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/ ListenUpYall.com May 3, 2021 6:52 PM NATCHEZ, Miss. Adams County supervisors today voted down a proposal to reinstate the mask mandate that expired Saturday as COVID surged this past week. About 100 more people in Adams County have been confirmed to be infected by the virus since April 24. The weekly spike is the worst the county has experienced since January to make Adams County’s seven-day incidence rate the highest of Mississippi’s 82 counties, according to data compiled by the state Department of Health. The new spike has reportedly been attributed to an outbreak of COVID at the Adams County Correctional Center, the private prison outside Natchez that holds detainees for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. ....
/ ListenUpYall.com Mar 1, 2021 11:35 PM NATCHEZ, Miss. – Adams County supervisors and their chief administrator said they can’t afford to give pay raises to county employees after a financial review shows various expenditures are quickly eating up incoming revenues.
“We don’t have anything to work with,” said county Administrator Angie King, who noted county departments have been spending too much money not knowing whether it’s in the budget. “They ate it up.”
“There are a lot of negative numbers in our budget. We should never have that,” King told the county board Monday.
She also noted costly spikes in county-provided health insurance for employees are taking large chunks of the budget. ....
/ ListenUpYall.com Mar 1, 2021 11:36 PM NATCHEZ, Miss. – County supervisors have agreed to pay public defense attorneys for their recent work amid a squabble between Adams County’s two circuit judges about who they should appoint to represent indigent clients.
At Monday’s meeting of the county board, Judges Lillie Blackmon Sanders and Debra Blackwell displayed their disagreements in full view of the supervisors.
“It’s my courtroom, and I’m not going to let Judge Sanders or anyone else force me to appoint someone I don’t want to appoint,” Blackwell told the supervisors.
Sanders – as Adams County’s longest-serving Circuit Court judge holds seniority status, but the anti-nepotism law doesn’t allow her to appoint daughter Aisha Sanders and sister Lydia Blackmon as county public defense lawyers. ....
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