16.4 million it requested
in FY 2020. The FY 2021
figure includes $3.5 mil-
lion in collections from
13 fee-in-lieu agreements
that expired in December,
which, according to Su-
perintendent Sam Allison,
allows the school district
to operate within legal
boundaries.
However, by voting
against the request, su-
pervisors argued that fee-
in-lieu agreements have
been previously assessed
and count as part of the
county’s assessed value,
and therefore are not “new
properties,” said supervi-
sors’ attorney Tim Hud-
son. If the school district
still hopes to collect $21.1
million without claiming
the fee-in-lieu properties
as new properties, that
would represent a 30-per-
cent increase from last
year’s figure, which would
require a voter referen-
dum, he said.
“It’s our opinion that
they are not following the
applicable … definition of
‘new property,’ and that,
under their definition, it
excludes a referendum
that is mandated by Mis-
sissippi law,” Hudson said.
Instead, following su-
pervisors’ Tuesday vote,
LCSD will only receive
$17.7 million in operating
funds for FY 2021, which
represents a 4-percent in-
crease from the amount
allocated during the cur-
rent fiscal year, said Chief
Financial Officer Lloyd
Price. The district will
receive roughly $24 mil-
lion in total, which also
includes its debt service
mills.
District 1 Supervi-
sor Harry Sanders said
the school
district is
receiving
more mon-
ey than last
year even
with the
millage rate
drop, partly Sanders
because the
mill value, or the amount
1 mill can generate, has
risen from $469,000 to
$536,000 in the school dis-
trict.
“They are going to get
about $2 million more
(in total) than they got
last year, and the millage
(rate) … is going down by
1.89 mills,” he said. “Good,
good both ways.”
LCSD board members
already passed the dis-
trict’s budget based on the
original request, and su-
pervisors’ refusal to fulfill
that request would result
in a shortfall for an LCSD
that’s trying to up its fund it takes in next year in road
balance, Allison told The maintenance, Emergen-
Dispatch. If the district cy Management Agency
cannot claim those agree- grants and 911 commu-
ments as new property, it nications, the documents
will fail to benefit from fee- show.
in-lieu agreements once However, the deficit
they expire, he said. may turn into a surplus if
“I’m disappointed. I the county wins its dispute
would have hoped they with Caledonia Energy
would have honored our Partners, which protested
request,” he said of su- against the FY 2021 tax
pervisors’ decision. “It’s roll and argued it is being
public knowledge that we assessed at a higher value
need the money.” than its value. The compa-
Hudson said the district ny argued it should have
may have to borrow mon- been assessed based on
ey before the court can
the sale price to ArcLight
resolve the dispute. If the
Capital Partners in Octo-
district proves to be cor-
ber 2018, but Tax Collec-
rect, supervisors will raise
tor/Assessor Greg An-
the millage rate according-
drews previously told The
ly during next year’s bud-
get session, he said. Dispatch his assessment
“I want it on the fast is based on the equipment
track,” Hudson said of the cost provided by the com-
case. “We certainly want pany.
it done before next year. If the county wins,
We don’t want to face this Price said, it will get to
again. We want a definite keep roughly $800,000 in
answer.” taxes from the company,
which should turn the sit-
uation around.
Supes adopt a $52M
budget for FY 2021
Supervisors also unan-
imously adopted a rough-
ly $52 million budget for
the upcoming fiscal year,
almost $4 million larger
than the current fiscal
year’s budget.
The county expects
to receive $52.1 million
in revenue, a $3.5 million
increase from current
year’s budgeted amount,
county documents show.
The increase is partly due
to the mill value increase
from $683,000 last year to
$750,000 this year, Price
told The Dispatch. The
county is also receiving
additional funding of more
than $1.1 million to aid a
Steel Dynamics, Inc. proj-
ect to build a stretch of
railway near its campus,
he said.
The county is expect-
ed to spend $52.6 mil-
lion in FY 2021, which
could result in a deficit of
$469,506, Price said. The
county may outspend what

Crawford man dies in Tuesday night wreck

Victim apparently
lost control of
vehicle and ran
off road
DISPATCH STAFF REPORT
A Crawford man died
in a single-vehicle acci-
dent in south Lowndes
County Tuesday night.
Lowndes County Coro-
ner Greg Merchant identi-
fied the victim as Cedrick
Jamison, 39. The crash
occurred when Jamison
ran off the road near the
intersection of Sweden-
burg Road and Hardy Bil-
lups Road in Crawford.
Merchant said Jamison
apparently lost control of
the SUV he was driving
and that when it ran off
the road, it overturned.
Jamison was ejected from
the vehicle and pinned un-
derneath it.
Authorities pro-
nounced him dead at the
scene.
Merchant said it’s un-
clear at this time why
Jamison lost control. No
autopsy has been sched-
uled.

Council
Continued from Page 1A
$23.9 million adopted for
the current fiscal year.
The budget projects ap-
proximately $22.95 mil-
lion in revenue and $22.94
million in spending, which
would leave the city with a
surplus of $8,286.79.
The council set the FY
21 millage rate during a
special-call meeting Sept.
8 with no change to the
current rate. The city’s
millage rate will hold at
51.24 mills, whereas the
Columbus Municipal
School District’s rate will
remain at 61.98 mills.

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HOW QBS K.J. COSTELLO AND WILL ROGERS EARNED

THEIR SPOTS IN THEIR SHORT TIME ON CAMPUS
BY BEN PORTNOY
bportnoy@cdispatch.com

STARKVILLE — Mis-
sissippi State freshman
quarterback Will Rogers
has only been on campus
since December. Stan-
ford graduate transfer
K.J. Costello arrived in
Starkville even later, on
June 1.
Yet now less than
two weeks shy of MSU’s
season opener against
defending national cham-
pion and No. 6-ranked
LSU in Baton Rouge, it’s
the Bulldogs’ newest fac-
es under center that sit
perched atop the depth
chart as they head toward
a trip to Death Valley.
Speaking with the me-
dia for the first time since
arriving from Paolo Alto
on Tuesday, Costello is
thought provoking in his
verbiage. He spent near-
ly four minutes giving a
thorough breakdown of
Leach’s air raid offense
that left onlookers mes-
merized.
The newest gradu-
ate transfer quarterback
to team with first-year
head coach Mike Leach,
Costello has long had a
distanced relationship
with the latest leading
man at MSU. The pair met
annually as members of
the Pac-12 North Division
at Stanford and Washing- Photo courtesy of Mississippi State Athletics
ton State, respectively. Ten days shy of MSU’s season opener, quarterback K.J. Costello said Leach has yet to officially anoint him the starter, though he’s received the lion’s
At least four of Costello’s share of first team reps in recent days.
high school teammates Balancing the weight For Rogers, the transi- “He ripped the ball, a comparable offense to during the offseason.
from Santa Margarita of arriving at a new tion has been more nor- went 4-for-4, made good, what Leach runs during Dipping through his bag
played for Leach in Pull- school, while also devel- mal. A mid-year enrollee quick decisions and kind his prep days. of past sessions at Stan-
man — including receiv- oping bonds and rising to in the class of 2019, he of gave you, like Garrett As for Costello, he ford, Costello pushed the
er Kyle Sweet, who only Bulldogs through one-on-
the leadership qualities arrived at MSU in time (Shrader) did last year, a conceded he spent am-
moved to the outside from ones, seven-on-seven and
called for in a Southeast- for bowl practices as a good glimpse of why he ple time in the film room
quarterback after Costel-
ern Conference quarter- three-star passer and the was 38 touchdowns, three at Stanford flipping to even, at times, 11-on-11.
lo developed enough to
back, Costello toed the lone quarterback in Joe picks and 3,600 yards this the Cardinal defense’s Limited chalk talks also
necessitate a change
line between leading by Moorhead’s final recruit- year,” Moorhead said at video packages during occurred, though Costel-
during the latter’s junior
example and in his words. ing class of his tenure. the time. Washington State week lo assured the offense is
year.
“It wasn’t a real easy “It’s hard to be a leader Awe-struck a touch by his Throughout camp, and throughout his time learned as much on the
call because Kyle was before you put the pads first taste of college foot- both Rogers and Costel- in Paolo Alto to further field as on a dry erase
a great quarterback,” on necessarily,” junior ball, opportunities were lo have received their grasp what made the Cou- board.
then-Santa Margarita receiver Austin Williams limited, though he was share of praises that are gar offense tick despite “I mean, we got in the
coach Rick Curtis told said. “But once you put effective. perhaps most rooted in its on-paper simplicity. classroom and drew up
The Dispatch in March. the pads on, you definite- After watching his first their offseason work to- With a hearty dose of base concepts of this is
“So we were like, what do ly can gain a lot more re- pass as a Bulldog slip out gether. A Brandon High what they’d be expected that, this is that.” he said.
we do? We didn’t want one spect once people see you of his hand, Rogers fired a School alumnus — the to run come fall camp, “But a lot of this stuff is
to stand on the sidelines. play and he’s definitely completion the following same school that bred Costello and Rogers got just picked up through
We wanted to make sure filled that role well. He rep during his first ever former Washington State to work. The pair helped practice, to be honest.
that our best players were hasn’t had problems with practice. A 4-for-4 after- quarterback Gardner run player-only practic- It’s not necessarily as
on the field.” it.” noon ensued days later. Minshew — Rogers ran es three times per week See MSU, 3B

HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL

Caledonia volleyball’s Libby McMurphey keys road win at Mooreville

BY THEO DEROSA
tderosa@cdispatch.com
MOOREVILLE — As the volleyball
slipped through her outstretched arms
and landed well out of bounds, Libby
McMurphey landed awkwardly on the
court — and smiled.
“It was really funny, actually,” Mc-
Murphey said. “I thought I was going
to be able to jump high enough to get it,
and I guess I couldn’t. I landed on my
toe. It did not feel good.”
The Caledonia senior couldn’t corral
the point for her team during Tuesday’s
road match against Mooreville, but as
well as she and her teammates were
playing, it was already on to the next
one.
“She doesn’t let a lot bother her,”
Caledonia coach Samantha Brooks said
of McMurphey. “She makes a mistake,
she just moves on, and that’s a good
characteristic to have as a senior lead-
er.”
McMurphey showed plenty of those
traits and plenty of talent Tuesday as
Caledonia (9-4, 4-0 district) stayed un-
defeated in district play with a sweep of
Mooreville. Set scores were 25-17, 25-15
and 25-13 as the senior outside hitter led
the way.
“She’s kind of our little offensive fire-
cracker, if you will,” Brooks said. “She’s
short in stature, but she can jump and
attack. She’s got a really good swing.”
McMurphey said she’s been able to
step up her play recently after honing
her skills during the fall.
“It’s been building through the sea-
son,” she said. “I’ve had a few great
games here recently.”
So has Caledonia, which has now
swept matches on back-to-back days af-
ter beating New Albany in straight sets
at home Monday.
Brooks and McMurphey both pointed
to Caledonia’s initial matchup with New
Albany on the road Sept. 3 as a turning
point in the season. On the road, Cale-
donia came back to win the second set
26-24 and won the deciding fourth set by
the same score for a 3-1 win.
“That was the best game we’ve
played, by far,” McMurphey said. “It was
so fun, and we all were really pumped by
the end of it. It was just amazing.”
Caledonia showed similar excitement
Tuesday, celebrating with each score
against the Troopers. Several points
drew particularly loud reactions, includ-
ing McMurphey’s hard kill to stretch
her team’s lead to 14-10 in the first set.
“It feels great,” she said. “My kills are
sketchy sometimes, but those ones are
good.”
Brooks said she can tell the improve-
ment McMurphey has put in for her se-
nior season.
“She’s really worked hard over the
course of the last year to get it in — to
put a little bit of a spin on top — and fin-
ish her swing,” Brooks said. “She’s been
an effective force for us.”
McMurphey’s power helped Cale-
donia turn around a first set that got
off to a bit of a rough start. The team
faced deficits of 5-2 and 7-3, brought on
by several service errors, before right-
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Bam! Adebayo’s block helps Heat win Game 1

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. —
Jayson Tatum thought he had a
dunk to tie the game.
Bam Adebayo had other ideas
— and in the biggest moment of
his young NBA career, Miami’s
All-Star big man more than rose
to the occasion.
Jimmy Butler’s three-point play
with 12 seconds left put Miami
ahead for good, Adebayo finished
it off with a stunning rejection of
Tatum at the rim on the ensuing
Boston possession, and the Heat
struck first in the Eastern Confer-
ence finals with a 117-114 win in
Game 1 on Tuesday night.
“When you have great compe-
tition like this, you just have to
make plays that you can’t even
really explain,” Heat coach Erik
Spoelstra said. “And that was
Bam tonight.”
The Heat were down by 13 in
the opening minutes, down by 14
in the final quarter and felt like a
bad call took the lead from them
in the final seconds. They found
a way in overtime, improving to
an NBA-best 9-1 so far in these
playoffs.
Goran Dragic scored 29 points,
Jae Crowder scored 22, Butler
had 20 and Adebayo had 18. But
even after a night when Butler
made a go-ahead 3-pointer late in
regulation and had the go-ahead-
for-good points again in overtime,
he pointed at Adebayo for his fa-
vorite moment.
“Bam. That seals the game for
us,” Butler said. “I love how he
does any and everything that you
ask him to do. I really do. You ask
him to pass the ball, he does that.
Score, he does that. Come up with
a huge defensive stop, block, he
does that. He’s a huge part to our
winning. I’ve been saying it all
year long and I’ll repeat it again.”
Kemba Walker’s basket with
23.2 seconds left in overtime put
Boston up by one, before Butler
muscled his way to the rim for
a score while getting fouled by
Tatum. The Celtics went to Tatum
on the ensuing possession, only
to watch him get denied by Ade-
bayo.
“He made a great play,” Tatum
said. “That’s all it is. ... Can’t do
anything about it.”
Tatum scored 30 points for the
Celtics, Marcus Smart had 26
points, Walker had 19 and Jaylen
Brown added 17. The Celtics had
been 156-1 since the shot-clock
era started 65 years ago — win-
ners of 92 straight — when lead-
ing by 12 or more points going
into the fourth quarter of a playoff
game.
They’re 156-2 now.
“Got to make better decisions,”
Walker said.
Celtics coach Brad Stevens
tipped his cap to Adebayo after-
ward.
“He is a tremendous defend-
er,” Stevens said. “We’re going to
have to figure out, again, better
ways to attack, especially late.
I thought we really moved it at
times, then we did get stagnant.”
Miami’s Tyler Herro was one
assist shy of a triple-double — fin-
ishing with 12 points, 11 rebounds
and nine assists. He would have
been the second-youngest player
in the last 40 years to have a post-
season triple-double, one day old-
er than Magic Johnson was when
he got his first.
Johnson weighed in postgame
on Twitter, lauding Miami.
“Bam Adebayo’s block on
Jayson Tatum’s dunk attempt was
the best defensive play I’ve seen
ever in the playoffs!!!!” Johnson
tweeted.
Boston led 85-71 early in the
fourth and kept the lead for al-
most all of the final period — un-
til Butler connected on a 3-point-
er from the right corner with 22
seconds left for a 106-105 Miami
edge.
The Celtics tied it before the
clock even started again. Derrick
Jones Jr. was called for an away-
from-the-play foul while Miami
defended the inbounds pass, a
call where the Heat argued to no
avail that he got shoved instead.
Tatum went to the line, tied the
game with the free throw, and
Boston all of a sudden went from
needing a score to being able to
run out the clock.
Tatum’s 3-point try at the end
of regulation was short, and to
overtime they went.
“Made a hell of a block,” Ade-
bayo said. “That doesn’t dictate
the series, though. We’re only up
1-0.”
Tip-ins
Heat: Miami has gotten into
early trouble in all three of its
Game 1s in these playoffs — down
eight to Indiana early in the first
round, down 11 to Milwaukee in
the opening quarter of the second
round and down 13 to Boston in
Tuesday’s first quarter. ... Andre
Iguodala, who played in zero con-
ference-final games in his first
10 seasons, has now played in 22
since 2015.
Celtics: Boston’s record for
consecutive Game 1 wins is 11,
from 1985 through 1987. The
Celtics won eight straight from
1959 through 1962. ... Gordon
Hayward (ankle) was inactive
again, though the Celtics believe
he can play in this series. ... Brad
Wanamaker had five steals for
Boston.
Miami vs. Boston
Tuesday was the 141st meet-
ing all-time between the Celtics
and Heat. It also marked the 39th
all-time matchup between the
Boston Red Sox and Miami Mar-
lins — but it was the first time
those four clubs all faced off on
the same date. The closest they
previously came to colliding was
2012, when the Heat topped the
Celtics in Game 7 of the East fi-
nals on June 9 and the Red Sox
and Marlins opened a series two
days later.
Welcome, Deuce
Tatum’s son young Deuce
cleared quarantine and was re-
united with his dad — and the
rest of the Celtics — in the bub-
ble on Tuesday. “Ultimately, it’s
just nice for them to see their
families,” Stevens said. “I walked
down the hallway with Deuce to-
day, which was the highlight of
my 70 days here. I think that’s
just really cool.”

Murray, Jokic help Denver stun

Clippers 104-89 in Game 7
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Den-
ver’s dynamic duo of Jamal Murray
and Nikola Jokic led another stunning
turnaround as the Nuggets advanced
to the Western Conference finals for
the first time since 2009.
Murray scored 40 points, Jokic had
a triple-double by the third quarter
and Denver again overcame a dou-
ble-digit deficit to shock the Los An-
geles Clippers 104-89 in Game 7 on
Tuesday night.
Denver became the first team in
NBA history to rally from a 3-1 series
deficit twice in the same postseason.
Even more history: The Nuggets
are the third team in the U.S. major
pro sports to rally from a pair of 3-1
deficits in the same playoffs, joining
the 1985 Kansas City Royals and 2003
Minnesota Wild.
Denver will face LeBron James and
the Los Angeles Lakers in the confer-
ence finals.
The 7-foot Jokic had a monster
game with 16 points, 13 assists and
22 rebounds, which were the most by
a Nuggets player in an NBA playoff
game. He broke his record of 19 that
he set last season and shared with
Marcus Camby.
In a familiar trend, the Nuggets
found themselves down by 12 in the
first half. They also trailed 61-54 with
10:50 let in the third when they caught
fire. The Nuggets went on a 35-13
run to build up a 15-point lead in the
fourth quarter.
They led by as many as 20.
Murray helped the Nuggets pour it
on down the stretch to give coach Mi-
chael Malone a 49th birthday present.
The team also rallied back from
double-digit margins in their last two
games as well to stun the Clippers.
Despite the additions of Kawhi
Leonard and Paul George, the Clip-
pers fell short of the conference finals,
where they’ve never been. They fell to
0 -8 all-time in games where they could
clinch a trip to the conference finals.
Leonard finished with 14 points on
6 -of-22 shooting, while George had 10
points on 4-of-16 shooting.
It was Denver’s talented twosome
that stole the show.
Jokic insisted the third-seeded
Nuggets weren’t feeling any pres-
sure. He said Game 7 was just anoth-
er game. After all, this was Denver’s
fourth straight Game 7 dating to the
playoffs last season.
After trailing by as many as 12 in
the first half, the Nuggets worked
their way back into the game behind
the shooting of Murray. He scored 25
before intermission as the Clippers
elected to double-team Jokic.
Tip-ins
Nuggets: Jerami Grant and Gary
Harris each had 14 points.
Clippers: G Landry Shamet turned
his right ankle in the first quarter,
limped down the floor, hit a 3-pointer
and then hobbled to the locker room.
He returned just before halftime. ...
Montrezl Harrell led the Clippers with
20 points.
Fashion forward
The Nuggets coaching staff went
with their customary all-black outfits
(a nod to singer Johnny Cash). The
Clippers wore salmon-colored polo
shirts that have been lucky for them
inside the bubble.
Just coaches being a little supersti-
tious.
“I worked with coaches that knew
the record of the ties they wore,”
Malone said. “Yes, we are a weird
group. We’ll look at any advantage
necessary. As the jump ball goes up,
it doesn’t matter what we’re wearing.”
Morant unanimous pick for NBA’s
All-Rookie team
Rookie of the Year Ja Morant of the
Memphis Grizzlies was the lone unani-
mous selection to the NBA’s All-Rookie
Team that was announced Tuesday.
Morant was a first-team pick on all
100 ballots. Joining him on the first team
were Miami guard Kendrick Nunn, Griz-
zlies forward Brandon Clarke, New Orle-
ans forward Zion Williamson and Gold-
en State forward Eric Paschall.
The second-team picks were Heat
guard Tyler Herro, Toronto guard Ter-
ence Davis II, Chicago guard Coby
White, Charlotte forward P.J. Washing-
ton and Washington forward Rui Ha-
chimura.
Paschall edged Herro by one point for
the last first-team spot.

