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BUSINESS 3 OPINION 4 PUZZLES/OBITUARIES 5 SPORTS 6 CLASSIFIEDS 12 AREA DEATHS | PAGE 5 Evelyn Broscue, 82 Willard Troy Landis, 77 desototimestribune.com 662-429-6397 2342 Hwy, 51 North NESBIT, MS 38651 FAMILY AFFAIR! Mealers’ summer vacation spent with basketball. P6 Say cheese! Wednesday morning for DeSoto County Schools Supt. Cory Uselton started early, busy and remained that way. As parents and students were getting ready for the first day of school, Uselton was spending his morning before the crack of dawn visiting a number of the school campuses, doing first day of school interviews for local media and eventually finding his way to his Central Services office where he sat down, took a moment… and watched video on his computer screen. It was all done for a stated purpose how- ever. You see, Uselton has access to cam- eras placed at strategic locations on every DeSoto County Schools campus, primary school to high school. He can monitor the progress, the move- ment of buses, students, parents and staff, and with a radio can direct staff to areas that need help, including district staff. “We have four Central Services employ- ees that go out in the morning and in the afternoon,” Uselton said. “Each of them are assigned an early school zone and a late school zone. As soon as the traffic clears out in the early zone they head to their next area. That way we’ve got a district-lev- el person at each of the zones in case there are issues that arise where I need to send somebody to a specific spot.” The first day of school in Mississippi’s largest public school district Wednesday provided special challenges with a high- er-than-normal influx of parents, children and vehicles crowding the school lots and Runofs set after primary vote The first round of voting for the next county and state level political offices has been com- pleted and Tuesday’s primary election results ended with a few runoff votes still ahead. Those races will be deter- mined on Aug. 27. Polls that day will be open again from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. There was a strong voter turnout for Tuesday’s primary vote at 24.44 percent, according to information from Circuit Clerk Dale Kelly Thompson’s office in the county court- house. The total number of ballots cast was 26,416 with the vast majority (22,005) being on the Republican side. There were 4,411 Democratic ballots cast Tuesday. Among the contested state legislative races in DeSoto County Tuesday, Theresa Gillespie Isom won the Dem- ocratic nomination in House District 7 with a 68 percent and will face incumbent state Rep. Steve Hopkins, who held off Kimberly Remak by a 56.1-40.7 percent result. The Republican nomination for state Senate District 1 will be against incumbent Chris Massey and Michael McLen- don, a Hernando alderman. Massey attracted 42.55 percent of the vote to McLendon’s 28.66 percent. Murry Haslip was third at 23.64 percent. Cameras help ease transition back to class Bob Bakken|DTT Ofcials celebrate the start of the McIngvale Road realignment project that will be done concurrently with the new McIngvale Road interchange to I-269 Friday morn- ing. The realignment project was needed for the interchange to be constructed. Ofcials celebrate McIngvale Road improvement SEE SAY CHEESE, P5 SEE RUNOFFS SET, P7 ‘The challenge of the frst day is that nobody’s in a routine. Ev- eryone’s got to get into a routine with parents and children that are going to a new school from where they were last year.’ DCS Supt. Cory Uselton DeSoto Tımes - Trıbune DeSoto Tımes - Trıbune THURSDAY AUGUST 8, 2019 VOL 123 ISSUE 60 50 Cents Bob Bakken|DTT DeSoto County Schools Supt. Cory Uselton checks some of the cameras that monitor the district campuses as the frst day of the new school year began Wednesday, Aug. 7. SIMPLY MAKING LIFE BETTER SINCE 1839 So how’s business? If you’re a business owner, we know you probably hear this phrase often. But at Guaranty Bank, we truly want to know the answer. Because at the end of the day, good business moves people. Stop by a Guaranty Branch today or visit gbtonline.com The connection of the nation’s newest superhighway to Hernando has taken a giant step forward with last week’s groundbreaking for the I-269/McIn- gvale Road interchange and the cor- responding realignment of McIngvale Road planned to that interchange. State highway and local leaders con- verged at the intersection of McIngvale and Green T roads for the ceremony held last Friday morning, an event sig- nalling the start of construction. About $8.7 million in funding for the realign- ment is joined by about $10 million in the interchange to mean a future for Hernando that will be much different than today. “It’s going to mean a lot of growth,” said Hernando Mayor Tom Ferguson. “It is going to be commerce and all of that. We’re going to see an exit coming off of the realignment which triggers SEE MCINGVALE ROAD IMPROVEMENT, P12 BY BOB BAKKEN STAFF WRITER BY BOB BAKKEN MANAGING EDITOR BY BOB BAKKEN MANAGING EDITOR

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Page 1: FAMILY AFFAIR! Say cheese! · Say cheese! Wednesday morning for DeSoto County Schools Supt. Cory Uselton started early, busy and remained that way. As parents and students were getting

BUSINESS 3

OPINION 4

PUZZLES/OBITUARIES 5

SPORTS 6

CLASSIFIEDS 12

A R E A D E AT H S | PAGE 5Evelyn Broscue, 82Willard Troy Landis, 77

desototimestribune.com662-429-63972342 Hwy, 51 NorthNESBIT, MS 38651

FAMILY AFFAIR! Mealers’ summer vacation spent with basketball. P6

Say cheese!

