After nearly three years of work, Calhoun City has been approved for a $861,500 loan for sewer improvements of which the city will only have to repay 25%.
New pastors coming to Methodist churches in Bruce, Calhoun City
May 18, 2013 By
Methodist churches in Bruce and Calhoun City are both scheduled to receive new pastors in June.
May 18, 2013 By
Bruce High School Senior Canon Benefield, left, was the recipient of the United States Marines Youth Award for Musical Excellence at the recent Bruce Band Banquet. Senior Grayson Denley, right, was the recipient of the John Phillip Sousa Award. The award is a nationally recognized award given primarily to a senior who exhibits outstanding leadership, musicality, responsibility, and has a true spirit of being a great band member. Both are pictured with Bruce Band Director Jon Bland. Photos by Kevin Cozart
Vardaman’s Morgan earns highest academic honor at Ole Miss
May 17, 2013 By
Stephen Morgan, of Vardaman, is among 59 University of Mississippi students to receive a 2013 Taylor Medal, the university’s highest academic award. The outstanding students were recognized recently during the 70th annual Honors Convocation at the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts.
Vernon Keith Mooneyham
May 17, 2013 By
Erma Clara Morgan Howell
May 17, 2013 By
Hegwood growing healthy artichoke crop in Pittsboro
May 17, 2013 By
Rick Hegwood of Pittsboro is among the few not complaining about the cool, wet spring. It’s helped provide him with a bumper crop of artichokes.
May 17, 2013 By
Rick Hegwood of Pittsboro is enjoying his first crop of artichokes this spring. Hegwood said he searched for something unique he could plant in his garden and was surprised to find that artichokes, typically grown in California, would also work in our zone. Read the related story below. Photo by Joel McNeece
Jesse Yancy Memorial Library to celebrate Children’s Book Week
May 17, 2013 By
Jesse Yancy Memorial Library in Bruce will celebrate Children’s Book Week with a host of activities beginning this weekend.
Lanelle Wood Couch
May 16, 2013 By
Lanelle Wood Couch, 85, of Grenada, passed away Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at Baptist Memorial Hospital – Desoto in Southaven. She was born in Calhoun County to the late Dave and Ivy Baker Wood. She was an active member of the Grenada Pilot Club, the Gideons’ Ladies’ Auxiliary and was the former owner of Carroll-Black Flowers in Grenada. She was also a devoted member of First Baptist Church in Grenada where she sang in the choir for many years.
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