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By JASON PATTERSON
Editor & Publisher

City workers are going to have to clean up a crumbling historic building on Main Street before it starts causing problems for other buildings.
The front of the building at 401 South Main Street is about all that remains intact of the structure. The roof has caved in, and Building Inspector Russ Carter said it is blocking the water that flows behind the buildings.
“It has created a dam and is blocking the water,” Carter told the Mayor and Board of Aldermen Monday. “The last time I looked, it was about eight feet high.”
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By JASON PATTERSON
Editor & Publisher

Yazoo County has awarded contracts to clean up the properties of the Southern Bag and Talport buildings in an effort to make them more attractive to potential developers.
Tim Mood, interim director of the Yazoo Economic Development District, told Yazoo County Board of Supervisors this week that the properties will be cleaned and regularly maintained from now on.
Both sites are locations formerly occupied by industries but now are vacant and owned by the county.
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Anna Kiley Leal gets a hit in the girls softball season opener with her teammates in the background waiting their turn to step up to the plate. More photos appear on page 14.

By VERNON SIKES
Herald Correspondent

In this week's school board meeting, Yazoo County School District Superintendent Becky Fisher expressed frustration with the construction of the district's new administration building and the four sixth grade classrooms.
“The dates to move into the central office and the sixth grade have been changed three times,” Fisher said. “That is not OK.”
Asked why the completion dates were changed, she said, “because of weather, because of various reasons.”
Original completion dates were February for the administrative offices and last December for the sixth grade class classrooms.
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