World Series at Arlington, first time at one site since 1944
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — The
World Series will be
played entirely at the Tex-
as Rangers’ new ballpark
in Arlington, Texas, and
Major League Baseball
hopes fans can attend.
The Division Series,
League Championship
Series and World Series
all will be part of a bub-
ble designed to minimize
exposure to the corona-
virus, which limited the
regular season to a 60-
game schedule for each
club and caused 45 post-
ponements.
This will be the first
World Series played en-
tirely at one site since
1944, when the Cardinals
beat the Browns 4-2 at
Sportsman’s Park in St.
Louis, where both teams
shared the field.
“The elimination of
travel is obviously a pos-
itive because because it
cuts exposure,” baseball
Commissioner Rob Man-
fred said in an interview
with The Associated
Press after Tuesday’s
announcement. “Less in-
teraction outside with the
group that you’re looking
to protect is a huge pos-
itive. It’s all about what
the risk of interacting
with the community is.”
While MLB was
pleased with the play-
ers’ response to proto-
cols during the regular
McIlroy shaped by perspective of fatherhood at U.S. Open
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First-time fatherhood
has suited Rory McIlroy.
He has doted on daughter
Poppy in the two weeks
since she was born, and
he felt the pang of having
to leave her and wife Erica
to prepare for this week’s
U.S. Open.
He’s also embraced the
sleepless nights, even dia-
per duty.
“I’ve got my hands
dirty, put it that way,”
McIlroy said Tuesday at
Winged Foot.
McIlroy is hoping to do
the same this week during
what figures to be a brutal
test.
Still one of golf’s best,
the 31-year-old is attempt-
ing to end a lengthy — at
least for him — drought at
the majors.
Since winning the 2014
PGA Championship for
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ing the ship and pulling
away for a 25-17 set win.
Caledonia’s poor serving
performance wasn’t lost
on Brooks, either, after
what she estimated as six
serves into the net or out
of bounds in the first set
alone.
“We had a little talk
about consequences of
missed serves, because
that’s non-negotiable,”
she said. “That’s a mental
error. If everybody was
jump-serving at full force,
that would be different.
That’s not the case. If
we’re standing on our feet
serving, it should be in.”
But Caledonia tight-
ened up its serving and
improved its play in the
second and third sets de-
spite being tired from last
night’s match and a con-
stantly changing rotation.
Brooks said she wants
MSU
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much theorizing in the classroom that
we would do quite a bit where I came
from.”
Ten days shy of MSU’s visit to Ba-
ton Rouge, Costello said Leach has
yet to officially anoint him the starter,
though he’s received the lion’s share
of first team reps in recent days. Rog-
ers too has more or less secured the
second-string quarterback slot with
season, the bubble was
preferred for the latter
stages of the postseason,
when there is little time
available for reschedul-
ing.
After playing the en-
tire regular season in
empty ballparks, MLB
hopes to be allowed to
have about 25% capacity
for postseason games at
Arlington, where total ca-
pacity is about 40,000.
Manfred views the
neutral-site World Series
as a one-off, along with
other innovations for
2020 that included run-
ners at second to start ex-
tra innings and seven-in-
ning doubleheaders.
“It’s not something
that we’re contemplating
as a permanent change,”
he said.
Off days were elimi-
nated for the Division Se-
ries and League Cham-
pionship Series, which
will stress pitching depth
among starting rotations
and bullpens.
“It tells you the talent
of the whole team, and
it’s what we do for 162
games,” Philadelphia
Phillies manager Joe Gi-
rardi said. “There might
be a little bit more offense
just because of that.”
No off days may im-
pact teams’ decisions on
how many pitchers to
carry for postseason se-
ries.
“It will probably affect
his fourth career major,
McIlroy has gone 0 for
20 in golf’s four most im-
portant tournaments. He’s
come close with 10 top-10
finishes since winning at
Valhalla.
In that span, Brooks
Koepka has won four ma-
jors, Jordan Spieth three.
Danny Willett became a
first-time major champi-
on at the Masters; Tiger
Woods returned from a
series of back surgeries
to win his 15th major at
Augusta last year; and
23-year-old Collin Mori-
kawa won this year’s PGA
Championship in his sec-
ond career major start.
It’s not like McIlroy’s
skills have faded.
He was the FedEx Cup
champion in 2016 and
2019, has 12 victories over
the past six years — nine
on the PGA Tour — and
arrived at Winged Foot
to get as many players as
she can on the court with
their future availability
never certain because of
the presence COVID-19,
the flu, strep throat, a
stomach bug — or a con-
fluence of maladies.
“We’re really trying to
work on playing every-
body,” she said. “We nev-
er know who’s going to be
out on that court.”
No matter who it is,
Caledonia has found suc-
cess of late. Brooks’ team
has won three straight
non-tournament match-
es and looks much im-
proved from the squad
that played in preseason
scrimmages against Tu-
pelo and Starkville, then
struggled against the Yel-
low Jackets and rival New
Hope.
“We have been able to
put it together and really
Shrader’s move to receiver last week.
And though competition continues
between Costello and Rogers, there’s
a feeling of comfort between the two.
Down time is spent on the golf course
together, where Rogers says Costel-
lo is “100 percent” the better player.
Costello even says Rogers reminds
him of himself as a freshman, though
not in an arrogant manner. Rather, it’s
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everyone’s pitching staff.
It probably depends on
the depth of your bull-
pen,” Houston Astros
manager Dusty Baker
said. “Every game is
important during that
streak. You might have
to carry an extra pitch-
er when you ordinarily
wouldn’t have because
you see off days as a rest
day.”
The two traditional off
days were retained for
the World Series.
First-round best-of-
three matchups in a post-
season expanded from
10 to 16 teams this year
will be held entirely at
the higher-seeded clubs.
The final eight teams will
shift to bubble environ-
ments.
“The agreement at-
tempts to balance play-
ers’ experiences and
concerns while making
the accommodations
necessary to best ensure
a safe, healthy and suc-
cessful conclusion to the
2020 season,” union head
Tony Clark said in a state-
ment.
The World Series will
be at Globe Life Field in
Arlington, a retractable
roof stadium with arti-
ficial turf that opened
this year adjacent to the
Rangers’ old ballpark.
Texas is last in the
AL West at 17-30 enter-
ing Tuesday, with little
chance of advancing to
ranked No. 4 in the world.
The majors have proved
elusive, in large part due
to slow starts.
McIlroy grinded out an
even-par 70 at TPC Hard-
ing Park in last month’s
PGA Championship be-
fore fading to 33rd, but too
often he has stumbled out
of the gate and spent the
rest of the week chasing.
One glaring example was
the British Open at Roy-
al Portrush in his native
Northern Ireland last year,
when he hit his opening
tee shot out of bounds and
made a quadruple-bogey
8.
“I probably just put a
little too much pressure
on myself going into tour-
naments,” he said. “And
from there, shooting a bad
score on the first day and
putting yourself under
even more pressure from
there to just make it to the
focus on what we need to
do to be a winning team,”
Brooks said.
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Winston Academy 3,
West Lowndes 0
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Bayou Academy 2,
Starkville Academy 0
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Marshall Academy 15,
Starkville Academy 0
Noxubee County drops
a spot in Class 3A in
new Mississippi high
school football poll
Noxubee County (2-
0) dropped from second
to third in the MHSAA
the postseason.
“That stinks, to think
we wouldn’t be the first
team to play a postsea-
son game here,” Rangers
manager Chris Wood-
ward said. “We’ve got
to play better, that’s the
bottom line. If we want to
be a championship team,
we’ve got to play like
one.”
The American League
Championship Series
will be at San Diego’s Pet-
co Park, and the NLCS at
Globe Life.
The AL Division Se-
ries will be at San Diego
and Los Angeles’ Dodg-
er Stadium, and the NL
Division Series at Globe
Life and Houston’s Min-
ute Maid Park.
MLB has not made
any determinations on
whether spectators will
be allowed but is hopeful
some percentage of seats
can be filled in Texas.
“In the view of our
infectious disease ex-
perts, the biggest risk
of exposure for players
and staff is contact with
family members and
friends who have been
exposed to COVID-19 in
their communities,” Dep-
uty Commissioner Dan
Halem wrote in a memo
sent to teams Monday
night. “Nearly all of the
positive test results that
have been reported for
players and staff in the
last month can be traced
weekend, and then to try
to play catch-up. I think
that’s been the big thing.”
McIlroy followed his
second FedEx Cup title in
2019 with seven straight
top-10 finishes early in
2020 and moved back to
No. 1 in the world for 10
straight weeks. But since
the PGA Tour resumed
from its stoppage during
the coronavirus pandemic,
McIlroy has mostly been a
nonfactor. In nine events,
his only top 10 finish was
at the Tour Championship,
which has a 30-man field.
The key this week, as
it usually is with McIlroy,
will be his driver.
At the top of his game,
McIlroy is one of the
world’s best off the tee,
hitting towering shots that
sail past his playing part-
ners’ into the middle of
fairways. When the driver
goes awry, McIlroy finds
Class 3A rankings in this
week’s Associated Press
Mississippi high school
football poll, released
Tuesday.
Nine Mississippi me-
dia outlets, including The
Commercial Dispatch,
were polled on the top five
teams in each class and
the top 10 overall. Teams
earned 10 points for a
first-place vote, nine for
a second-place vote and
so on.
The Tigers, who re-
first-place vote, beat Phil-
adelphia 33-13 last week
but were jumped by Co-
lumbia (2-0) for second
place in Class 3A. Jeffer-
son Davis County (2-0)
remained in first place
with six of the eight first-
place votes in the class.
Magee (1-0) and West
Marion (1-1) rounded out
in Rogers’ eagerness to play and ener-
gy on the practice field.
Stadium capacity is expected to
be limited at Tiger Stadium when the
Bulldogs trot out of the tunnel Sept.
26 due to COVID-19-related restric-
tions. But whether it’s under the usual
roar Death Valley normally affords or
tempered shouting, it will be two of
the newest signal-callers in Starkville
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
back to contact with an
infected family mem-
ber, domestic partner, or
friend outside of club fa-
cilities.”
Halem said MLB and
the players’ association
were in the process of
finalizing details of the
agreement, which pro-
vides for players to be
tested daily during the
postseason.
While the NFL plays
the Super Bowl at a neu-
tral site selected in ad-
vance, baseball has re-
sisted the idea.
Before that matchup
in St. Louis in 1944, New
York’s Polo Grounds host-
ed all the games in 1921
and 1922, the last two
seasons it was the home
of both the New York Gi-
ants and Yankees. The
Giants won both titles.
AL teams in mathe-
matical contention are to
start a transition period
on Sept. 22 and NL teams
the following day in
which up to 28 active ros-
ter players, 12 taxi-squad
players and 50 addition-
al personnel ranging
from bullpen catchers to
front-office staff must re-
main at the team’s transi-
tional hotel or travel with
the team on the road.
Under an exception
wanted by the players’
association, any player
who either lives by him-
self, lives with a spouse
or domestic partner who
himself hacking out from
difficult positions, often
scrambling for pars in-
stead of setting up birdies.
Winged Foot has
proven to be one of the
toughest courses in major
championship history —
the 1974 U.S. Open was
called the “Massacre at
Winged Foot” — and the
rough this week is thick
and juicy.
McIlroy was fourth on
tour in driving distance
in the recently conclud-
ed season, averaging 314
yards, but was 155th in ac-
curacy, hitting 56% of the
fairways.
The good news this
week is Winged Foot pro-
vides some opportunities
to run low shots from the
rough up to the greens,
and McIlroy has enough
power to leave driver in
the bag on tighter holes.
“Every course we go
the top five.
Noxubee County will
travel to face West Point
(1-1) on Friday.
In other polls
n Starkville (2-0) re-
mained the No. 1 team in
the state overall but lost
its unanimous standing
as the top team in MH-
SAA Class 6A. Oak Grove
(2-0) earned a first-place
vote in both the overall
and Class 6A polls. South
Panola (2-0), Madison
Central (2-0) and Warren
Central (2-0) rounded out
the top five. The Yellow
Jackets (2-0) will host Me-
ridian (0-2) on Friday.
n — West Point (1-1)
was still the top-ranked
team in Class 5A and No.
4 overall. The Green Wave
beat Tupelo 24-14 on the
road Friday after losing to
leading the way under center when
MSU heads out for its first possession.
“When (Costello) comes off he
says, ‘Oh what did you see?’ or ‘What
were you thinking?’ and when I come
