Yazoo City High senior Jonquil Dent has earned a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Scholarship based on her outstanding academic performance. Dent plans to study medicine at Howard University. By JAMIE PATTERSON
Managing Editor

A Yazoo City High School student was among the top students in the nation to receive the Gates Millennium Scholarship.
Jonquil Dent, 18, is just one of a thousand students across the country who will receive a good-through-graduation scholarship thanks to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Dent is the daughter of Keith Dent and Regina Richardson.
The Yazoo City native said she will use her scholarship to pursue her dream of becoming a neurosurgeon at Howard University in Washington D.C.
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By JASON PATTERSON
Editor & Publisher

Clark Carter has been named Yazoo County’s road manager.
Carter was appointed Monday by the Board of Supervisors to replace Owen Graves, who recently retired.
District 1 Supervisor Caleb Rivers cast the sole vote against hiring Carter.
“It’s nothing against him,” Rivers said after the vote.
Rivers later explained that he thinks the county should have done a more thorough job of searching for the most qualified candidate for such an important position.
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By VERNON SIKES
Herald Correspondent

Angela Hudson, federal programs director for the Yazoo County School District, told board members Tuesday that the district will experience a federal funding cut for the year.
“This year we're going to have a pretty good cut, it looks like,” Hudson said. “We were basing on our preliminary allocations for the FY14 school year off of 85 percent of what we got last year. We're pretty much thinking we're not going to get what we got last year.”
According to figures on a handout distributed during the meeting, with this year's Title I federal allocation of $1,066,885, the FY14 allocation will be $906,852, which is 85 percent of the FY13 allocation. Of that amount, $716,413 will be allocated for free and reduced price lunches, $181,370 for administration and $9,069 for parental involvement.
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Ezra Browder, William Small and Shelby Hudson (from left) participate in the Trash Bash.By JAMIE PATTERSON
Managing Editor

The highways within Yazoo County were lined with workers Wednesday in an effort to beautify the community.
The Mississippi Department of Transportation held its annual Trash Bash event with hundreds of workers picking up trash and litter from the highways.
It marks the 23rd year for the MDOT District Three program. Yazoo County was among 11 counties in the state to participate in the event.
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