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Jan Mayhan retires
Jan Mayhan was honored with a retirement reception at the Calhoun County Courthouse recently. Mayhan has been a bus driver for Lift Inc. for the past 30 years. With her are Supervisor Barney Wade and...
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Pearlie Mae (Bracy) Thomas, 61, of Calhoun City, died Saturday, July 11, 2015 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford. Services will be Saturday, July 18, 2015 at New Hope COGIC at 11 a. m. Burial...
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Billy Ray Covington, 26, of Calhoun City, died Saturday, July 11, 2015 in Big Creek. Services will be held Friday, July 17, 2015 at Jackson Chapel M.B. Church at 1 p.m. Burial will be in Cane Creek...
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Bro. Billy Q. McCord, of Bruce, died at Calhoun Health Services in Calhoun City, Tuesday, July 14, 2015. Born March 30, 1940 in Shady Grove Community, he was the son of the late Vard McCord and the...
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Walmart officials speak to ‘City Chamber; new Ace Cannon signs shown
Derma WalMart Manager Tim Weeks and Support Manager Michelle Good presented the program for the Calhoun City Chamber of Commerce meeting Tuesday at lunch. “Since opening in January, it’s gone very...
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Supervisors hear budget presentations from department heads
Calhoun County Supervisors listened to budget proposals from county departments at Tuesday’s meeting in Pittsboro. Sheriff Greg Pollan, Justice Court Clerk Tracy McGuirt, Circuit Clerk Carlton Baker,...
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Vardaman man attacks stranger with machete, lights self on fire and dives...
A Vardaman man is out on bond after attacking another man with a machete, lighting himself on fire and diving head first under a truck going down the road. Vardaman Police Chief Kenneth Scott said...
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Jude Hawkins, Sandlot Legends win World Series
Jude Hawkins’ 9U Major team, the Sandlot Legends based out of Saltillo won all eight of their games last weekend to win the USSSA Global World Series in Foley, Alabama. Hawkins, the son of Raven and...
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Vickie Sutherland
Vickie Sutherland of Bruce says she doesn’t cook as much as she used to, but loves to cook when her kids come over. Vegetables are among her favorite things to cook, and homemade lasagna is a family...
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Lessons on official symbolism beckon from across Miss. River
STARKVILLE – From Washington to Charleston, South Carolina and across the states that comprised the old Confederacy, debates continue to rage over vestiges and symbols of the Civil War. The debate is...
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Banana wins top honors among Sawmill Fest’s homemade ice cream
Was it this hot last year? I don’t think so. It is miserably, dangerously hot and I absolutely hate it. I can handle cold much better. I do remember SEVERAL people saying in our long cold winter, that...
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Potential Sawmill Festival record
It will go down as possibly the hottest Sawmill Festival in history, but I’m not referring exclusively to the near 100 degree heat, but also the remarkable fireworks show that put the exclamation point...
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Calhoun City man arrested for Vardaman store robbery
A Calhoun City man has been arrested for robbing the Vardaman Xpress store early Sunday morning with a knife. Anthony Pierce Anthony Earl Pierce, 44, was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon after...
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Allred earns Yard of the Month
The July Yard of the Month has been awarded to Maria Allred of Bruce by the Twentieth Century Club. Photo by Celia Hillhouse
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George Bryan earned this year’s Rube Award
Sixteen years after the fact, it still seems hard to believe West Point’s George Bryan pulled off what he pulled off. Bryan, in June of 1999, brought the U.S. Women’s Open Championship to Old Waverley,...
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Vardaman mayor inducted into MML Hall of Fame
James M. Casey, Vardaman Mayor, was inducted into the Mississippi Municipal League’s Hall of Fame recently at the MML Annual Conference held in Biloxi. Vardaman Mayor James Casey The MML Hall of Fame...
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Calhoun County Fair opens July 20
The 92nd annual Calhoun County Fair is set for July 20-25. The Fair will open Monday, July 20 with the annual Fairest of the Fair pageant at 6:30 p.m. Entry fees are $15 for beauty, $10 for photogenic....
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Steve Bryant feels at home in the garden
Steve Bryant of the Old Town Community has been growing vegetables virtually his entire life. “We had big work horses when I was a kid, and I plowed behind them for days,” Bryant said. “That’s all we...
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Vardaman’s Kent Casey earns MML scholarship
Nicholas Kent Casey of Vardaman, was recently awarded the Mississippi Municipal League’s 2015 Limited Scholarship. The $2000 scholarship is co-sponsored by the Mississippi Municipal Service Company and...
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Bruce Braves finish season strong
The Bruce Braves 11-12 year old baseball team recently completed a successful season. Team members are, front, l to r, Connor Starks, Zack Dotson, Carter Reeves, Austin Stroup; standing, l to r, Kobe...
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