off he tells me what he was thinking,”
Rogers said Tuesday night. “It works
both ways. We work together and I
hope he does great things this year.”
3B
is pregnant or has spe-
cial medical needs doc-
umented by a physician
or is living with children
may quarantine at home
during the transition pe-
riod, with a provision that
MLB will not approve a
large number of requests
to quarantine at home.
Only spouses, domes-
tic partners, children and
child care providers can
stay with players during
the transition period, and
people other than play-
ers may not bring family
to the transition hotel or
on the road. Family mem-
bers will not be allowed
into the bubble hotels at
the four sites unless they
complete a supervised
seven-day quarantine.
Players and their fami-
lies could be in hotels for
5 1/2 weeks.
“It’s going to be tough,
tough on the players,
tough on the families,
just kind of like it’s been
tough for everybody this
year,” New York Yankees
pitcher Gerrit Cole said.
“We’ll just do the best we
can with the protocols
and what MLB decides to
do moving forward.”
A player also may have
up to six family mem-
bers and guests stay at
separate family hotels at
the four sites. MLB said
it will use best efforts to
arrange visits in super-
vised, outdoor places.
to nowadays, it’s the way
that the modern game has
went; the longer you can
hit it, the more advantage
you have,” McIlroy said.
“I’d still take hitting fair-
ways over hitting it 350 in
the rough here.”
Wherever his tee shots
end up or whatever type of
start he gets off to, McIl-
roy may have a better atti-
tude about it.
Fatherhood has way of
putting things into per-
spective.
“I’ve grown up my
whole life dreaming of
winning these tourna-
ments and that’s not going
to change,” he said “But
if it doesn’t quite happen,
I can live with that and go
home and be very happy
and leave what’s happened
at the golf course at the
golf course.”
Starkville 40-28 in Week
1. In Class 5A, West Point
received six first-place
votes, and second-place
West Jones (2-0) received
two. Picayune (2-0) and
Neshoba Central (2-0)
tied for third place, and
Lafayette (1-1) was fifth.
n Heritage Academy
(3-1) remained the fourth-
ranked team among pri-
vate schools. The Patriots
beat Caledonia 28-21 on
Friday. Madison-Ridge-
land Academy (seven
first-place votes) was the
top-ranked private school
team and No. 7 in the
overall rankings. Jackson
Prep (3-0) was second,
Leake Academy (4-0)
was third, and Greenville
Christian (2-0) was fifth
among private schools.
Heritage Academy will
host Bayou Academy (3-
1) on Friday.
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Duvall 10th HR in Sept, Braves top Orioles, pad NL East lead
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BALTIMORE — fourth inning. It was his
Adam Duvall tied a Braves
record with his 10th ho-
mer in September, and
Atlanta used the collective
work of six pitchers to beat
the Baltimore Orioles 5-1
Tuesday night.
Freddie Freeman had
three hits, including a pair
of RBI doubles, to help the
Braves bounce back from
a 14-1 drubbing by Balti-
more one night earlier.
The victory, combined
with Miami’s loss to Bos-
ton, left Atlanta with a 3
1/2-game lead in the NL
East as the abbreviated
60-game schedule nears
its conclusion. The Braves
have 11 games left and Mi-
ami has 14 to go.
Duvall hit a solo shot
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CANDORVILLE
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BEETLE BAILEY
MALLARD FILLMORE
off Thomas Eshelman
(3-1) to make it 2-0 in the
15th home run of the sea-
son and 10th in 15 games
this month, matching the
Braves mark for Septem-
ber shared by sluggers
Dale Murphy (1983) and
Chipper Jones (1999).
The score stayed that
way until Freeman dou-
bled and scored in a three-
run ninth.
With Freeman riding
a 10-game hitting streak,
Duvall regularly going
deep and several others
knocking the ball around,
the Braves have weapons
beyond their formidable
bullpen.
“It’s very impressive,”
Duvall said. “I’ve been on
some good offensive line-
ups, but this one is top tier.
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Day in and day out, you al-
most expect it every day.”
Injuries to several
members of the starting
rotation have forced the
Braves to rely more heav-
ily on their batters, and
for the most part they’ve
delivered.
“It’s been a little sur-
prising,” manager Brian
Snitker said. “They’ve all
gotten it going together. In
our circumstances, thank
God we did. If we had to
pick something to jell with
what we’ve been through,
that’d be the one aspect
we really needed.”
Huascar Ynoa allowed
two hits over four innings
and the bullpen gave up
just two hits the rest of the
way. Former Orioles re-
liever Darren O’Day (4-0)
worked the fifth, the first
of five pitchers to throw
one inning apiece.
Ynoa needed three
more outs to get his first
big league win, but stiff-
ness in his lower back ru-
ined his bid.
“We didn’t want to push
him. We wanted to get out
in front of it,” Snitker said.
It was Atlanta’s first
win at Camden Yards in
11 years, and with a victo-
ry Wednesday the Braves
will earn their first series
win in Baltimore since
2004.
José Iglesias had two
hits and a ninth-inning
RBI for the Orioles, who
have lost six of seven.
Manager Brandon
Hyde was ejected in the
fourth after he emerged
from the dugout to argue
the ruling that Ronald
Dear Abby
D
EAR ABBY:
When I was
a young
adult, I had
difficulty speaking
with strangers. I
recall, some years
later, attending a
party in honor of
someone I truly
admired. Most of
the people there
didn’t know each
other.
Someone had
the bright idea for
each of us to tell
how we knew the Dear Abby
honoree. We went
around the circle describing our
connection to the person. This
not only kept the spotlight on
the honoree, but it was a great
icebreaker. I found myself in-
terested in several of the folks
there, and it gave me fodder
to follow up with questions for
them when we began to mingle.
I learned a valuable lesson
that night. Curiosity is wonder-
ful, and as you have pointed
out, people like to talk about
themselves. Now when I’m in a
room full of strangers, I find it
easier to smile and ask, “How
do you know Susie?” or, “What
brings you to this event?” I am
no longer shy about attending
gatherings where I won’t know
anyone. I actually like meeting
new folks.
Horoscopes
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Sept.
16). Yours will be a year of
sharing — your dreams, your
struggles, the minutia of your
life. The more you share, the
better things get. A bountiful
blessing comes at the end of
October. There’s a lot you do
for other people so be sure to
reserve something for yourself
every bit along the way. You’ll
invest this savings in May.
Sagittarius and Capricorn adore
you. Your lucky numbers are: 7,
30, 33, 1 and 18.
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
Today will test your endurance,
and if you persist, you will pock-
et a prize, tiny in comparison
with the other takeaway, which
is the enormous satisfaction
Acuña Jr. did not swing on
a 3-1 pitch.
“We had some dis-
agreement on a few check
swings,” Hyde said. “A
pretty quick hook.”
Hyde was ejected al-
most as soon as he came
out of the dugout, then
was told by first base um-
pire Brennan Miller that
he was too close in this
age of social distancing.
“It was definitely the
weirdest ejection I’ve ever
been part of,” Hyde said.
Hamels time
The wait is over for
left-hander Cole Hamels,
who is poised to come
off the 45-day injured list
Wednesday night and
pitch for the first time as a
member of the Braves.
Abby, thank
you for your
column and for
offering your
booklet that
teaches people
how to be more
comfortable in
social situations.
I’m sure more
than a few of your
readers need
it. — MIXING AND
MINGLING IN
NAPA, CALIF.
DEAR M
AND M: You’re
welcome. No one
is born know-
ing how to be social. Social
adeptness is a skill like any
other. People don’t have to be
brilliant or a laugh riot. Part of
being social — something you
picked up on at that party — is
the importance of showing an
interest in other people. A smile
is an excellent icebreaker, and
part of being charming is being
a good listener.
Of course, you should culti-
vate your own interests so you
will have something to add to a
conversation. My booklet “How
To Be Popular” contains many
useful tips for polishing social
skills for people of all ages —
how to approach others, what
to say and what not to say.
It can be ordered by sending
your name and address, plus
that comes from knowing you
can count on yourself.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
You’ll deal in a different culture,
not having to do with regions
but with a professional setting
or a social group. It is possible
to remain true to your core and
still let some of the influence
rub off on you.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
There are some things that
cannot be accomplished with
effort. In fact, the more effort
you put into them, the worse
they’ll turn out. To know if this is
the case, pull away; do nothing;
and watch for improvement.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
Give a thought to the environ-
ment you’ll be operating within.
After signing a one-
year contract with Átlan-
ta in December, Hamels
arrived at spring train-
ing with a sore shoulder.
Then, he developed tri-
ceps tendinitis during
summer camp.
The rehab, at long last,
is done.
“Now it’s just a matter of
being around these guys.
That’s the thing you miss
the most,” Hamels said.
“I was able to watch them
play, but you’re not able to
celebrate with them.”
Hamels, 36, has de-
signs on carrying the
Braves into the playoffs
and deep into the postsea-
son. Pitching is what he
does best, and the four-
time All-Star hasn’t done
it competitively since Sep-
tember with the Cubs.
a check or money order for $8
(U.S. funds), to: Dear Abby Pop-
ularity Booklet, P.O. Box 447,
Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447.
Shipping and handling are
included in the price. Good con-
versationalists prioritize what
others have to say rather than
feel pressured to fill the air with
the sound of their own voices.
And remember: Most people
can focus on only one thing at
a time. So forget about yourself
and concentrate on the OTHER
person. If you try it, you’ll find
that it works like a charm.
DEAR ABBY: Why does my
boyfriend always expect me to
help him with his home repairs
when I don’t live there and
don’t plan to for a long while?
I live in my own house, and I
don’t ask him to come help me
fix a downed fence. How should
I handle this situation? — FIXIN’
TO ARGUE IN TEXAS
DEAR FIXIN’: Do not “ar-
gue.” If you prefer not to help
your boyfriend with his home
repairs, tell him you have other
plans. (And if you don’t have
any but don’t want to be con-
scripted, MAKE some.)
Dear Abby is written by
Abigail Van Buren, also known
as Jeanne Phillips, and was
founded by her mother,
Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear
Abby at www.DearAbby.com or
P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles,
CA 90069.
The easier you make it for your-
self, the better you can focus on
the details that will make your
work transcendent from the
usual fare.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). The
desire for freedom is a trap.
Whatever you choose, it comes
with responsibility. The real
freedom is loving your choice
so much you don’t mind being
trapped by it.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
Accept your feelings, one and
all, especially ones that might
make you weak, vulnerable or
unattractive. Approve them,
because it’s the only chance
you have at steering those
emotions.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
While it would be wrong to im-
pose your care, you’ll be dealing
with people who won’t easily
accept what they need. Ask
whether you can help. They’ll
probably say no the first time.
Wait a bit and ask again later.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov.
21). Your appreciation of the
beauty around you is a kind of
meditation now, especially when
you can take it privately, without
having to express with language
what it means to you.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-
Dec. 21). In matters of trust,
someone has to lead, and it will
probably be you. You’ll give your
trust, and the other person will
behave in a trustworthy way.
When you withdraw your trust,
the other person will do the
same.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan.
19). Others won’t see the truth
of the situation until you point it
out. Of course, what you’ll point
out is actually your truth, not the
truth, which is still mysterious.
Your truth is a start.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18). Follow your natural instinct
to assess who gets what and
why. In the animal world, terri-
torial knowledge is a matter of
life and death. For you, it will be
a smart and lucrative thing to
figure out.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20). Jealous people have been
known to do terrible things.
Avoid attracting envy. Keep your
cards close to the vest. Today,
the only one who needs to know
about your assets and accom-
plishments is you.
Wide awake
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At-home
Blueberry cake donuts help get
mornings off to a good start.
culinary.net
tailgate
Breakfast
success with
blueberry
donuts
FAMILY FEATURES

