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A UPS delivery truck gets stuck in about 2 feet of water covering the entrance road to the Commonwealth Thursday. A tow truck had to be summoned to pull the stranded vehicle out. (By Tim Kalich)

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Greenwood and Leflore County declare flooding emergency following overnight deluge
By TIM KALICH - Editor
Thu,06/10/21-10:40AM , 6156 Reads
Greenwood and Leflore County have both declared a state of emergency following a deluge of rain overnight that has caused widespread flash flooding.
“This is major,” Greenwood Mayor Carolyn McAdams said about the high water, “because we have not had a long enough lull to catch up in the rain.”
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Greenwood Mayor Carolyn McAdams, center, studies the updated vote totals Wednesday that show her with a 92-vote edge over main challenger Kenderick Cox. With her are Webb Franklin, left, an attorney and former Republican congressman, and Lisa Cookston, the Ward 2 representative on the City Council. (By Tim Kalich)

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McAdams declares victory in Greenwood mayor's race; Cox doesn't say whether he's conceding
By TIM KALICH - Editor
Wed,06/09/21-2:39PM , 4694 Reads
Greenwood Mayor Carolyn McAdams is declaring victory after updated numbers show her with a 92-vote margin over her main challenger, Kenderick Cox, in Tuesday’s general election.
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Getting ready to cut the ribbon Tuesday to celebrate the commissioning of a pilot groundwater project in the Leflore County community of Shellmound are, from left, Pat Hemphill of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Hunter Dunaway of T.L. Wallace Construction, the contractor on the project; Leflore County farmer Stephen Pillow; Archie Tucker, Southeast Area director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service; Maj. Gen. Diana Holland, commanding general of the Corps’ Mississippi Valley Division; Dr. Martin Locke with the Agricultural Research Service; and Chris Wells, executive director of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality. (By Tim Kalich)

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Ribbon cut on Shellmound aquifer project
By TIM KALICH - Editor
Wed,06/09/21-2:00AM , 1179 Reads
On a day of heavy downpours and widespread flash flood warnings, it might have seemed incongruous to be talking about a future water shortage.
Nevertheless, the threat is real for the water below ground, says Maj. Gen. Diana Holland, a commanding general with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

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Greenwood Mayor Carolyn McAdams, center, is surrounded Tuesday at an election night watch party at The Vine restaurant by three of the City Council members who will be returning to office: from left, Ward 1’s Johnny Jennings, Ward 4’s Charles McCoy and Ward 2’s Lisa Cookston. McAdams led in her reelection contest by 142 votes, with an estimated 187 still to be counted Wednesday. (By Andy Lo)

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McAdams poised to win fourth term; Jennings, Stevenson reelected easily
By TIM KALICH - Editor
Tue,06/08/21-11:48PM , 2637 Reads
Greenwood Mayor Carolyn McAdams looks poised to win a fourth term.
The independent was leading her main challenger, Democrat Kenderick Cox, by 142 votes in Tuesday’s general election from the machine and absentee totals.
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