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County budget and one mil tax increase adopted
Calhoun County Supervisors held their annual budget hearing where no objections were voiced and the proposed FY 19-20 budget was approved unanimously at last Friday’s meeting in Pittsboro. The proposed...
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Calhoun City adopts budget, no objections
Calhoun City mayor and board of aldermen held their 2020 budget hearing and then adopted it as proposed at a pair of meetings this month. Mayor Amye Hill gave a brief synopsis of the proposed FY 20...
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Bruce celebrating homecoming this week
Bruce Senior Homecoming maids are Anna Grace Pullen, Tekera Armstrong, Clara Garner and Tamiyah Tubbs. One of them will be crowned 2019-20 Homecoming Queen this Friday night. Homecoming festivities are...
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County Tractor Club to host annual plow day Saturday
Calhoun County Antique Tractor Club will host its annual Plow Day Sept. 21. The event will take place at Murphree’s sorghum mill approximately 10 miles east of Bruce on Hwy 32. It will run from 8 a.m....
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Miss. State students tour Calhoun County’s sweet potato industry
Calhoun County Extension Office recently worked with Mississippi State University Food Science to facilitate a tour of the Sweet Potato Industry in Calhoun County. Michelle Garraway, MSU Center for...
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‘Live to Ride, Ride to Live’ – Winter finds brotherhood, service through his...
Mike Winter was four or five years old, standing on the side of a gravel road in Bruce when his cousin Lennon Ray White roared up the road on an old motorcycle. “He stopped and asked if I wanted to...
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Bruce High Music class makes model song
BHS band director Cody Roberts teaches general music second block every day. The class contains eight students, and they recently used the folk song “Home On The Range” to create a model of a song...
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Casmus earns latest Veteran of the Month honor from DAV
George Edward “Sonny” Casmus ,of Big Creek, has been named Calhoun County Veteran of the month by the Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary Unit 26. He enlisted in the Army on Sept. 28, 1965. He served...
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Leaders of the Bands – Bruce, ‘City drum majors excited about new season
As football season hits its stride, drum majors are helping prepare their bands for football game performances and competitions. Tony Toups Standing on the podium conducting Bruce High School Marching...
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State accreditation grades released for Calhoun County Schools
State accountability scores have been released by the Mississippi Department of Education for Calhoun County Schools featuring four Bs, one C, two Ds, and one F. Calhoun County School District as a...
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Pullen crowned Bruce Homecoming Queen
Anna Grace Pullen was crowned Bruce High School Homecoming queen last Friday night. She was escorted by her father, Henry Pullen. To her right are last year’s queen, Jamee Jackson, and BHS principal...
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Southern Roots hosts ribbon cutting
Ribbon cutting at Southern Roots Salon on the square in Bruce was held recently. Among those in attended were, l to r, Bruce Chamber president J.J. Winter, Canzas Williams, owner Laken Longest Webb,...
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School accreditation features good and bad for school district
State accreditation grades released last week by the state for Calhoun County Schools featured some positives and negatives. The positives came in the form of four schools – Bruce Elementary, Bruce...
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Poteete to share hobby at festival
The ancient process of flintknapping, turning stone into arrowheads, blades, and other tools, will be demonstrated at the Skuna River Art Festival on October 12. Ronnie Poteete of Bruce is a “new...
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Antique Tractor Club’s Plow Day
The Calhoun County Antique Tractor Club had a successful Plow Day Saturday with 12 participating tractors. Some had turning plows ranging from one bottom to four bottom, and three disk brought as well....
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Sales tax returns stagnant thus far this fiscal year
Sales tax returns for Calhoun County municipalities are largely stagnant for 2019. Bruce’s fiscal year-to-date (starting July 1) total is $80,134 compared to $80,050 at this time last year. Bruce...
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Vardaman High School Homecoming is Friday
Vardaman High School will host Homecoming festivities this week. This year’s theme is “Blast from the Past.” The 2019 Homecoming Queen will be crowned in pregame festivities Friday night at Carter...
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Main Street representative speaks to Bruce Chamber
Mississippi Main Street Association State Coordinator Thomas Gregory told the Bruce Chamber last week his organization has been instrumental in starting 247 new businesses. Gregory said Main Street was...
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Going Bananas… Marvin Dickson excited about his surprise crop
Marvin Dickson was working in his yard on Hwy. 341 North, just above Hwy. 32 when he heard his wife Wanda scream, “Baby, Bananas!” “No, ain’t no way,” Marvin answered in disbelief. But he walked over,...
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MBN, Sheriff’s Office join forces to search the county for marijuana
Calhoun County Sheriff’s Department and the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics (MBN) combed the county by air last week looking for marijuana plants. The search was part of a statewide program by MBN...
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