NATCHEZ, Miss. – The Adams County Board of Supervisors reelected Kevin Wilson as its president Monday after serving his first term the past year. The five supervisors normally rotate each year sitting at the center of the board table presiding over meetings, but they opted to retain Wilson for another year.
“Thank y’all – I think,” Wilson jokingly told his colleagues after they selected him with no one else in the running. He said he was planning to nominate fellow Supervisor Warren Gaines, but he was absent from Monday’s meeting.
Adams County supervisors have been taking turns annually serving as board president since 2015. Former supervisor Darryl Grennell was the last one to serve consecutive one-year terms as county president before he left the board and was elected in 2016 as Natchez mayor.
As the board starts the new year, supervisors on Monday reappointed Scott Slover as their attorney, a post he’s held since 2012. The board also reappointed Stephanie Washington as county administrator, a post she’s held since last January.
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Seventeen structures were damaged Dec. 28 by the storm that swept through Adams County, said Emergency Management Director Brad Bradford. He noted property owners will likely be eligible for government financial assistance to make repairs after the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency assesses the damage. Among the smashed houses was the home of TyKeria Rogers, the teenager killed by the tree that fell on her Westwood Road residence.
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Adams County’s ambulance service received more than 1,000 E911 calls in December, the highest monthly rate in six years, according to American Medical Response Natchez manager Tim Houghton. As AMR had a busy December, he noted, it now has more paramedics to reach the highest number it’s had in 10 years. AMR has been striving with various incentives to recruit more staffers as it struggled with a staff shortage. AMR is Natchez-Adams County’s officially designated ambulance service.
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