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Volunteer firefighters learn life saving skills The Choctaw Plaindealer Choctaw County volunteer firefighters learned life saving skills in an automobile extrication class, or commonly known as the Jaws class, Oct.

The dreariness of the weather which spread over last Saturday's Harvest Festival at French Camp Academy failed to dampen the spirits of bidders with more than $18,000 brought in from the auction.

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Rainwater Observatory in French Camp Mississippi will be offering a new series of four programs called Back Yard Astronomy.

CCEDF awards prize for video The Choctaw Plaindealer The Choctaw County Economic Development Foundation recently awarded $100 to the Technology Applications class at the Choctaw County Career and Technology Center.

French Camp plans for October Harvest Festival The word "hospitality" automatically brings to mind "Southern." The two just go together.

School board discusses Pre-K enrollment The Choctaw Plaindealer The Choctaw County School Board discussed Pre-Kindergarten registration and how students are enrolled and screened for Pre-K in Choctaw County.

August 6, 1959 A throng of Kosciuskoans was on hand to meet and greet movie personalities when they visited Kosciusko for the first time Wednesday afternoon just prior to the World Premier of the "Natchez Trace" movie at the Strand Theatre.

Choctaw County School board approves budgets The Choctaw Plaindealer The Choctaw County School Board approved all budgets for the 2009-2010 school year, in a special meeting, July 23.

School board discusses budget The Choctaw Plaindealer The Choctaw County School Board held a budget hearing July 16 at 9 a.m. to explain the budget to anyone present.

Paul Sims/SDN State Sen. Gary Jackson, R-French Camp, prepares to speak during Thursdaya s Power Breakfast at the Mississippi Horse Park outside Starkville.

Supes lease land from CCSD The Choctaw Plaindealer The Choctaw County Board of Supervisors has entered in to a land lease with the Choctaw County School Board to try to help bring broadband internet to the Town of French Camp.

SOS Hosemann guest speaker at Mayfest and Pioneer Day The Choctaw Plaindealer French Camp was full of hundreds of people, May 9, for the annual Mayfest and Pioneer Day.

Despite the weather's best efforts, football is still scheduled for Weir High School today.

French Camp celebrated its 200th anniversary with a bang on Saturday. The firing of a cannon at 11 a.m. on the grounds of the Drane Home by Stanford's Mississippi Battery, 1861-1865, and Civil War Reenactors officially kicked off the town's bicentennial activities.

French Camp had a weekend full of activities, kicking off a yearlong bicentennial celebration.

Mayfest, Pioneer Day to be held Saturday The Choctaw Plaindealer French Camp will be the place to be May 9 with two family oriented festivals-Mayfest and Pioneer Day-going on at the same time.

Come to French Camp at mileage marker 181 on the Natchez Trace, May 8th through May 10th, for Pioneer Day and the 200th Anniversary of its founding.

French Camp TEA Party held The Choctaw Plaindealer Seventy-five residents and supporters of French Camp protested enough taxes, Tax Day April 15, by supporting a TEA Party outside of French Camp Town Hall.

Saturday morning, quiet reigned around the homes lining Starkville's Colonel Muldrow Avenue, although remnants of Friday night parties - lawn chairs and strewn beer cans and bottles - could be seen in the yards of some.