McAdams News

Jim Wood has been hired as the new fast-pitch softball coach at Ethel High School.

After being added to the Attala County School Board's agenda Monday night, school board member Mack Willie Clark got his opportunity to say his piece about needed structural improvements at McAdams High School.

The Attala County School Board approved to purchase the Read 180 and Achieve3000 programs for the district after hearing from Achieve3000 District Coordinator and seventh and eighth grade English teacher Velvet Adcock during the Monday night meeting in the Attala County Courthouse.

A Holmes County man wanted in a Lexington shooting turned himself into authorities early this morning, officials said.

April 23, 1959 * The church building of St. Matthews Episcopal Mission in Kosciusko, will be dedicated by the Right Reverend Duncan M. Gray, Bishop of Mississippi, on Friday night, May 1, at 7:30 according to a spokesman for the church.

Kosciusko will have another feather in its cap on Friday afternoon as native son, Charlie Musselwhite's, an internationally known blues harmonica specialist, Mississippi Blues Trail Marker is unveiled on the northside of the historic Downtown Square.

The Attala County School District Office of Federal Programs invites all parents with children who attend McAdams High School, Ethel High School, Greenlee Elementary School and Long Creek Elementary School and members of the community to attend a parent meeting.

The Attala County Sheriff's Department apprehended a Sallis man on drug charges Wednesday, April 15, on the campus of McAdams High School.

April 9, 1959 Lonnie Braswell, contractor and former school teacher, placed his name in The Star-Herald's growing candidate column last week as a candidate for the important office of sheriff.

On Saturday, January 31, 2009, the Kosciusko Junior High Cheerleaders hosted the "2009 Beauty Review" which was held at the KJHS Auditorium.

School uniforms were at the forefront of Attala County School Board member Mack Willie Clark's agenda for the school board meeting Monday night.

The Oprah Winfrey Boys & Girls Club Youth of the Year Melanie Newell spoke about community support for the club to the Attala County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday morning.

The students of Attala County will not be wearing uniforms to school. The Attala County School board voted 3-to-2 on the uniform issue at their Monday night meeting after hearing from faculty, parents, ...

The Attala County Sheriff's Department is investigating a vandalism case at McAdams High School.

Jan. 8, 1959 The "Walking Penny" project of the Ethel Science Club, directed by Mrs.

Dec. 18, 1958 An allotment of $26,000 has been approved by the State Educational Finance Commission for the construction of a new vocational agriculture school building for the McAdams high school attendance ...