After a brief return to the 90s, daytime temperatures in Vicksburg and Warren County cooled into the low to upper 80s with nighttime lows running from the upper 50s to the upper 60s and no rain.
The Mississippi River was at 18.78 feet. Flood stage is 43 feet.

Parents of children in the Vicksburg Warren School District questioned the methods used by representatives of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights who talked to school district students about opportunities to enroll in the school district’s gifted and talented programs. The federal officials questioned students after data suggested minorities were lagging behind in admission to the programs. Parents said the students were questioned without their permission and were divided into segregated groups for questioning.

The trial of Dr. Lawrence Francis Chenier III was moved to Oct. 13 in Warren County Circuit Court. Chenier, 61, who lives in Vicksburg and practices in Tallulah, is accused of writing prescriptions to aid his live-in girlfriend’s drug habit. The girlfriend, Pattie Carr, 43, pleaded guilty in June to five counts of prescription forgery. She has not been sentenced.

City and county residents attending the last public hearing held by the City of Vicksburg’s ad hoc recreation committee repeated their call for the city and Warren County to join forces to develop a multipurpose recreation complex.
In a related story, the Warren County Board of Supervisors declined to nominate someone to serve on the recreation committee two weeks after Mayor George Flaggs Jr. sent a letter offering to accept county nominees for the 11-member board. The supervisors said Monday they will wait and see what the committee recommends before deciding whether to participate in a recreation complex.

A plea hearing in the criminal case against former Warren County circuit clerk Shelly Ashley-Palmertree has been set for Monday in Warren County Circuit Clerk. Palmertree is accused of inappropriately transferring money from her office’s civil and criminal accounts to her personal account twice in 2012. The Board of Supervisors removed her from office after evidence surfaced that she had declared residence in Madison County in 2013.

A Warren County man was convicted Tuesday in Warren County Circuit Court for sexually assaulting a third-grader in 2011. Circuit Judge M. James Chaney set sentencing for Oct. 9 Kenny Cordell Stewart, 30, who could face life in prison on the charge.

Tim Reeves, editor of the Selma, Ala., Times-Journal, was named publisher of The Vicksburg Post and president of Vicksburg Newsmedia LLC by Boone Newspapers Inc., The Post’s parent company. He starts his position Monday.

Cedric Magee, principal of Warren Central Junior High School, was named administrator of the year by the Vicksburg Warren School District. He was selected by a vote of the school principals in the district.

Local deaths included Donald L. “Mac” Comans, Charles Wade Schaffer Jr., Robert Lee Smith Sr., George Wilson Stevens, Bryan Douglas Campbell, Ida “Retta” Bass, Terrance D. Williams, Edna “Heavy” Lane.