F
rom the first ring of the alarm
to tying shoes and heading
out the door, busy mornings
can be stressful for the entire
family. While many shortcuts exist
to make the start to your day eas-
ier, one simple solution is to have
breakfast ready to eat on the go.
Handheld foods make it easier
to enjoy morning meals while at
the office or in the classroom.
These blueberry cake donuts pro-
vide a tasty way to add sweetness
to your morning as a convenient
breakfast option for starting the
day strong. Just take a few minutes
over the weekend to whip up the
batter and bake before adding a
sweet glaze to take some of the
stress out of the week.
Plus, because they’re a kid fa-
vorite, you won’t have to convince
your little ones it’s important to
eat breakfast before starting a full
day of learning at home or in the
classroom.
Find more breakfast recipes
perfect for busy, on-the-go morn-
ings at Culinary.net.
tasteofhome.com
When you can’t tailgate in The Junction or The Grove, make the best of it with an in-house tailgate spread on
BLUEBERRY CAKE DONUTS game day. These blue cheese potato chips take about 15 minutes to prepare.
1 cup cake flour
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda BY JAN SWOOPE
2 teaspoons baking powder jswoope@cdispatch.com
1/3 cup butter, softened

A
1 cup sugar fter what feels like an interminably
1/4 teaspoon salt, divided long dry spell, football fans are
2 teaspoons vanilla extract, divided
2 eggs, plus 1 egg yolk finally getting a taste of what the
1 cup buttermilk 2020 season will look like. I’m not sure
2 cups blueberries which is more jarring: the sight of empty
2-4 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup milk stands, or the sight of stands peppered
with sparse clumps of people spaced well
n Heat oven to 350 F. apart. In any case, just being able to see
n In large bowl, whisk cake flour, action on the field in the fall, as is tradi-
all-purpose flour, baking soda and baking
powder. tional, is welcome after so many traditions
n In large bowl or stand mixer bowl, beat of spring and summer — graduations to
butter, sugar, 1/8 teaspoon salt and 1 vacations — fell by the wayside.
teaspoon vanilla until fluffy. Add eggs and My diehard tailgating friends are feel-
yolk; mix until creamy. Alternate adding
buttermilk and flour mixture until blended. ing the loss, however. Football, for many
n Remove bowl from stand mixer, add of them, is all about setting up in The
blueberries and stir until combined. Junction or The Grove, socializing and
n Fill piping bag with batter. Fill mini-do- snacking, then socializing some more.
nut pan cavities about halfway. Bake 8-10
minutes. Cool completely. They enjoy the prep and the packing,
n In medium bowl, whisk 1 cup powdered the hunt for team-themed serving dishes
sugar, milk, remaining salt and remaining and disposable dinnerware. They relish
vanilla extract. Add additional 1-3 cups
powdered sugar until mixture reaches menu-planning and decorating.
desired thickness. See TAILGATE, 6B
n Dip cooled donuts in glaze and place
on wired rack to drip off excess.
Substitution: If cake flour isn’t available,
measure 1 cup all-purpose flour and re-
move 2 tablespoons. Add 2 tablespoons
cornstarch.

