NATCHEZ — Thieves struck the Adams County storage barn on Foster Mound Road last week, damaging property and stealing county-owned equipment.

County Road Manager Robbie Dollar told the Adams County Board of Supervisors at their meeting Monday that the burglary happened March 13.

“The lock was cut off the gate, they broke into the back of the barn through the tin and went into the office,” Dollar said.

Inside the barn, the thieves took an air compressor, chainsaws and metal grinders, among other things, Dollar said.

The road manager said this was the second time the barn has been hit by sticky-fingered vandals in five months. The first time was in October.

Investigators with the Adams County Sheriff’s Office were not able to lift fingerprints of the thieves from the site, Dollar said.

When Supervisor David Carter asked if it would be possible to place security cameras at the barn, ACSO Maj. Billy Neely said, “We can do anything you want to do.”

Carter said that cameras are not as expensive as they once were.

“You can now get cameras that roll on (detection of) motion,” he said.

Supervisors’ President Darryl Grennell said the supervisors should investigate the possibility of placing cameras on the property.

Also during the meeting, the supervisors voted to grant a variance to the county tower ordinance that would allow Crown Castle Communications to build a 250-foot tall telecommunications tower at 511 Liberty Road.

Without the variance, by law the tower could not be constructed because its height exceeds the property lines on which it will be built, meaning that if it was to fall it would fall onto the property of others.

The supervisors voted to grant the variance because Spencer Stutzman, who makes recommendations about allowing tower construction to the board, said all of the surrounding landowners had signed waivers.

The board passed the variance pending the execution of a warrant by the tower company stating it had received waivers from all the landowners.

In other news:

-The supervisors presented the Adams County Master Gardeners with a resolution of support for their community service.

-The supervisors voted to receive two trailers into the county inventory from Natchez Regional Medical Center.

One of the trailers was formerly a hyperbaric chamber, and the other previously housed two physicians.

The supervisors accepted the trailers after Grennell read a letter from the hospital stating that NRMC no longer had a need for the trailers.

-Natchez-Adams County Airport Manager Clint Pomeroy told the supervisors that the airport has received word from the Federal Aviation Authority that its current application for a crack seal and rejuvenating coat on two runways will be forthcoming.

The FAA will fund the project at a rate of $133,800, Pomeroy said.

-The supervisors voted to give Board Attorney Scott Slover the authority to acquire legal easements for a project to arrest erosion on Triplet Lane. Erosion in the area has threatened the structure of the road.