Vicksburg saw high temperatures in the low 90s throughout the week, while overnight lows ranged in the 70s. Though no rainfall was officially recorded, areas of town saw brief downpours toward week’s end.

The Mississippi River fell to 1.7 feet locally before ending the week at 1.8. A reading of 1.7 feet was forecast for today.

Mississippi Ethics Commission director said Vicksburg Warren School District trustees and the superintendent violated the state’s Open Meetings Act when they engaged in telephone polling to make board decisions and later ratified those votes. The votes have included personnel moves, school bus use the construction of the Vicksburg High School field house.

Back-to-back power outages left nearly 2,000 Entergy customers in the dark for several hours Saturday. A faulty breaker at a Mulberry Street substation was blamed for the first outage, while the second was caused when a transmission power line on Cherry Street burned.

Construction at Cedar Hill Cemetery is continuing as time, weather and manpower allow, to complete 29 acres on the westernmost portion of the burial area. Eleven acres are nearly finished, and an adjoining area should be available in December, the cemetery sexton said.

Clarence Jones, 23, was arrested and held without bail after being accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend inside Ameristar Casino, where she was working as a waitress. Vicksburg police said Jones stabbed Jordan Melton, 23, multiple times before casino security and patrons restrained him.

Elizabeth Smith of Jackson died from injuries she received after her SUV veered off Interstate 20 near Bovina and landed on its side in a ravine. It was the fifth wreck in Warren County this year.

The Vicksburg-Warren Humane Society is out of room and diverting animals to the Mississippi Animal Rescue League in Jackson. Society president Georgia Lynn blamed the influx on the unseasonably warm winter, which caused an elongated breeding season as well as an increase in parasites.

Culkin Volunteer Fire Department Chief Jerry Briggs, 35, was appointed Warren County fire coordinator after the post had been vacant for nearly two months. Briggs was the choice of three Warren County supervisors.

NRoute officials asked the county for $25,000 in the transportation system’s latest round of budget woes.

Vicksburg police officer Anthony Stevens was suspended without pay after a resident filed a complaint against him. Neither city nor police officials would comment on the suspension.

Warren was one of two counties found in the state to have been invaded by a kudzu bug that could pose a problem for soybean farmers. The small, brown insects, which migrate over land mainly on vehicles, are closely related to the traditional stink bug and feed on main stems of legumes.

Property taxes are expected to climb and county employees are not expected to get pay raises, according to the first draft of a budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. Additionally, unemployment in Warren County rose in June, as the jobless rate was up from 10.1 percent in May to 10.9 percent.

Linda and James Fondren, who purchased the Monte Carlo building at 913 Washington St. in December, are hoping to have at least part of the building open for business by May. Their plans include a restaurant on the building’s ground floor, a cultural museum, an interpretive center and condominiums.

Rep. George Flaggs told Vicksburg Rotary members that opponents of the Affordable Care Act should reconsider their position. Flaggs said the argument over health care had become too political that people were not stepping back, cooling off and logically examining ways to extend care, particularly Medicaid.

Local deaths during the week were Samuel L. Moore, Nancy Marr, Curtiss James Turner, J. Larry Grant and Alvin Parker.