Kid-friendly recipes for at-home learning A fall finger

FAMILY FEATURES
food for dessert
D
uring a school year that’s sure to be a
new experience for students and parents FAMILY FEATURES
alike, many of the everyday necessi-

ties, like eating breakfast and lunch, remain.
However, this year, many little learners will be
enjoying their lunches from the comfort and
safety of home rather than at school, meaning
moms and dads are back in charge of keeping
the kitchen running throughout the day.
According to a survey conducted by One-
Poll in conjunction with Sabra, 74 percent of
caregivers expect this school year to be more
chaotic than ever and 64 percent of moms and
dads complain they are dreading becoming the
“lunch lady” at home.
You can improve those school day blues
with quick, kid-friendly recipes that refuel
children for their educational explorations. By
providing a steady stream of balanced meals
and snacks made with wholesome ingredients,
you can feel good about boosting your at-home
students’ learning capabilities even during
these tricky times.
See KID-FRIENDLY, 6B
P
umpkin is the flavor of the
season when fall comes
around, especially when used
in heartwarming desserts and
sweet treats the whole family can
enjoy.
This autumn, when your loved
ones start searching the kitchen
for sweets, you can turn to Spiced
Pumpkin Carrot Cheesecake
Cupcakes for a tasty handheld way
to appease those festive cravings.
Combining pumpkin quick bread
with a handful of household in-
gredients, this easy recipe makes
it simple to serve up traditional
tastes in a matter of minutes.
Plus, with kid-friendly instruc-
tions that call for minimal com-
familyfeatures.com plicated tasks, the whole family
This hummus flatbread pizza takes only 10 to 15 minutes to make. See DESSERT, 6B
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Tailgate
Continued from Page 5B
“I’m not sure I’ll know what
to do with myself on game
days,” said Bulldog tailgater
Paula Bennett of Oktibbeha
County. “This whole season
is going to be such an adjust-
ment.”
An alternative for most will
be what might be called an at-
home tailgate. Whether it’s just
for family, or whatever Gov.
Reeves’ maximum number of
people indoors is this week,
food is still an important part of
game day.
Today’s compiled recipes of-
fer up quick appetizers to fuel
the fans in your house. A recipe
for Cowboy Caviar is included
because, well, you know, Dak.
(Perhaps you saw the photo of
the Dallas Cowboys QB and
former Mississippi State stand-
out arriving for Sunday’s Week
1 NFL game wearing a Bulldog
face mask?)
Fall is knocking on our
door; football confirms it. It
provides a bit of encourage-
ment that “life,” as we’ve come
to expect it, is hopefully a little
closer to righting itself. So,
here’s to your team, whoever it
may be.
BLUE CHEESE POTATO CHIPS
Prep/total time: 15 minutes
Makes 10 servings
1 package (8-1/2 ounces) ket-
tle-cooked potato chips
2 medium tomatoes, seeded and
chopped
8 bacon strips, cooked and crumbled
6 green onions, chopped
1 cup crumbled blue cheese
n Preheat broiler. In a 15-by-10-by-
1-inch baking pan, arrange potato
chips in an even layer. Top with
remaining ingredients.
n Broil 4-5 inches from heat until
cheese begins to melt, 2-3 minutes.
Serve immediately.
(Source: tasteofhome.com/Bonnie
Hawkins)
BAKED MOZZARELLA STICKS
Makes 6 servings
1 (12-ounce) package reduced-fat
mozzarella string cheese
1 egg
1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
8 tablespoons panko (Japanese)
bread crumbs
1/2 cup prepared spaghetti sauce,
warmed (optional)
n Position rack in upper-third of
oven and preheat oven to 350 F. Line
a baking sheet with foil and spray
lightly with cooking spray.
n Remove cheese from packaging
and set aside. In a small bowl,
whisk egg until foamy. In a small
nonstick skillet, mix Italian seasoning
with bread crumbs and place over
medium heat. Cook and stir bread
crumbs until lightly browned, about 5
minutes.
n Dip one piece of string cheese in
egg until coated and then into toast-
ed bread crumbs, coating completely.
Redip the string cheese in egg and
again into the bread crumbs, if de-
sired. Place on baking sheet.
n Repeat with remaining string
cheese and place on baking sheet
1 1/2 inches apart. Spray string
cheese lightly with cooking spray.
Bake 5-6 minutes until heated
through.
(Note: The cheese may melt slightly
and lose shape. Simply press it back
into place. Serve immediately. Pair
with warmed spaghetti sauce as a
dip.)
(Source: NDSU Extension Service,
ag.ndsu.edu)
COWBOY CAVIAR
1 tablespoon oil (canola, olive, or
vegetable)
1 tablespoon cider vinegar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 can (15 ounces) beans (drained
and rinsed)
3/4 cup frozen corn, thawed
1/2 cup onion, diced (1/2 medium
onion)
1/2 cup bell pepper, diced (1/2
medium bell pepper)
1 cup tomatoes, chopped (1 medium
tomato)
1 avocado, chopped
n Whisk oil, vinegar, lemon juice,
and mustard in a small bowl.
n Stir beans, corn, onion, bell pep-
per, and tomatoes in a medium bowl.
n Pour liquids over bean mixture.
Cover. Refrigerate until ready to
serve.
n Add avocado just before serving.
Gently stir to combine. Serve with
tortilla chips, or serve as a filling for
tortilla or lettuce wraps. Change up
flavors by adding different ingredients
like salt and pepper, garlic powder,
cilantro or chili powder.)
(Source: spendsmart.extension.
iastate.edu)
HAWAIIAN CHEESE BALL
2 pounds or 4 8-ounce packages
cream cheese
1 (8.5 ounce) can crushed pineapple,
drained well
1 1/2 cups finely chopped green
pepper
2 tablespoons chopped green onion
1 tablespoon seasoning salt
Chopped nuts
n Mix all ingredients and shape into
ball. Roll in 1 cup of chopped nuts.
(Source: “A Taste of Grace,” Grace
Baptist Church, Columbus; Eleanor
King)
HOT POPPER DIP
2 (8-ounce) packages cream cheese,
room temperature
1 cup mayonnaise
1 cup Mexican blend shredded
cheese
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
1 (4 ounce) can diced green chilies
1 (4 ounce) can diced jalapenos
or 4 fresh jalapenos, seeded and
chopped
1 cup Panko crumbs
1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
1/4 cup butter, melted
n Mix first six ingredients, put into
a 2-quart greased baking dish. Mix
Panko, remaining Parmesan and
melted butter, sprinkle over cheese
and pepper mixture.
n Bake at 375 degrees for 20
minutes. Serve warm with chips,
crackers or baguette slices.
(Source: uaex.edu)

Kid-friendly
Continued from Page 5B
In the morning, try starting with
this chocolate banana cinnamon toast
recipe from Tabitha Brown, the actress
and vegan foodie known as “Ameri-
ca’s Mom.” Sliced banana powers this
breakfast with the rich, decadent taste
of Sabra Dark Chocolate Dessert Dip
& Spread to thrill chocolate lovers for a
combination of flavors kids love.
For a lunchtime solution with easy
prep and quick cleanup, a hummus
flatbread pizza takes just 10-15 minutes
to make. Made with easy-to-find ingre-
dients you can keep on-hand like pizza
sauce and hummus, simply top with
sweet favorites like pineapple for a fun
boost for long days of learning.
To find more at-home recipe inspira-
tion, visit sabra.com.
HUMMUS FLATBREAD PIZZA
Prep time: 10-15 minutes
Yield: 1 flatbread
4 teaspoons pizza sauce
1 rectangular flatbread
3 tablespoons Sabra Classic Hummus
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder, divided
1/3 cup pineapple tidbits or fresh pineapple
pieces
Strawberries
Chopped romaine lettuce
English cucumber slices
n Preheat oven to 500 F.
n Brush pizza sauce to edges of flatbread.
Swirl to spread hummus to edges of flatbread.
Sprinkle 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder over flat-
bread. If using canned pineapple tidbits, drain
and pat dry with paper towel. Add pineapple
tidbits to flatbread and sprinkle with remaining
garlic powder.
n Bake 5-10 minutes, or until flatbread is light
golden brown.
n Cool and cut flatbread. Serve with straw-
berries and mix chopped romaine lettuce and
English cucumber slices for simple salad.
(Source: Recipe courtesy of Tabitha Brown)
CHOCOLATE BANANA
CINNAMON TOAST
Prep time: 10-15 minutes
Yield: 2 pieces toast
2 slices cinnamon raisin bread
3 tablespoons Sabra Dark Chocolate Dessert
Dip & Spread
6 banana slices, plus additional for serving
(optional)
1/8 teaspoon cinnamon powder
1 tablespoon maple syrup
Fresh strawberries (optional) familyfeatures.com
Powdered sugar Cinnamon raisin bread, chocolate and bananas flavor this morning toast.
n Toast bread to desired doneness.
n Using spoon, swirl to spread 1 1/2 table-
spoons chocolate spread on each slice of
toast.
n Add banana slices to one slice of toast and
sprinkle with cinnamon. Top with second slice
of toast.
n Slice in half diagonally. Add to plate with
extra sliced banana and fresh strawberries,
if desired. Drizzle toast with maple syrup and
sprinkle with powdered sugar.
(Source: Recipe courtesy of Tabitha Brown)

Dessert
Continued from Page 5B
can enjoy creating these
cupcake masterpieces to-
gether as a celebration of
moments spent together.
Find more seasonal
desserts at culinary.net.

SPICED PUMPKIN
CARROT CHEESECAKE
CUPCAKES
Serves: 12

1 box (14 ounces) pumpkin

quick bread, divided
1 cup carrots, shredded
3 eggs, divided
3/4 cup milk
1/2 cup golden raisins
2 tablespoons canola oil
1 package (8 ounces) cream
cheese, softened
2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 cup pecans, chopped
3 tablespoons butter, soft-
ened
n Heat oven to 350 F. Line
Welcome autumn by making spiced pumpkin carrot
cheesecake cupcakes.
muffin tin with cupcake liners.
n In large bowl, stir 1/2
pumpkin quick bread package,
carrots, 1 egg, milk, raisins
and oil until blended. Fill each
cupcake liner 3/4 full.
n In medium bowl, beat cream
cheese, remaining eggs, sugar
and lemon juice until smooth.
Spoon cream cheese mixture
culinary.net
over cupcake batter.
n In medium bowl, use fork
to combine remaining bread
package mix, pecans and
butter until crumbly. Sprinkle
evenly over cream cheese in
each cup.
n Bake 25 minutes. Cool
completely on wire rack.

