Calhoun City Arts & Crafts Festival is this Saturday, May 25

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Sunny skies are forecast for this Saturday, May 25 when Calhoun City will host its annual Arts and Crafts Festival on the ‘City Square.

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Reagan Hardin earned 2013 STAR?Student honors at Calhoun City High School. She selected Pam McPhail as STAR?teacher. Calhoun City graduation is Friday at 6 p.m. Photo by Joel McNeece

So many to remember on Memorial Day and everyday

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We drive by them every day, the veterans’ monuments on the Bruce and Calhoun City squares. This approaching Memorial Day weekend is one we should take the time to look at them closer, understand the meaning of the many names etched in granite.

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Can’t argue with Burgerland’s selections for outstanding burgers in North Mississippi

Lisa McNeece

The Travel Channel’s Burgerland episode in North Mississippi was awesome. The first stop on the show was at Bill’s Hamburgers in Amory. That brought back so many memories of my dad, Sid Salter and I eating burgers there with bottled cokes.

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UAW and friends offer crocodile tears for Nissan job incentives

Sid Salter

As the United Auto Workers continue to try to win a union organization vote at Canton’s Nissan plant, they and their friends have begun public outpourings of crocodile tears over Mississippi’s economic development incentives utilized to bring the global automaker to the state.

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Shankle, Gee, Burton chosen for NEMSBCA All Star Game

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Bruce, Calhoun City and Vardaman each have a player chosen for the 2013 Northeast Mississippi Softball Coaches Association All Star Game in Tupelo.

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Doolittle, Baggett to particpate in Austrailia All Star games

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Two Calhoun County athletes will be traveling to Australia this summer to compete in football and basketball games.

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Ariel & Erin Keon

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At the Keon house in Bruce, the typical response to, “Hey, Mom, how do you…?” is “Go look it up!” according to Ariel and Erin, daughters of Scott and Vonda. Vonda always read the “old Firefox books” (about plain living) and just wanted to pass along the old-timey way to her girls. She wanted them to be self-sufficient, so she taught them how to cook and sew.

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Seventy-two to graduate from Bruce Friday at 8 p.m.

Salutatorian Elizabeth Hathorne, Valedictorian Laken Shankle, Salutatorian Kathryn Hathorne

Bruce and Calhoun City will hold commencement exercises Friday night and Vardaman Saturday afternoon as nearly 140 students will be awarded high school diplomas.

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Thirty-four to graduate from Calhoun City Friday at 6 p.m.

Valedictorians Reagan Hardin and Holley McGonagill, Salutatorian Rainer Nichols

Calhoun City’s graduation is set for 6 p.m. Friday, May 24 at the Calhoun City football field.

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