By VERNON SIKES
Herald Correspondent

Following their expressions of concern in Tuesday's meeting, Yazoo City Public Service Commission (PSC) officials resolved to beef up their delinquent account collection techniques. One commissioner said she wasn't so much concerned with the past due amounts as with the number of days customers are allowed to stay in arrears.
“I'm not concerned about how high the bill is,” Commissioner Edna Rogers said. “I'm concerned about why they are 120 days (delinquent) and over. If you can't pay (your PSC bill after) one month or two months, how are you going to get the money at the end of four months or longer?”
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County considers reducing speed limit and eliminating all passing zones on Old Benton Road

By JASON PATTERSON
Editor & Publisher

Many things have changed about Old Benton Road since it was part of Highway 16.
These days it’s mostly a residential road with driveways from end to end.
It’s also more dangerous with faded and sometimes nonexistent striping and vegetation obscuring the shoulder of the road in places.
But one thing that often hasn’t changed is the speed of traffic traveling down the road.
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Gerald Peyton’s performance as a pitcher at Yazoo High in 1990 earned him a college baseball scholarship. Today he helps his players follow their dreams.By JASYLN SNOW
Herald Reporter

Gerald Peyton has been a diehard baseball fan all of his life, and now he helps younger players share his love of the game.  
“I grew up around a baseball oriented family,” said Peyton. “I would watch my uncles play with the Ofahoma Braves (Leake County) on a field constructed on land that my grandfather donated.”  
Although he watched his uncles play, Peyton got his real start with his mother, Mrs. Myra Peyton, in the front yard of their family home.  
“I had an older brother who was born crippled, and my mom would sit in the yard and hold him with one hand and throw me ground balls with the other,” said Peyton. “I would then have to run the ball back to her and then run back to my spot.”
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Mock exercise will be held at Yazoo County High next Thursday at 9 a.m.

By JAMIE PATTERSON
Managing Editor

Yazoo County emergency officials will hold a mock shooter exercise next week at Yazoo County High School.
The Yazoo County Emergency Management Agency planned the exercise before news of the Connecticut school shooting made headlines last month. With 26 people killed during that tragic incident, local officials feel it is better to be prepared.
“This event was actually planned prior to the tragedy that took place in Sandy Hook, Connecticut,” said Yazoo County EMA Director Bernice McGinnis. “The Yazoo County School District wanted to take a proactive approach in an effort to be better prepared if such a terrible incident were to occur in this county.”
The exercise will be held at the high school on Jan. 17, beginning at 9 a.m.
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