A cool front broke the grip of 90-degree temperatures on the area early in the week, with highs in the 80s and nighttime lows in the 60s. A slow rise back to the 90s was predicted to begin by the end of the week.
The Mississippi River was at 18.15 feet on Sept. 19. Flood stage is 43 feet.

Former circuit clerk Shelly Ashley-Palmertree is expected to plead guilty to charges she improperly transferred money from her office’s civil and criminal accounts to her personal account on two occasions in 2012, the Warren County Board of Supervisors learned. No date has been set for the plea, pending negotiations between attorneys for both parties.
The supervisors removed Palmertree from office in May after evidence surfaced that she had declared her residence in Madison County in 2013. A special election will be held Nov. 4 to fill her unexpired term.
A civil suit involving more than $1 million in improper salaries and contractor fees paid to Palmertree’s father, Larry Ashley, over five years, is ongoing in Hinds County Chancery Court.

The Board of Mayor and Aldermen approved a $32.44 million budget that included $3.2 million in one-time outside revenue for capital projects, leaving the city with a $29.15 million operating budget for fiscal 2015.
In a related matter, Mayor George Flaggs Jr. named a six-member budget oversight committee to monitor the city’s spending, cash balance and long-term debt. The committee will meet monthly with the board and discuss the city’s financial situation.

The trial of Dr. Lawrence Francis Chenier III, 61, a Tallulah physician accused of writing prescriptions to support his live-in girlfriend’s drug habit was delayed after he checked himself into Central Mississippi Medical Center. Chernier is accused of 74 counts of prescription forgery and a single count of conspiracy. His girlfriend, Pattie Carr, 43, pleaded guilty in June to five counts of prescription forgery.

The owners of a 10-acre site off Jeff Davis Road that was involved in a plan in the 1990s to turn the site into a landfill have reapplied to the State of Mississippi for a landfill permit for the site. A 7 p.m. public hearing is set for Oct. 9 at Warren Central High School.
The Board of Supervisors Tuesday announced its intention to oppose the landfill and voted 4-1 to send a letter to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality seeking to kill the application by Warren County Waste Disposal Inc.

The Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library remained closed during the week while workers finished renovations that include new flooring and furniture and the relocation of some sections.

The diaries of an Iowa soldier who fought at the Siege of Vicksburg were donated to the Vicksburg National Military Park by his great-grandson. The diaries chronicled the experiences of Fifth Sgt. John Hughes Jr. of the 28th Iowa Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War.

Mayor George Flaggs Jr. married Valencia Renee Jones in a noon ceremony Monday at Triumph Church. Later in the week, the mayor attended the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative conference in New Orleans.

Members of the Mayor’s Health Council announced they want a plan that will allow farmer’s to accept EBT transactions at the Vicksburg Farmers’ Market.

Vicksburg Housing Authority director Ben Washington said VHA properties would undergo an energy audit in an effort to save $800,000 a year in energy cause. The audit will cost about $30,000, he said.

More than 100 people gathered at the Old Court House Museum on Wednesday to celebrate the 227th anniversary of the drafting of the U.S. Constitution.

Local deaths included Jessie Lee Terrell, Gary B. Trimble, Elizabeth Alderman Warnock, Charles “Junie Man” Williams Jr., L.T. Tucker, Fannie Lou Adcock Vowell, the Rev. Clifton J. McInnis Jr., Willie Jane Williams, Lois Jane Ahlrich, Marjorie Guiney, Sharon Ann Reedy, Jessie Lee Terrell and Willie Jane Williams.