From staff reports

Vicksburg Tallulah Regional Airport will be available for aircraft just three days a week, beginning Friday.

VTR general manager Randy Woods confirmed the decision Friday following brief talks with two board members. A quorum couldn’t be reached for full discussion at the Mound facility.

Normally open to mostly private pilots seven days a week, the runway will be open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays for the foreseeable future.

Runway lights burned out about three months ago, complicating federally-funded work to upgrade the airport. Its contractor has cited federal guidelines stipulating a 10-foot work space between it and any other work. If the firm takes its full allotment of time under its contract, the three-day schedule could remain in effect through October.

The renovation is financed by just more than $4 million in grants from the Federal Aviation Administration. When complete, a parallel taxiway will supplement a 100-foot runway.

Opened in 1993, the airport is owned by Vicksburg, Warren County, Tallulah and Madison Parish.