City of Brookhaven considers creating walking trail to help fight health issues

Brookhaven aldermen took the first steps toward construction of a walking trail as a preventative for suicide and obesity. Dr. William Hay, a family practitioner, proposed the trail to the Board at its Nov. 3 meeting. Hay suggested a trail 10- to 12-feet wide on public land that would stretch five miles through a wooded area. He used businesses as his landmarks to give aldermen an idea of the route for the trail — Farmbelt Equipment at Natchez Drive and Hwy. 84 to the Old Koke Plant convenience store at Natchez Drive, and Hwy. 51 South, over to Road and Track Powersports at Dale Trail NE and Hwy. 51, and then back to Farmbelt. “That’s actually down a road that I’m sure you all know exists, but a lot of people don’t,” he said. “I’ve heard it called St. John Road or Old Highway 51, and it’s a public road, or it has been. And it’s grass now. It’s woods.

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