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NIFER OWENS
PETITIONERS
CAUSE NO. 2020-365B
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
TO: LATASHA LABELLE TERRY,
NATURAL MOTHER OF B.T.T.
TO: BOBBY RAY REEVES, LEG-
AL FATHER OF B.T.T.
TO: PUTATIVE FATHER OF
B.T.T., A MINOR CHILD
DEFENDANTS
All defendants are not to be
found and their residence is
not to be known after diligent
search and inquiry and the post (Radius: 124.7 feet, Chord
office address of the defend-
ants is not known to the peti-
tioners after diligent search
and inquiry.
You have been made a Defend- drive a distance of 60.0 feet to
ant in the suit filed in this
Jennifer Owens, same being a along said centerline a dis-
Petition for Termination of Par- tance of 32.7 feet to the point
ental Rights.
You are summoned to appear
tion and/or Complaint filed in
19TH day of OCTOBER, 2020,
in the Chancery Courtroom of
the Monroe County Court-
house at Aberdeen, Missis-
sippi, and in the case of your
failure to appear and defend, a South, Range 18 West,
judgement will be entered
manded in the Petition. You are scribed as being 15 feet right
not required to file and answer of and 15 feet left of the follow-
or other pleading but you may
do so if you desire.
seal of said Court, this 8th day east Quarter (SE ¼) of said
of September, A.D., 2020.
Chancery Clerk of Monroe
County, Mississippi
(SEAL)
PUBLISH: 9/16, 9/23 &
9/30/2020
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
COUNTY OF LOWNDES
NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE
SALE
On September 4, 2014, KIM-
BERLY JILL ROSS, Grantor, ex- Run thence North 89 degrees
ecuted and delivered to JEF-
FREY C. SMITH, Trustee, for
the use and benefit of
CLAUSON S. CHISM REVOC-
ABLE TRUST, a Deed of Trust
covering the property de-
scribed herein which is recor-
ded in Trust Deed Book 2014
18506 of the land records of
Lowndes County, Mississippi.
There was a default in the pay- curve to the right a distance of
ment of the indebtedness se-
cured by the Deed of Trust, and Chord bearing: North 41 de-
the owner and holder of the
Deed of Trust requested the
undersigned to foreclose the
Deed of Trust and sell the prop- West a distance of XX.X feet to
erty described herein for collec- the point of beginning of the
18th day of September 2020,
fer for sale and will sell at pub- the centerline of a gravel drive;
lic auction to the highest and
best bidder for cash, at the
eastern front door of the
Lowndes County Courthouse in isting cul-de-sac of a county
Columbus, Mississippi, the
which is situated in Lowndes
County, Mississippi, and more
particularly described as fol-
lows:
A tract of land being located in
the Southwest Quarter (SW ¼) WITNESS MY SIGNATURE on
of the Southeast Quarter (SE
¼) of Section 12, Township 19 2020.
South, Range 18 West,
Lowndes County, Mississippi
and more particularly de-
scribed as follows:
Commencing at the Southeast September 2, 2020
corner of the Southwest
Quarter (SW ¼) of the South-
east Quarter (SE ¼) of said
Section 12; Run thence West
along the South line of said
Section a distance of 15 feet
to a point on the West right-of-
way of a public road known as
Hughes Road; Run thence
South 00 degrees 21 minutes
East along said right-of-way a
distance of 295.00 feet to a
point; Run thence South 77 de-
grees 02 minutes West a dis-
tance of 532.00 feet to a
fence corner; Run thence North
37 degrees 07 minutes West a
distance of 314.7 feet to a
point; Run thence North 10 de-
grees 03 minutes West a dis-
tance of 608.8 feet to a point;
Run thence North 89 degrees
35 minutes West a distance of
68.2 feet to a point in a gravel
drive and the point of begin-
ning of the herein described
The best place for personalized
tract; Run thence South 88 de-
grees 55 minutes West a dis-
tance of 401.9 feet to a fence
corner post; Run thence North
advertising in your community.
01 degrees 34 minutes West a
distance of 555.5 feet to a
point; Run thence North 89 de-
grees 12 minutes East and
along the projection of a wire
fence a distance of 466.7 feet
to a point; Run thence South
01 degrees 34 minutes East a
distance of 460.3 feet to a
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point in the centerline of an ex-
isting gravel drive way; Run
thence Southwesterly along
said centerline and a curve to
the left a distance of 21.5 feet
(Radius: 124.7 feet, Chord
bearing: South 41 degrees 31
minutes West – 21.5 feet) to a
point; Run thence South 36 de-
grees 35 minutes West along
the centerline of said gravel
drive a distance of 60.0 feet to
a point; run thence South 22
degrees 03 minutes West
along said centerline a dis-
tance of 32.7 feet to the point
of beginning and containing 5.9
acres, more or less.
Together with and including the
following access easement:
A thirty (30) feet wide tract of
land to be used as an access
easement and being located in
the Southwest Quarter (SW ¼)
of the Southeast Quarter (SE
A tract of land being located in
Commencing at the Southeast
corner of the Southwest
Quarter (SW ¼) of the South-
east Quarter (SE ¼) of said
Section 12; Run thence West
along the South line of said
Section a distance of 15 feet
to a point on the West right-of-
way of a public road known as
Hughes Road; Run thence
South 00 degrees 21 minutes
East along said right-of-way a
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distance of 295.00 feet to a
point; Run thence South 77 de-
grees 02 minutes West a dis-
tance of 532.00 feet to a
fence corner; Run thence North
37 degrees 07 minutes West a
distance of 314.7 feet to a
point; Run thence North 10 de-
grees 03 minutes West a dis-
tance of 608.8 feet to a point;
Run thence North 89 degrees
68.2 feet to a point in a gravel
drive and the point of begin-
ning of the herein described
tract; Run thence South 88 de-
grees 55 minutes West a dis-
tance of 401.9 feet to a fence
corner post; Run thence North
01 degrees 34 minutes West a
distance of 555.5 feet to a
point; Run thence North 89 de-
grees 12 minutes East and
along the projection of a wire
fence a distance of 466.7 feet
to a point; Run thence South
01 degrees 34 minutes East a
distance of 460.3 feet to a
point in the centerline of an ex-
isting gravel drive way; Run
thence Southwesterly along
said centerline and a curve to
the left a distance of 21.5 feet
bearing: South 41 degrees 31
minutes West – 21.5 feet) to a
point; Run thence South 36 de-
grees 35 minutes West along
the centerline of said gravel
a point; run thence South 22
of beginning and containing 5.9
acres, more or less.
Together with and including the
following access easement:
land to be used as an access
easement and being located in
the Southwest Quarter (SW ¼)
of the Southeast Quarter (SE
¼) of Section 12, Township 19
Lowndes County, Mississippi
and more particularly de-
ing described line:
Commencing at the Southeast
corner of the Southwest
Section 12; Run thence West
along the South line of said
Section a distance of 15 feet
to a point on the West right-of-
way of a public road known as
Hughes Road; Run thence
South 00 degrees 21 minutes
East along said right-of-way a
distance of 295.0 feet to a
point; Run thence South 77 de-
grees 02 minutes West a dis-
tance of 532.0 feet to a fence
corner; Run thence North 37
degrees 07 minutes West a
distance of 314.7 feet to a
point; Run thence North 10 de-
grees 03 minutes West a dis-
tance of 608.8 feet to a point;
35 minutes West a distance of
68.2 feet to a point in the
gravel drive; Run thence North
22 degrees 03 minutes East
along the centerline of said
gravel drive a distance of 32.7
feet to a point; run thence
North 36 degrees 35 minutes
East along said centerline a
distance of 60.0 feet to a
point; Run thence Northeast-
erly along said centerline and a
21.5 feet (Radius: 124.7 feet,
grees 31 minutes East – 21.5
feet) to a point; Run thence
North 01 degrees 34 minutes
herein described easement
centerline; Run thence South
52 degrees 20 minutes East a
point; Run thence South 82 de-
tance of 53.3 feet to a point on
Run thence North 80 degrees
16 minutes East a distance of
224.2 feet to a point on an ex-
road known as Chism Road
and the end of the herein de-
scribed easement line.
Title to the property is believed
to be good, but I will sell only
such title as is vested in me.
this the 21st day of August
/s/ Jeffrey C. Smith
JEFFREY C. SMITH, Trustee
PUBLISH: August 26, 2020
September 9, 2020
September 16, 2020
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SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE’S NO-
TICE OF SALE
WHEREAS, on October 21,
1999, Michael David McCrory,
a single person, executed a
deed of trust to Bobbe Burkhal-
ter, Trustee for the benefit of
Secretary of Veterans Affairs,
which deed of trust is recor-
ded in Deed of Trust Book
1297 at Page 374 in the Of-
fice of the Chancery Clerk of
the County of Lowndes, State
of Mississippi; and
WHEREAS, the aforesaid deed
of trust was assigned to
Bankers Trust Company of Cali-
fornia, N.A., not in its individu-
al capacity but solely as Trust-
ee, or its permitted suc-
cessors and assigns, on be-
half Vendee Mortgage Trust
(2000-1) by instrument dated
February 24, 2000, and recor-
ded in the Office of the afore-
said Chancery Clerk in Book
1317 at Page 245; and
WHEREAS, the aforesaid,
Deutsche Bank National Trust
Company formerly known as
Bankers Trust Company of Cali-
fornia, N.A., as Trustee of
Vendee Mortgage Trust 2000-
1, the holder of said deed of
trust and the note secured
thereby, substituted Under-
wood Law Firm PLLC, as Trust-
ee therein, as authorized by
the terms thereof, by instru-
ment dated August 17, 2020
and recorded in the Office of
the aforesaid Chancery Clerk in
Book 2020 at Page 20260;
and
WHEREAS, default having been
made in the terms and condi-
tions of said deed of trust and
the entire debt secured
thereby, having been declared
to be due and payable in ac-
cordance with the terms of said
deed of trust, and the legal
holder of said indebtedness,
Deutsche Bank National Trust
Company formerly known as
Bankers Trust Company of Cali-
fornia, N.A., as Trustee of
Vendee Mortgage Trust 2000-
1, having requested the under-
signed Substituted Trustee to
execute the trust and sell said
land and property in accord-
ance with the terms of said
deed of trust for the purpose of
raising the sums due thereun-
der, together with attorney’s
fees, Substituted Trustee’s
fees and expense of sale;
NOW, THEREFORE, WE, Under-
wood Law Firm PLLC, Substi-
tuted Trustee in said deed of
trust, will on the 7th day of Oc-
tober, 2020, offer for sale at
public outcry for cash to the
highest bidder, and sell within
legal hours (being between the
hours of 11:00 A.M. and 4:00
P.M.) at the Main front door of
the County Courthouse at
Columbus, County of Lowndes,
State of Mississippi, the follow-
ing described property situated
in the County of Lowndes,
State of Mississippi, to-wit:
Lot Twelve (12), of Green Acres
Subdivision, Second Extension,
to the City of Columbus,
Lowndes County, Mississippi,
as shown by the map or plat of
same recorded in Plat Book 2
at Page 80 in the Office of the
Chancery Clerk of Lowndes
County, Mississippi.
WE WILL CONVEY only such
title as is vested in Underwood
Law Firm PLLC as Substituted
Trustee.
WITNESS OUR SIGNATURE,
this the 10th day of Septem-
ber, 2020.
Underwood Law Firm PLLC
SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE
Control# McCrory,
Michael/CMS
PUBLISH: 09/16/2020,
09/23/2020, 09/30/2020
BEFORE THE MISSISSIPPI PUB-
LIC SERVICE COMMISSION
2020-UN-125
TOWN OF CALEDONIA
WM003071400
IN RE: NOTICE OF THE TOWN
OF CALEDONIA WATER AND
SEWER DEPARTMENT'S IN-
TENT TO INCREASE WATER
RATES ONLY FOR SERVICE IN
ITS CERTIFICATED AREA
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that on
the 9th day of September,
2020, Town of Caledonia filed
with the Mississippi Public Ser-
vice Commission the above ref-
erenced matter.
Any person desiring to particip-
ate in or receive further notice
of these proceedings is re-
quired under RP 6.121 of the
Public Utility Rules of Practice
and Procedure of Mississippi
Public Service Commission and
Public Utilities Staff to file a
written petition to intervene on
or before twenty (20) days from
the publication date of this no-
tice.
This cause is returnable to the
regular meeting of the Commis-
sion to be held at 10:00 A.M.,
Tuesday, October 6, 2020, at
the Mississippi Public Service
Commission Hearing Room,
1st Floor, Woolfolk State Of-
fice Building, Jackson, Missis-
sippi. If a hearing is required,
the Commission, by sub-
sequent order, will set a time
and place for said hearing. This
cause is subject to being set
for disposition on a hearing
date not less than twenty (20)
days from the date of publica-
tion of this Notice. If protest,
answer or other appropriate
pleading is on file in response
to this matter, the Commis-
sion will consider same on said
hearing date.
WITNESS MY HAND AND THE
OFFICIAL SEAL of the Missis-
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sion, on this, the 14th day of
September 2020. results and highlighted online.
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OF CALEDONIA WATER AND
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ate in or receive further notice
of these proceedings is re- If any person wishes Maintenance Technician
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Public Utility Rules of Practice to request a hearing turer. Electrical back-
and Procedure of Mississippi
Public Service Commission and
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written petition to intervene on ants should be familiar w/
or before twenty (20) days from
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the publication date of this no- must be made in writ- chinery & PLC’s, have good
tice. problem solving skills & be
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regular meeting of the Commis-
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the Mississippi Public Service
Commission Hearing Room, first date this notice
1st Floor, Woolfolk State Of- was published. Re-
fice Building, Jackson, Missis-
quests shall be sent
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sippi. If a hearing is required,
the Commission, by sub-
sequent order, will set a time
to:
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cause is subject to being set Chief Counsel, Legal Ads starting at $25
for disposition on a hearing
date not less than twenty (20) Division, Dept of Rev-
days from the date of publica- Apts For Rent: North
tion of this Notice. If protest,
enue, P.O. Box
answer or other appropriate 22828, Jackson, MS FOX RUN APARTMENTS
pleading is on file in response
to this matter, the Commis- 39225. 1 & 2 BR near hospital.
$595−$645 monthly.
sion will consider same on said Military discount, pet area,
hearing date.
Date of first publica- pet friendly, and furnished
WITNESS MY HAND AND THE tion Tuesday, corporate apts.
OFFICIAL SEAL of the Missis- 24−HOUR PROFESSIONAL
sippi Public Service Commis- September 15, 2020. GYM. ON SITE SECURITY.
sion, on this, the 14th day of ON SITE MAINTENANCE.
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September 2020. SURVEILLANCE. Benji &
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2 Bedroooms
mit as provided for by
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CONSTRUCTION LABORERS
the Local Option Alco- Local residential contract-
holic Beverage Con- or looking for laborers. Ex-
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1-1, et seq., of the
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mit, we propose to FIRST CUMBERLAND PRES-
BYTERIAN CHURCH seeks
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tion under the trade ing worship. The pianist Apts For Rent: Other
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name of Cracker Bar- hymns and accompanying
rel located at 592 congregational singing.
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Email resume to
bus, MS 39705. fcpcsecretary@gmail.com
The names and ad-
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are Sandra Brophy WANTED: Full Time Industri-
Cochran, CEO/Presid- al Journeyman Electrician
with experience in conduit
ent; Jill Moran Golder,
installing, pull wire, read
CFO; and Richard Mi- drawings, repair lights,
chael Wolfson Sr., make terminations & trou-
VP/Secretary/Gener- bleshoot electrical prob-
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al Counsel; 305 Hart- a plus. 401k, paid insur-
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If any person wishes
Medical / Dental a hearing
to request
to object to the issu-
ance of this permit, a
request for a hearing
must be made in writ-
ing and received by
the Department of
Revenue within (15)
fifteen days from the
first date this notice
was published. Re-
quests shall be sent
to:
Chief Counsel, Legal
Division, Dept of Rev-
enue, P.O. Box
22828, Jackson, MS
39225.
Date of first publica-
tion Tuesday,
September 15, 2020.
This the 1st day of
September 2020.
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662−549−7230. Akc German Shepard
Puppies − Black and tan,
General Merchandise very smart and great with
kids, with papers and 1st

