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Hatley defeats Calhoun City 12-6 to win series
Calhoun City’s baseball season came to an end Friday night at Hatley with a 12-6 loss in the deciding game three. Jordan England is greeted at home plate after hitting a 2-run home run in the first...
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Gunn, Coleman, Tucker, Cousins, Jennings advance to state track
Five Calhoun County athletes will advance to the state track meet in Pearl this Saturday, May 9. Bruce’s Tyrique Gunn will compete in the triple jump and 110 meter hurdles. Four Calhoun City athletes...
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Supervisors open bids on two projects; Fox questions quick sentencing in...
Calhoun County Supervisors opened bids on two projects in the county including paving just over a mile of the Big Creek Road. Lehman Roberts submitted the low bid for the paving of CR 306 at $252,825....
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Supervisors open bids
Calhoun County Supervisors opened bids Monday morning for a bridge repair and to pave up to a mile of the Big Creek Road. The low bid on the paving of CR 306 was over a quarter of a million dollars....
View ArticleHomer Watkins
Homer Watkins, 76, of Noxapater, went to his heavenly home Thursday, Apr. 30, 2015, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Funeral services were Sunday at 2 p.m. at Noxapater Methodist Church...
View ArticleSammy Cumberland
Sammy Wayne Cumberland, 66, of Houston, died Friday, May 1, 2015, at his home. Born October 28, 1948, he was the son of the late Norman Cumberland and Hazel Pilgrim Cumberland of Calhoun City. He was...
View ArticleClara Wolf
Clara Mae Wolf, 90, of Coffeeville, died Saturday, May 2, 2015 at Baptist Memorial Hospital–NM in Oxford. She was born June 8, 1924 in Durham, NC. She was a retired business owner and member of Clear...
View ArticleDoris Haire
Doris McGee Haire, 81, of Calhoun City died Saturday, May 2, 2015 at North MS Medical Center in Tupelo. She was born February 1, 1934. in Greenwood, the daughter of Island McGee and Alma Franks McGee....
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Spring Football tour continues
We continue our tour around Calhoun County spring football practice checking in on all four schools. Coach Tim Melton steers the blocking sled as his Calhoun Academy Cougars work during practice Monday...
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Car accident causes damage on Main Street in Vardaman
The northern most median on Main Street in Vardaman suffered significant damage around 5:30 a.m. Tuesday from a car accident. Authorities said a Hispanic man was driving north when he had an apparent...
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Melton leaving to take Delta Academy job; Winters to take over CA football
Tim Melton is leaving Calhoun Academy to become head football and track coach at Delta Academy in Marks. “There’s a lot of emotion about leaving here, but this was an opportunity that we couldn’t pass...
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Whores by any other name
ROLLING FORK— A conservative friend of mine contacted me last week highly irate over the notion that the professional ladies at Nevada’s famed Bunny Ranch had made something of an unorthodox political...
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Big afternoon for Addie Claire, but hard for Grana to let go
Six-year-old granddaughter Addi Claire had quite the triumphant weekend as she mastered riding her bike without training wheels. Friday night I noticed that she was riding the bike pretty much balanced...
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Poverty, not race, is the core issue
If you read or watched any of the national news coverage over the past week, you were certainly inundated with the scenes out of Baltimore. Civil unrest that included violence, looting and more,...
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Clark Dowdy chosen for Crossroads game; England, Liles in NEMCABB
The Bruce Trojans will have two representatives in the 2015 Crossroads All Star Game at Trustmark Park in Pearl June 6. Senior outfielder Cade Clark has been selected to play in the game. Clark hit...
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Liles to play football at Millsaps
Calhoun City linebacker Steele Liles is expected to sign a football scholarship with Millsaps College this Thursday in a ceremony at Calhoun City High School. Steele Liles Liles was the leading tackler...
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FBC Day Care walk-a-thon
Bruce First Baptist Creative Learning Center day care held their annual St. Jude Walk-a-Thon recently. Getting their cards punched for each lap walked by director Rose Mary Shelton are Rileigh Kate...
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Vickie Harrell
Usually starting in November and going through January, Vickie Todd Harrell of Vardaman and formerly of Bruce, continuously makes batches of sourdough bread. Her family all loves it, especially when...
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Derma police get new body cameras
Derma Police Chief Stan Evans and policeman Corey Alexander showed the mayor and board of aldermen new body cameras they are now using. Evans said that it is mandatory that all officers wear the...
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911 addresses still an issue in Vardaman
Vardaman maintenance supervisor Brent Sutherland said approximately a third of residences in Vardaman where they read water meters don’t have proper 911 address posting. James Casey Mayor James Casey...
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