July 5’s Board of Aldermen meeting carted in discussion on street legal vehicles inside the town limits.
Mayor Chuck Cariker said he had spoken to leaders of other communities during the Mississippi Municipal League’s conference at the end of June.  How to handle golf carts on streets was a popular topic among many.
Cariker said he would like to propose an ordinance asking citizens with golf carts to pay a $25 registration fee with the police department. They would be required to have liability insurance and would only be allowed west of Highway 61. Drivers could cross River Road and Magnolia Street but would be encouraged not to drive up and down them. Cart owners would also be asked to sign a waiver releasing the town of any liability.

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The Natural Resource Conservation Service has partnered with a Tunica farmer to implement what, when completed, will become the first comprehensive tail water recovery system in the county.
The project, which is located on 500 acres of land owned by Mike Boyd, just off Bonnie Blue Road in central Tunica County, utilizes a complex system of ditches, pads–or small levees–and pumps to divert water to and from a water retention reservoir on an as-needed basis.  

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Tunica County experienced more than a rise in river waters after the near-historic Flood of 2011. With the forced closure of all nine of Tunica’s casinos and other affected businesses, unemployment claims reached a historic high for the month of May, eclipsing all other Mississippi counties’ figures by double digits.
According to Mississippi Employment Security Commission statistics, Tunica County posted the highest number of unemployment claims in the state for the month of May with a 31.1 percent unemployment rate. During this same period of time, the Mississippi state average was 10 percent, with the next-highest posting behind Tunica coming from Claiborne County with a 17.7 percent unemployment rate.

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The streets of downtown Tunica will be painted in red, white and blue on Friday, July 1 as the annual Independence Day parade returns.
Tunica Main Street invites kids to bring their bicycles, tricycles, wagons, big wheels, strollers, etc. to the MarketPlace beginning at 5 p.m. Parade participants can then decorate their transportation in all the holiday razzle dazzle.

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