From staff reports

Stop signs at Realty and Short Cherry streets have been doubled to make the intersection a four-way stop.

After evaluations, the Vicksburg Street Department decided last week that the conversion would make the intersection safer. Signs were installed Wednesday.

“There was too much traffic that was traveling that direction and they wanted to slow it down in that area,” said Barry Graham, the city’s  communications manager.

The signs are meant to slow traffic, but Graham doesn’t anticipate the new stops will cause much backup because it isn’t a high-traffic area.

The section of Short Cherry Street from Mulvihill to Realty streets will also change to a northbound one-way street, said traffic department supervisor Robert McAdam.

Alcorn cutting staff at Lorman, Natchez

LORMAN — Alcorn State has eliminated 60 positions, but the cuts will not be felt in Vicksburg, university officials said Thursday.

Alcorn State spokesman Stephen McDaniel said faculty and staff were cut from the Lorman and Natchez campuses.

The Vicksburg campus courses are taught by faculty from Lorman, and the number of faculty members teaching at Vicksburg each semester depends on the number of courses available.

McDaniel said the cuts, which sprang from the university’s annual contract renewal process, primarily affect the Lorman campus. He said three positions were eliminated at the Natchez campus, and the remainder were at Lorman.

He also said financial cuts on the state level contributed to the school’s actions.