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‘City sweeps O’Bannon; falls on road to Houlka
The Calhoun City Wildcats won three of five games over the past week to improve to 5-3 on the season. They swept a pair from O’bannon last Saturday, 18-1 and 11-2. Chris Easley and Joseph Gray picked...
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Lady Rams host softball tournament on Thursday
The Vardaman Lady Rams are still hunting their first win of the season. Last week they lost 11-0 to East Webster. Grace Edmondson took the loss on the mound. Laci Jo Fugett hit a double. Eupora topped...
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Police find more counterfeit bills in Bruce
Bruce Police Dept. is again warning merchants to keep a look out for counterfeit $100 bills that are continuing to show up around town. Policeman Corey Alexander had five bills with an identical serial...
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Dr. Jim Aron was honored with a reception before speaking to the Loosa Schoona DAR Monday at Bruce Museum. With Aron are cousins Jeanine Ferguson Davis, Janae Ferguson Hagan, and his mother, Mitzi...
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Ken Winter
When Ken Winter left Bruce almost 40 years ago, he “couldn’t boil water.” He had to call back home to ask his grandmother, the late Maudie “Big Mama”?Winter how to make cornbread, which he stills makes...
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Fire truck dilemma impacting entire county
Pittsboro’s mayor and board of aldermen find themselves in quite the dilemma. They must purchase a brand new fire truck, or insurance rates for area property owners, including county government, will...
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Will drug testing for welfare benefits really save tax dollars?
Mississippi lawmakers are into the home stretch in the 2014 legislative session, and one of the surviving bills is House Bill 49, which would require drug testing for some people who apply for...
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Learning to roller skate is easier today than when I was a kid
When I was growing up, we loved to roller skate. We skated in the drive-way, on the street and occasionally visited skating rinks. Our home skates were the kind that fit over your tennis shoes and you...
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The Delta’s newspapers tell region’s unique story
You can’t get more Southern than Mississippi, and no place in the Magnolia State evokes more Southern heritage and culture than the Delta. It is that most uniquely Southern place with a history like no...
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Chase Clark earns state Player of the Week honors from MACJC
Sophomore first baseman Chase Clark of Northwest has been named the MACJC Baseball Player of the Week for games played Monday, March 3 through Sunday, March 9. The weekly conference honor is the first...
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Edna Harrison Chapman, 87, of Coffeeville, died Tuesday, March 11, 2014 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford. She was born December 16, 1926 in Yalobusha County, to the late Lee and Susie McCammon...
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Bruce High School Senior Beauty Review was held recently at BHS?Auditorium. Elizabeth Whitten and Dolan Hollings were selected Most Beautiful and Most Handsome. Photo by Kim Ray
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Jimmy Hardin keeps family fish business thriving
It’s approaching the “busy season” at Hardin’s Fish just south of Calhoun City where Jimmy Hardin will begin working longer hours and delivering fish to seemingly all corners of the U.S. “I?don’t mind...
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Before the split finger, there was the “Willie Ball”
This was 105 years ago, before metal bats, before luxury suites and before any pitch was known as a split-fingered fastball or a circle change. This was even before Mississippi State was Mississippi...
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Jennings signs with Chicago
MD Jennings Chicago Bears announced they’ve agreed to terms Wednesday with former Green Bay Packers safety M.D. Jennings, of Calhoun City, on a one-year deal. Terms of the contract weren’t immediately...
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Four vehicles were involved in a wreck this afternoon around 4 p.m. in Pittsboro, but only one person was injured. A utility trailer detached from the SUV that was pulling it, causing a chain...
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Robert James Reid, age 87, formerly of New Orleans, LA, died Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford. He was born November 4, 1926 in Harmontown (Lafayette County), to the...
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Bruce’s Kim Gregory leads choir to Carnegie Hall
The Lafayette High School Choir, under the direction of Kim Gregory of Bruce, visited New York City to sing at Carnegie Hall March 9 with the National Youth Choir, directed by Dr. Lynne Gackle. “Dr....
View ArticleTravis Malone
Travis Dale Malone, 73 of Bruce died on Friday, March 14, 2014, at his residence. He was born December 18, 1940 in Calhoun County, the son of Renzie Poynor Malone and Sarah Crocker Malone. He was a...
View ArticleJack Green
Lester Miller “Jack” Green, Jr., age 84, died Saturday, March 15, 2014 at the Regional Medical Center in Memphis, TN. He was born February 19, 1930 in Moorehead, MS to the late Lester Miller, Sr. and...
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