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Town Christmas parades, festivities begin this week
Christmas festivities begin around Calhoun County this week starting with the annual Bruce Rotary Auction. The auction will be held in the Bruce Museum on Thursday, Nov. 29 to kickoff the weekend’s...
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MPE grant helps Moore provide impactful experiments for students
Anamaria Moore, a 9th-12th grade Biology 1 and English IV teacher at Vardaman High School, recently received a classroom grant from the Mississippi Professional Educators (MPE). She plans to use her...
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Calhoun County History – Charter Fine Arts Club members are honored
May 12, 1955 – Thursday, April 28th the recreation room of the Bruce Baptist Church was a scene of beauty in a garden-like setting for the tea given in honor of the charter members of the Fine Arts...
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Supervisors open several bids; discuss fallen tree on CR 262
Bid openings for engineering services, new truck and trailer, feeding prisoners, and a dispute over a fallen tree dominated Monday’s board of supervisors meeting. David Williams, who lives on CR 262...
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Calhoun City to seek state funds for road improvements
Calhoun City aldermen selected Willis Engineering for services on their water well replacement project at their regular meeting last night. They also authorized the submission of an application for...
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Derma buys bulletproof vests for police; will ban trucks from Strong Street
Derma board of aldermen approved the purchase of bulletproof vests for the police department at their regular meeting last night. They agreed to purchase two vests for $650 each from Mississippi Police...
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Vardaman board listens to requests for upgrades at Sportsplex
Sportsplex director Caleb Tedder appeared at the Vardaman board meeting last night to discuss needed upgrades at the facility. Tedder said he wanted to redo some batting cages, fences and dugouts,...
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Bruce board tackles range of issues
The Bruce mayor and board of aldermen approved a new ordinance, put a new requirement on restaurants, declined to change the dog ordinance and heard an audit report in Tuesday’s meeting. Items...
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Bollinger Family Theater returns with two shows Saturday
The Bollinger Family Theater in Bruce is returning this Saturday, Dec. 8 for some special Christmas shows at 2 and 7 p.m. and a possible kickoff to more to come over the next year. The theater first...
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Beauty and the Beast Jr. set for February
Centerstage of Calhoun County will present performances of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Jr. The musical is based on the original tale of Belle, a beautiful village woman who yearns for adventure, and...
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Wade service, processional set for Friday
The remains of Durrell Wade, a WWII Navy Sailor killed aboard the USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 , will be at Pryor Funeral Home Friday, Dec. 7, 2018 exactly 77 years from the date he was...
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Ace Cannon died this morning at his home
Ace Cannon, the “Godfather of Sax,” died at his home in Calhoun City this morning. Service information is not yet known. We will share that as soon as it is available. An inductee of numerous Hall of...
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Writer researches Turkey Creek community records
October 3, 1953 – In the State Archives at Jackson there are many old records. It has been my great pleasure to look many of them over throughout past years where there is revealed many things of a...
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Pearl Harbor veteran Durell Wade laid to rest
Durell Wade, of Slate Springs, who was killed during the attack at Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941, and whose remains were only recently recovered from the site, was honored with a pair of services and a...
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Redneck Christmas Parade is Saturday in Big Creek
The final Christmas parade in the county will be the 19th Annual Big Creek Redneck Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 15 at 6 p.m. Lineup will begin at 5 p.m. and the parade will be held rain or shine....
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CCJ Editor Lisa McNeece remembered
Lisa Denley McNeece, a lifelong newspaperwoman whose love of ink on paper was rivaled only by her dedication to family and to her dogs, died Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018, at her home in Bruce. She was 58....
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Christmas lighting contest is Dec. 16
The 20th Century Club of Bruce will judge its annual Christmas Lighting Contest on Sunday, Dec. 16. Judges will begin touring the town around 5:30 p.m. First, second and third place winners will be...
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BHS students share their plans for Christmas
During December students and teachers at BHS get excited about Christmas break. Most plan on staying home and just enjoying the break. They want to catch up on extra sleep and just enjoy some alone...
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Remaining Excel funds put into scholarships
After serving children in an after school and summer learning program for 23 years, Excel is no longer able to provide this service to the families of Calhoun County. Because much of the funding that...
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Burnetts win best tree; McCrorys are first overall
Twentieth Century Club of Bruce announces 2018 Christmas light contest winners. Christmas lighting contest winners: Best Tree: 1st - Cheryl & Mack Burnette 2nd - Melissa & Brad Logan 3rd -...
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