Polls open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at usual locations
Polls open for the 2019 General Election at 7 a.m. Tuesday, Nov., and local voters will cast a ballot for statewide, regional and local offices.
They may be the best voices in the State of Mississippi and it will certainly be the best music in Clarksdale Sunday afternoon.
Coahoma Community College’s Lyceum Committee will host the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Choral Music Festival starting at 5 p.m. at The Pinnacle on the campus of Coahoma Community College.
Transportation Commissioner candidate visits Clarksdale
John Caldwell feels the way the state approaches building highways starts at the wrong place.
Clarksdale will wait two more weeks to determine if the city will step in to establish a policy and procedure to monitor murals that go up around town.
The Clarksdale Board of Mayor and Commissioners wrestled with three options before tabling a vote until their Monday, Nov. 11 meeting at 4 p.m. at City Hall.
Supervisors told community must step up to reform local schools.
Coahoma County Supervisors were told this week Clarksdale and Coahoma County must improve their schools or see them face takeover by the state.
The Bahama Islands were recently hit by Hurricane Dorian and are still experiencing the effects of that storm, and Clarksdale’s mayor and a local business have put out the call to help those who are hurting.
Clarksdale has $5 million following the approval of a bond issue by voters and they are trying to leverage that to pay for projects that could total over $25 million.
A portion of the Sportsplex land in south Clarksdale has been rezoned to residential as the city takes the first step toward filling up the property.
Departments hit with 3.4-percent cut.
Supervisors have prepared their 2019-20 budget with departments seeing a reduction in funding and taxpayers seeing a tax increase.
Supervisors will present their budget Thursday and adopt it later this month. The proposed budget has a four mill tax increase.
The City of Clarksdale has proposed an $11,195,627 budget for the 2019-20 fiscal year and that is down $180,547 from last year’s budget.