from home with

shots, available Oct 1st,
For Sale: 15 picture frames non refundable deposit
$1 ea. Old Steamer Trunk required, $250! $500.
$100. Cedar wardrobe 662−341−0862
$75. KS Flannel sheets,

the Classifieds.
2sets $25 ea. 16 Royal
Swirl Fine China Plates
$30. 10 Margarita glasses
$20. 4 wine & 4 cham− Need a new
pagne glasses $10 ea set.
662−570−1730 companion?
MEN’S SPORT COATS,
name brand, size 42 short.
All in excellent condition. ACROSS
$20 each. 662−386−4707 1 Jokes
5 Officers above
captains
Vehicles 11 Stepped
down
12 Like Berg’s
Ads starting at $12
music
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Autos For Sale
When looking taxes
2012 Red Cadillac CTS 14 Ant group

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Coup, 3.5 engine, loaded,
65k hwy mi only, new tires, 15 Chopping tool
fully serviced & well− 16 Pretzel
maintained. $28,000.
662−726−1649. adoption is topping
17 Unhappy look
always a 19 Bar bill

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good option. 24 Comet’s

place
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23 Continental
coin
26 Mystique 2 Baseball’s 25 Rain heavily
27 Gumbo Rodriguez 29 Bogus
Promote your small business starting at only $25 veggie 3 Cares 30 Status —
28 Make wavy 4 Pig’s place 33 Oxygen form
Carpet & Flooring General Services General Services Lawn Care / Landscaping
Five Questions: 30 Hive head 5 Raucous bird 34 Foundation
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Bucket truck & stump No lawn too large or too 32 Day divisions 7 Sudden shock Bartók
removal. Free est.
Serving Columbus
small. Mowing, trimming &
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since 1987. Senior
citizen disc. Call Alvin @
Call 662−243−1694
Family” 35 Jackson 5 hit
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9 Galloped
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38 Spoil
39 Angry state
242−0324/241−4447 Painting & Papering
"We’ll go out on a limb for 41 Notion 16 Sinking signal 40 Jar part
2 Salad
you!" QUALITY PAINTING. 42 Out of bed 18 Pack full 41 Altar promise
Ext/Int Painting.
43 Kitchen herb 19 Swims
dressing
DAVID’S CARPET & Sheet Rock Hang, Finish &
UPHOLSTERY WORK WANTED: Licensed Repair. Pressure Washing. 44 Overnight 20 Land unit
CLEANING & Bonded. Carpentry, minor Free Estimates. Ask for flight 21 Noggin
FALL SPECIAL electrical, minor plumbing, specials! Larry Webber,
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3 Trevi
4 Rooms − $99
Carpet − Rugs − Cars lition, gutters cleaned,
Call for more info! pressure washing, land−
Fountain
SULLIVAN’S PAINT
662−722−1758 scaping, cleanup work. SERVICE
662−242−3608. Special Prices.
Interior & Exterior Painting.
Lawn Care / Landscaping 662−435−6528
JESSE & BEVERLY’S Tree Services 4 Smiling
platypus
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5 Braising
662−356−6525 Call Jimmy Prescott for free
estimate, 662−386−6286.

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