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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By VERNON SIKES
Herald Correspondent

Last October's audit of the Yazoo City Municipal School painted a dismal picture of the conditions of some of the schools in which Yazoo City's students spend most of their waking hours. Only one school, McCoy Elementary School, which is the district's newest school, earned words of praise.
“McCoy Elementary is a relatively new school and has been well taken care of,” wrote Ennis Proctor, the Mississippi State Department of Education official who evaluated all the district's physical plants. “There were very few areas that needed attention.
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