CMSD Plans to Reveal New Logo, Branding by Year's
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ESTABLISHED 1879 | COLUMBUS, MISSISSIPPI CDISPATCH.COM 75 ¢ NEWSSTAND | 40 ¢ HOME DELIVERY THURSDAY | SEPTEMBER 10, 2020 CMSD plans to reveal new logo, branding by year’s end see the designs (before Tues- Board members get ‘sneak peek’ this week at preliminary designs day),” CMSD Superintendent BY SLIM SMITH tion, the rebrand consists of graphic artist Jay Harper. Cherie Labat said. “But seeing [email protected] anniversary logos for Franklin The Dispatch’s request to them at the meeting made me Academy and Union Academy share those designs with read- very excited. I have to give a Last year, when Columbus (opened in 1865), as well as a ers was denied on the basis that lot of credit to the school board Municipal School District be- new district logo, logos for each the designs are preliminary association because they gave gan making plans for the 200th of the city’s schools and a new and have not been adopted by a detailed explanation of how anniversary of Franklin Acad- Falcon logo to replace the one the board, the designs have not branding and merchandising emy, the state’s first public adopted during Del Phillips’ been registered and showing Harper Labat can really set your district apart. school, $5,000 was set aside for tenure as superintendent. the designs would diminish the board reacted favorably to For us, as the oldest school dis- a rebrand of the district to coin- During Tuesday’s regular the district’s plans for a “reveal Harper’s designs while making trict in the state, we have a great cide with the anniversary. meeting, the board of trustees event” to be held later in the a few suggestions on some of story to tell, not only because Working with the Missis- got a sneak peak of the new year. the logos. of our history, but the changes sippi School Board Associa- preliminary designs by MSBA During Tuesday’s meeting “I had had an opportunity to See LOGO, 6A QUITTIN’ TIME MSU rents rooms at Columbus hotel as third quarantine site University reserves 40 rooms at Fairfield with option of securing 45 more BY TESS VRBIN [email protected] Mississippi State University students in quarantine due to COVID-19 are stay- ing in a third hotel, Fairfield Inn and Suites in Columbus, in addition to the Shaw two in Starkville that MSU rented for the entire semes- ter, according to a Tuesday email to faculty from Provost David Shaw. Yue Stella Yu/Dispatch Staff As of Wednesday, 80 students Jonas Coleman, a 13-year-old student at Armstrong Middle School, stands outside the Greensboro Center on Wednesday af- are staying in the three hotels, and ternoon, waiting for his mother to pick him up from school. A member of the band, he said he has played the tenor saxophone a total of 993 students are in quar- since he was in sixth grade. antine after either testing positive or coming in close contact with a COVID-positive person, according to data on the MSU website. In to- tal, 1,156 students have been test- ed for COVID-19 in the past two Citizen wants vicious dog ordinance strengthened See HOTEL, 6A after stray German Shepherd kills livestock Oktibbeha authorities did not have Two injured in East dog euthanized, don’t know where it is Columbus shooting BY TESS VRBIN Lamar Simmons, who Police searching for at [email protected] lives in a rural area be- tween Starkville and Ma- least one suspect An Oktibbeha County ben, told the board about farmer approached the a dog that he said killed DISPATCH STAFF REPORT board of supervisors Tues- 12 goats and a rabbit on day to take issue with the his farm over the course Two people were injured and Co- county’s ordinance and of several months. The lumbus police are searching for at procedure for dealing with goats were worth $100 to least one suspect after a shooting in vicious dogs, saying it does $150 each, and the dog East Columbus Tuesday night. not sufficiently protect live- also killed 13 rabbits and The shooting occurred on Gay- stock, after he lost several four dogs on other nearby Tess Vrbin/Dispatch Staff lane Drive, following an altercation animals to a 100-pound farms, Simmons said. Lamar Simmons, left, a farmer in northwest Oktibbeha County, outside a Columbus store, accord- German Shepherd with no The dog entered Sim- presents his case for amending the county’s vicious dog ordi- ing to a Columbus Police Depart- known owner. mons’ property through nance to the board of supervisors at Tuesday’s meeting. Simmons ment press release. Police Chief said a stray 100-pound German Shepherd killed 13 animals on Meanwhile, no one can a fence that should have his farm. He was told that the Oktibbeha County Humane Society Fred Shelton told The Dispatch tell him exactly where the been able to keep it out by re-homed the dog, but the Humane Society denies this and the there was “an exchange of gunfire.” dog is now. See ORDINANCE, 6A county sheriff’s department does not know where the dog is. See SHOOTING, 6A WEATHER FIVE QUESTIONS CALENDAR LOCAL FOLKS PUBLIC MEETINGS 1 How many times are Mexican refried beans Friday Sept. 15: fried? ■ 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb: North 2 Which of the following is not part of French Mississippi Medical Center-West Point Lowndes Coun- Polynesia — Bora Bora, Fiji, Marquesas or ty Fiscal Year Tahiti? 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Trump said NEW YORK — President Don- Wednesday he was just being a “cheerleader” for the nation and trying ald Trump and his Republican Par- to keep everyone calm. ty jointly raised $210 million in Au- His public rhetoric, Trump told Woodward in March, was part of a gust, a robust sum but one dwarfed strategy to deliberately minimize the danger. “I wanted to always play by the record $364.5 million raised it down,” the president said. “I still like playing it down because I don’t by Democrats and their nominee, want to create a panic.” Joe Biden. Trump, according to the book, acknowledged being alarmed by the Trump’s campaign released its virus, even as he was telling the nation that it would swiftly disappear. figure Wednesday, several days Coming less than eight weeks before Election Day, the revelations in later than usual and nearly a week the book — accompanied by recordings Woodward made of his inter- after the Biden campaign unveiled views with Trump — provide an unwelcome return of public attention its total, the highest for any one to the president’s handling of the pandemic that has so far killed about month during a presidential cam- 190,000 Americans. He is currently pushing hard for a resumption of paign. The president’s reelection normal activity and trying to project strength and control to bolster his team said it brought in more money political position in his campaign against Democrat Joe Biden. during its party’s convention than the Democrats did in theirs, and strategy better.” grass-roots supporters as well as officials insisted they “will have all But the noticeable fundraising deep-pocketed donors, and should the resources we need” ahead of gap between the two candidates alleviate any lingering concern over November. was certain to further rattle Re- whether Democrats will be able to “Both campaigns are raising publicans already nervous about inundate the airwaves in key states. massive amounts of money but have Biden’s advantage over Trump in The Trump campaign, however, very different priorities about how some battleground states that could faces questions about how it has to spend it,” said Trump campaign decide the election.