Fall weather finally made its appearance when a mid-week cold front dropped daytimes temperatures into the upper 50s and lower 60s with nighttime lows in the 30s and 40s with weekend temperatures in the upper and mid-60s.
The Mississippi River was at 20.51 feet Nov. 1.  It was at 14.97 feet Friday. Flood stage is 43 feet.

Former Vicksburg Warren School District Trustee Jan Hyland Daigre and Warren County Circuit Clerk Greg Peltz are in a runoff to fill the unexpired term of former Circuit Clerk Shelley Ashley-Palmertree after votes were cast in Tuesday’s elections. Daigre received 39 percent of the vote to 24 percent for Peltz in the five-candidate race. The runoff election is Nov. 25. In other local races, School Trustees Joe Loviza and Jim Stirgus Jr. were re-elected to their seats on the school board, and Troy Kimble defeated Mario Grady to win a special constable’s election to complete the unexpired term of Randy Naylor, who died earlier this year, and Circuit Judge M. James “Jim” Chaney was re-elected. Circuit Judge Isidore W. Patrick Jr. was unopposed.

The Warren County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 against instituting the new statewide building code. The board, however, allowed a building inspection crew from the City of Vicksburg to inspect the new annex building under construction at River Region Medical Center.
In other county news, county board attorney Marcie Southerland announced she was stepping down as board attorney to take a job with the District Attorney’s office. She was named the board’s attorney in January 2012.

Vicksburg Mayor George Flaggs Jr. said he wanted the city and the county to reach a compromise on the fate of two county-owned buildings at 1015 Adams St. and 1019 Adams. The Board of Supervisors wants to tear the buildings down, but has twice been denied by the city’s Board of Architectural Review because the buildings are in the city’s Grove Street-Jackson Street National Register Historic District. Known as “the old Verhine building,” the house at 1015 Adams St. was built in 1890 and is a contributing resource to the historic district, according to a letter from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
In other city news, South Ward Alderman Willis Thompson told members of the Vicksburg Optimist Club he believes a recreation complex for Vicksburg “will happen.” He said the Board of Mayor and Aldermen were considering options as it waits for the city’s ad hoc recreation committee to present its report to the board on the city’s recreation facilities, adding the city’s Fisher Ferry property bought in 2003 for a sports complex would be considered as a possible site for a complex.

The Storehouse Community Food Pantry announced it has given food to 4,342 people through Sept. 30, a 16 percent increase over 2013 and up from about the 3,500 people who received food five years ago, Charles Calhoun, the organization’s president told members of the Vicksburg Lions Club. He added food pantry pays an average of $3,000 a month for food.

The parents, grandparents and guardians of nearly 400 children have signed them up for Christmas assistance through the Good Shepherd Community Center. The presents will be distributed Dec. 18.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began its seasonal dredging of the Vicksburg Harbor as part of a program that will include ports Lake Providence, La., Madison Parish, La., Claiborne County and Rosedale.

Local deaths included William S. “Bill” Hynum, Harry B. Shepherd, Elijah Brumfield and Luther Warnock Jr.