Rainy weather ushered in cooler temperatures during the week, putting highs in the mid 50s and nighttime lows in the 30s and 40s.
The Mississippi River was at 18.62 feet on Dec. 13. Flood stage is 43 feet.

Mayor George Flaggs Jr. set a series of work sessions to examine ways to fund a proposed capital improvements plan, utilities improvements and a possible sports complex totaling $61 million.
In other city news, South Ward Alderman Willis Thompson said he planned to meet with Entergy officials to discuss upgrading street lights and better response to complaints of lights going out of service.

The Warren County Board of Supervisors directed board attorney Blake Teller to move to put two county properties on the market for sale. The board’s action came a week after the Board of Mayor and Aldermen upheld a decision by the city’s Board of Architectural Review to deny the county a permit to demolish the buildings at 1015 and 1019 Adams St. because they are in the city’s historic district. County supervisors Thursday set a selling price for the buildings at $172,000.
Warren County will retain the same insurance agents to handle a plan OK’d last week to insure its public buildings and other risk-carrying infrastructure.

Vicksburg native Henry “Hank” McDevitt was named deputy commander of the Army Engineering Research and Development Center. McDevitt started at ERDC as a research structural engineer in 1983. In 2000, he was named branch chief of the impact and explosion effects branch of the GSL, and in 2012served a three-month assignment as acting director of the GSL.

Rondell Galvin, who was accused of murder in the 2011 shooting death of William Jones during an argument over a loud car stereo, was found not guilty after a three-day trial.

Vicksburg’s ad hoc recreation committee revealed the result of 6 months of work Tuesday night.
The eleven-member panel called for a multipurpose, recreation complex funded jointly by the city and Warren County and governed by a commission to oversee its operations and that of the city’s overall recreation facilities and programs.

Work on a wastewater treatment system for ISA TanTec’s proposed plant at Ceres industrial park is next up in the company’s push to open by Jan. 1, officials said.

Details were few but the tone amicable Wednesday during a meeting in Jackson between a few public officials from Vicksburg and Warren County and Kansas City Southern Railroad about the future of the U.S. 80 bridge, officials said.

A Vicksburg woman was killed and three men were injured in four crashes Thursday on Interstate 20.
Andrea Thomas, 42, of Vicksburg was killed when an eastbound 18-wheeler crossed the median of the interstate and crushed her car, dragging it into the ditch next to North Frontage Road near the former site of Captain Jack’s Bent and Dent Groceries.

Area deaths included Charles Edward “Tip” Barnes, Susie M. Harris-Myers, John Daniel Goodson, Wesley Walker, Tommy L. Williams Sr., Daniel C. Beard, Esther M. Chambers, Mary Holly Johnson, Betty Ann White, Charles Edward “Tip” Barnes, Esther M. Chambers, Darrell Houston Peyton, Mary Louise McMahon, Terry W. Slaughter, Ronnie Lee Terrell, Tommie L. Williams, Sr. and Andrea Thomas.