SOCIETY NEWS GLADDEN PLACES RIDGELAND DRAWS IN MRS. AMERICA NEW BOUNDARY Mrs. America — See page A9 Result of annexation — See page A2 Madison County’s Serving Madison, Ridgeland, leading newspaper. Canton, Flora, Northeast VOLUME 40 NUMBER 15 Copyright © 2021 Madison County Journal MADISON COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI www.madisoncountyjournal.com APRIL 15, 2021 ** $1.00 AMERICAN RESCUE ACT $32M in stimulus flowing to county By SCOTT HAWKINS follows: guidelines for acceptable have them considering expand- make it go.” District 5 Supervisor Paul Grif-
[email protected] • $5.7 million, city of Madi- expenditures, including infra- ing broadband internet access County spokesman Heath fin has been noting broadband son. structure and broadband inter- in the northern part of the coun- Hall said Vance is still awaiting dead spots in the northern part Madison County is slated to • $5.4 million, city of Ridge- net for rural areas. ty. details on what the money can of the county for about a year. receive $20 million in federal land. Below is what some elected “That is one area we are be spent on but said the county During the Madison County COVID-19 stimulus monies of • $2.7 million, city of Can- officials throughout Madison considering using the funds,” is ready to receive the funds. Board of Supervisors April 5 the state’s $6 billion with sepa- ton County said about their govern- Banks said, adding the Rescue “Shelton and his team are meeting, three students from rate allocations for municipali- • $420,000, city of Flora. ment’s plans at this point for the Funds process is “complicat- still working through all the rural northern Madison County ties.