![]() However, be- cause of heavy rains and flooding in February and March, the Prai- rie School Road is not a priority for Calvert and Road Manager Ronnie Burns told supervisors the county could get the bridge repaired for free through the Tom- bigbee River Valley Water Man- agement District, of which the county is a member. I can’t do that without the brid ge.” Supervisors voted to close the bridge March 4 after County En- gineer Robert Calvert told them it was unsafe due t o bolts that were not properly installed when the bridge was built more than 50 years ago. I could lose a lot of my fish this season if I can’t get back and forth. “With that bridge blocked off right now, my tractors can’t get across (Prairie School Road) and it’s taking us 45 minutes to get places it used to take us just min- utes,” he said. ![]() During Monday’s regular Board of Supervisors meeting, Corey Hall, who operates an over 300-acre catfish farm owned by Harvest Select, an Alabama-based catfish sourcing and distribution company, asked supervisors to consider repairing and reopening the bridge that was closed in early March. Lowndes County officials are looking at options for quickly fix- ing a bridge over Gilmer Creek af- ter hearing its closure is af fecting a local busines s. “It’s the first time they’ve ever gotten anything.” “It was nice to see Crawford get something,” Smith said. Crawford will get $75,000, for repairs at the old Motley High School gym, which will serve as a commu- nity center, and Caledonia will get $50,000 for improvements at Ola J. West Point will receive $500,000 for repairs to Chur- chill Road. The city of Co - lumbus, which reportedly fac- es a $338,000 debt by the end of the fiscal year, will receive $450,000 as a reimbursement for its City Hall renovation as well as $500,0 00 for Phase 2 con- struction on the Sen. ![]() Through a combination of bond package funding and ap - propriations from the Depart- ment of Finance and Adminis- tration and Education, seven projects received funding in Lown- des, Oktibbeha and Clay coun- ties. Jeff Smith (R-Columbus), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. “We didn’t get everything we wanted, but we got a lot,” said Rep. Repeated calls have apparently fixed that, but not the app access! A terrible waste of our time.The Golden Triangle will have an additional $13.1 million to spend on a variety of projects, including more than $6 million for construction and Mississip- pi University for Women and $5 million for the Partnership School in Starkville. Oh, and we also get a message every couple weeks that has our correct home address in Columbus except that it has our country as Mexico, where we have never been. We simply get a message that says to call them about our account, which we have done. Our account is filled with funds, we are getting the print edition, and we can login through a browser and get a poor version of the paper with no ability to email articles or print articles (or crosswords!) It just doesn’t work, and no one at the Dispatch or service company has any ability to answer or fix it. We have had occasional difficulties with the e-edition app, but nothing like for the past month, when nothing works. We have subscribed to the Dispatch since moving to Columbus in 1983, both print, and when it became available, online. There is still the occasional problem need re-authentication, but they are now rare. The new updates have left the app is good condition, stable, and working well. My previous review, below, needs to be updated. The newest updates have really improved stability.
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