TYLERTOWN — Residents of St. Paul Road asked Walthall County supervisors for help in calming their neighborhood.
Myra Barton and Willena Berry complained at an April 17 board meeting that people race and ride all-terrain vehicles and shoot firearms all hours of the day and night in the area known as Village End.
“I have bullet holes in my house,” Barton told supervisors. “Somebody could shoot a child or my mother.”
Barton said neither she nor her mother could get a good night’s sleep due to the noise, and she and Berry asked their supervisor, Clennel Brown, to put up signs in the area saying “No Shooting” and “No Loud Music.”
Supervisors noted that the county does not have an ordinance governing noise volume, and expressed doubts that signs would make a difference.
“It still might serve as a deterrent,” Berry said.
The women said they had gone to the gathering places of some of those they had seen riding the roads and asked for less noise and an end to gunfire — which was promised but not delivered.
Some of the supervisors said they, too, had made such requests before, and received promises to lessen or quit activities that were then ignored.
Sheriff Kyle Breland said he could not just station an officer in the vicinity, but he would try to have patrols pass through the area more frequently.
In other business, the board:
• Accepted a $1,044 quote for a metal door with wood frame for the former National Guard armory.
• Directed a man seeking payment for damages to his car due to a pothole to file a claim with the county’s liability insurance carrier.
• Authorized the purchase of a computer for the appraisal department for $1,069 and 20 rolls of stamps for car tags for $1,100.
• Was invited to an open house at the Tylertown Library.
• Approved travel for Breland to the sheriff’s convention on teh Coast.
• Learned Dustin McKenzie and Jimmy Jones resigned their positions as jailers; Jamarcus Spears and Nicky Willoughby were hired; and Caleb Smith was terminated.
• Learned of a request from Pike County supervisors for other member counties in the Southwest Mental Health district to increase their allocations.
• Paid Craft-Ginn Funeral Chapel $250 for a pauper’s burial.
• Paid guardian ad litem fees under a court order.
• Approved Deputy Chancery Clerk Cindy Ginn to attend Public Employees Retirement System training in McComb.
• Spread Constable Raymond Gutter’s annual report on the minutes.
