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Derma board agrees to clean up properties
Derma board of aldermen agreed on a budget for the new year as presented and voted to clean up two properties they have not been able to get property owners to take care of at Tuesday’s meeting. Dock...
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Calhoun City sewer project cleared for start up
Mayor J. R. Denton told the Calhoun City Board at their meeting last night that their long-awaited sewer improvement project has been cleared for the startup. They have received a grant and all the...
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Pittsboro board talks budget, speed bumps, alcohol regulations
The Pittsboro board spent the bulk of their meeting talking about the 2013-14 budget, but also touched on speed bumps and the ongoing effort to legalize the sale of alcohol in the town. Reda Bullard...
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AT&T to erect cell tower in Bruce; town postpones paving plans
The Bruce Board of Aldermen approved an agreement Tuesday night for AT&T to install a cell tower in Bruce. The new “free standing” tower will be erected on the south end of Bruce Community Living...
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Pick’em and Win returns in this week’s Journal
The annual “Pick’em and Win” football contest returned in this week’s edition of The Journal where readers have an opportunity to win up to $25 and a t-shirt. The contest can be found on page 10 of...
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State’s toughest, best editorial writer lives in Rolling Fork
Mississippi’s journalism annuls are filled with stories of courage and strength under pressure. Most of those stories emanate from the civil rights era – when truth in reporting wasn’t valued in some...
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From A to Z, why the Saints are Mississippi’s team
From A to Z, the reasons the New Orleans Saints, who open Sunday against the Atlanta Dirty Birds, are Mississippi’s team: A is for Archie, as in Archie Who? He was the Saint of Saints. B is for Brees....
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Jordan England leads a powerful Calhoun City line, on the field and in the...
Calhoun City center Jordan England will tell you life in the trenches isn’t easy. “It’s tough and it all depends on who you’re playing,” England said. “They might have a fast guy, a strong guy or...
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Katie Mae Rose recalls the Bruce she first knew in the 1940s
The Bruce of today isn’t the Bruce Katie Mae Rose knew when she first moved here 70 years ago. She and her husband Norman Rose moved here in the early 1940s when he went to work at the Bruce Company...
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2013 Vardaman Ram Cheerleaders are, from left, front, McKenzie Fortner, Jessica Rogers, Hannah Ward, Anna Harrison, Johnna Landreth; back, Abby Haire, Kristen Russell, Alaysia Madkins, Sydney Huffman,...
View ArticleAngie M. Stone
Angelia Maria White Stone, 53, of Pittsboro, died September 4, 2013 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford. She was born August 19, 1959 in Memphis, the daughter of Jeff White and Thelma Lynn Murphree...
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Northwest hit with sanctions for oversigning
Northwest Mississippi Community College, one of the winningest programs in junior college football history, has been hit with three years of sanctions by the MACJC through the 2015 season. The...
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State officials to study options for downsizing wild hog population
A joint meeting of the Mississippi Senate and House Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks Committees will be held at 10 a.m., on Monday, September 9, 2013, in room 113 of the Capitol, seeking ways to downsize...
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Chickenbone Fire Dept. Cooking this Saturday
Chickenbone Fire Dept. BBQ cooking is this Saturday, Sept. 7 beside Connie’s Flowers in Bruce. Serving will be from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. BBQ Plates, nachos and sandwiches will be served. The Journal had the...
View ArticleJimmy Allred
Jimmy Allred, 65, of Bruce, died September 4, 2013 at his home. He was born April 17, 1948 in Bruce, the son of Walter Walker Allred and Euris Murphree Allred. He was a 1966 graduate of Bruce High...
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Calhoun City woman injured in crash on Hwy. 9 in Bruce
A Calhoun City woman was transported to the hospital after a two-car accident at the intersection of Sam Nation Road and Hwy. 9 this morning in Bruce. Brenda Bailey, of Calhoun City, was transported...
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Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann visited Calhoun City Rotary Club Thursday to speak about voter ID and a number of other issues. Pictured, from left, are Chodie Myers, Hosemann, James Franklin and...
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Calhoun City man uninjured in Thursday afternoon wreck on Hwy. 8
A Calhoun City man avoided injury Thursday afternoon when the truck and trailer he was driving on Hwy. 8 east of Derma crashed off the side of the road. Eddie Armstrong said he was forced to slam on...
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Moore, Shankle lead Cougars to 24-18 win over North Sunflower
Calhoun Academy earned their first win of the season with a 24-28 victory over North Sunflower Friday night. The Cougars got on the board first in a back-and-forth first quarter with a J.T. Washington...
View ArticleTough start continues for Rams, fall 44-6 to Noxapater
The challenging start to the season continued Friday night for the Vardaman Rams as they were defeated at home 44-6 by Noxapapter. Noxapapter ran off 32 unanswered points to open the game. Vardaman got...
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