StraughterBy JASON PATTERSON
Editor & Publisher

Mayor McArthur Straughter said crafting this year’s city budget was the least fun he’s had since 2007.
In 2007 the city had to make 10 percent salary cuts across the board. Straughter said that was the only way to avoid a $400,000 deficit.
This time the city didn’t have to make the unpopular decision to cut salaries or reduce personnel, but spending had to be reduced.
“In order to balance the budget, each department had to cut its budget by five percent,” Straughter said. “We asked the department heads to make the cuts, and if they didn’t we were going to do it for them.”
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Ronda RichBy JASON PATTERSON
Editor & Publisher

Ronda Rich, whose Dixie Divas column regularly appears in The Yazoo Herald, will be in Yazoo City Oct. 6 to sign copies of her latest book, There’s A Better Day A-Comin’.
Rich will appear at Downtown Marketplace from 4-6 p.m.
The author says she is looking forward to returning to Yazoo to meet old friends and make some new ones.
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Kathryn Dooley is crowned Benton Academy’s 2012 homecoming queen by 2011 queen Shelby Soyars. Pictured with the queens from left are Hank Moore, Nathan Bigford, Whitney Whitworth and David Dooley.

McGeeBy JAMIE PATTERSON
Managing Editor

An escaped inmate was captured within five hours thanks to investigators pounding the pavement.
Allen McGee was charged with felony escape.
Capt. Willie Hubbard said McGee was in jail on two counts of a business burglary and an attempted business burglary when he escaped from jail around 3 p.m. Saturday.
“He managed to break the lock of his jail cell,” Hubbard said.
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