Wednesday morning for DeSoto County

Schools Supt. Cory Uselton started early,

busy and remained that way.

As parents and students were getting

ready for the first day of school, Uselton

was spending his morning before the

crack of dawn visiting a number of the

school campuses, doing first day of school

interviews for local media and eventually

finding his way to his Central Services

office where he sat down, took a moment…

and watched video on his computer screen.

It was all done for a stated purpose how-

ever. You see, Uselton has access to cam-

eras placed at strategic locations on every

DeSoto County Schools campus, primary

school to high school.

He can monitor the progress, the move-

ment of buses, students, parents and staff,

and with a radio can direct staff to areas

that need help, including district staff.

“We have four Central Services employ-

ees that go out in the morning and in the

afternoon,” Uselton said. “Each of them

are assigned an early school zone and a late

school zone. As soon as the traffic clears

out in the early zone they head to their

next area. That way we’ve got a district-lev-

el person at each of the zones in case there

are issues that arise where I need to send

somebody to a specific spot.”

The first day of school in Mississippi’s

largest public school district Wednesday

provided special challenges with a high-

er-than-normal influx of parents, children

and vehicles crowding the school lots and

Runoffs set after primary

voteThe first round of voting for

the next county and state level

political offices has been com-

pleted and Tuesday’s primary

election results ended with a

few runoff votes still ahead.

Those races will be deter-

mined on Aug. 27. Polls that

day will be open again from 7

a.m.-7 p.m.

There was a strong voter

turnout for Tuesday’s primary

vote at 24.44 percent, according

to information from Circuit

Clerk Dale Kelly Thompson’s

office in the county court-

house. The total number of

ballots cast was 26,416 with the

vast majority (22,005) being

on the Republican side. There

were 4,411 Democratic ballots

cast Tuesday.

Among the contested state

legislative races in DeSoto

County Tuesday, Theresa

Gillespie Isom won the Dem-

ocratic nomination in House

District 7 with a 68 percent and

will face incumbent state Rep.

Steve Hopkins, who held off

Kimberly Remak by a 56.1-40.7

percent result.

The Republican nomination

for state Senate District 1 will

be against incumbent Chris

Massey and Michael McLen-

don, a Hernando alderman.

Massey attracted 42.55 percent

of the vote to McLendon’s 28.66

percent. Murry Haslip was

third at 23.64 percent.

Cameras help ease transition back to class

Bob Bakken|DTT

Officials celebrate the

start of the McIngvale

Road realignment

project that will be

done concurrently with

the new McIngvale

Road interchange to

I-269 Friday morn-

ing. The realignment

project was needed for

the interchange to be

constructed.

Officials celebrate McIngvale Road improvement

SEE SAY CHEESE, P5

SEE RUNOFFS SET, P7

‘The challenge of the first day is that nobody’s in a routine. Ev-

eryone’s got to get into a routine with parents and children that are going to a new school from

where they were last year.’

DCS Supt. Cory Uselton

DeSoto Tımes-TrıbuneDeSoto Tımes-TrıbuneTHURSDAY AUGUST 8, 2019 VOL 123 ISSUE 60 50 Cents

Bob Bakken|DTT

DeSoto County Schools Supt. Cory Uselton checks some of the cameras that monitor the district campuses as the first day of the new

school year began Wednesday, Aug. 7.

SIMPLY MAKING LIFE BETTER SINCE 1839

So how’s business?If you’re a business owner, we know you probably hear this phrase often. But at Guaranty Bank, we truly want to know the answer.

Because at the end of the day, good business moves people. Stop by a Guaranty Branch today or visit gbtonline.com

The connection of the nation’s newest superhighway to Hernando has taken a giant step forward with last week’s groundbreaking for the I-269/McIn-gvale Road interchange and the cor-responding realignment of McIngvale Road planned to that interchange.

State highway and local leaders con-verged at the intersection of McIngvale and Green T roads for the ceremony held last Friday morning, an event sig-

nalling the start of construction. About $8.7 million in funding for the realign-ment is joined by about $10 million in the interchange to mean a future for Hernando that will be much different than today.

“It’s going to mean a lot of growth,” said Hernando Mayor Tom Ferguson. “It is going to be commerce and all of that. We’re going to see an exit coming off of the realignment which triggers

SEE MCINGVALE ROAD IMPROVEMENT, P12

BY BOB BAKKENSTAFF WRITER

BY BOB BAKKENMANAGING EDITOR

BY BOB BAKKENMANAGING EDITOR