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Supervisors approve grant, travel expense for conference
Calhoun County Supervisors accepted a solid waste grant, declared an old truck surplus property, and approved travel expenses for board members to attend a conference next week on the Gulf Coast during...
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Calhoun County’s Relay For Life raises more than $40,000
Calhoun County’s 2015 Relay for Life event raised approximately $43,000 for the American Cancer Society while honoring local survivors and remembering those lost to cancer. Darrell Logan gets ready to...
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Calhoun City SquareFest scheduled for May 29-30
A successful Spring Fling, the fast approaching SquareFest, and the annual Chamber Banquet were all discussed Tuesday at the Calhoun City Chamber of Commerce’s monthly meeting. President Laura Edwards...
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Celebration of 20 years of Excel planned for April 26
“It’s really difficult to believe it’s been 20 years since the first group of elementary students came to the mobile home unit on the Calhoun City High School campus for Summer Excel,” Donna Cole...
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Bruce High School announces 2015 honors
With graduation quickly approaching, BHS seniors are hustling to finish work, working to complete classes, and making final decisions about college. The teaching staff has also been extremely busy...
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Teacher of the Year Amanda Gulledge shares her passion for art with students
Calhoun County art teacher Amanda Gulledge said she was “completely surprised” when Superintendent Mike Moore announced she was the 2014-15 teacher of the year for Calhoun County Schools. “I was...
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Carolyn Easley has loved art as both career, hobby
Carolyn Easley began drawing at a young age. Once her parents saw her strong interest for creating pictures, they purchased her a drawing board and art supplies. After high school, she studied at the...
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Calhoun County population continues very gradual decline
Calhoun County’s population is continuing a very gradual decline, according to statistics recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau. A new population estimate of 14,745 was recently released for the...
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Grenada man killed in Hwy. 8 accident this morning
A fatal accident occurred around 8:30 this morning on Hwy 8 West in Calhoun County near County Road 380. A white 2007 Chevrolet Extended Cab pickup driven by 37 year old Darlene Farmer of Coffeeville...
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Ruths earn Margery B. Rogers Clark Scholarship
Teaching history to the next generation is one way of preserving it. The Margery B. Rogers Clark Memorial Scholarship was bestowed on Jacob Ruth and Jade Ruth recently at the eighth annual ceremonies...
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Bruce Chamber outlines priorities for new year; offers first look at 2015...
The Bruce Chamber of Commerce began their new year Monday forming a list of priorities for the organization to work toward. The priorities, in no particular order, included a renewed effort on...
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Bank of Okolona planning to open in Bruce; Baker leaves BancorpSouth
The Bank of Okolona is planning to open a new location in Bruce in the coming months and will have a familiar manager to the Bruce community. Randy Baker Randy Baker, of Banner, who has served as...
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Chuck Lovorn creating his own niche in Calhoun City
A custom t-shirt shop, a large scale print operation, a retailer for unique candles, provider of one-of-a-kind Mississippi State University apparel, a marketing agency, website builder and much more,...
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Two Houston men injured in Wednesday accident in Vardaman
An accident late Wednesday afternoon on Hwy. 8 in Vardaman between a pickup and an 18-wheeler sent two brothers to the hospital. An 18-wheeler hauling sweet potatoes was stopped in the highway waiting...
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Bill Williams aims to return WWII flag to Japanese soldiers’ families
Bill Williams, of Calhoun City, was listening to National Public Radio one day when he heard a story that struck a chord with him. The radio report chronicled how some aging veterans of World War II...
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John Steele Davis prefers to create “functional art”
John Steele Davis grew up in the Ellard community, attended Bruce High School and Northwest Community College. He went on to become a hard working blue collar worker, leading a simple lifestyle....
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Wagner, Tindall earn STAR student teacher honors at Calhoun Academy
Keely Wagner has been named as a STAR (Student-Teacher Achievement Recognition) Student for the 2014-2015 school year by the Mississippi Economic Council M.B. Swayze Foundation, sponsor of the STAR...
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Shining seniors of Bruce High
With graduation quickly approaching, seniors are working hard to make their last year at BHS the best. These “Shining Seniors” each have unique, individual goals for their time left here. Son of Mark...
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Authorities investigating homicide on West Taylor in Calhoun City
The Calhoun County Sheriffs Department and Calhoun City Police are investigating a homicide that took place some time today on West Taylor Avenue in Calhoun City. The Mississippi Bureau of...
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Art class studies pointillism
Some great art is coming about at the Calhoun County Career and Technical Center in Calhoun City. Bruce students, along with others from the rest of the county, are studying pointillism in Amanda...
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