Pelahatchie News

Rankin County offices and Brandon, Florence, Flowood, Pearl, Pelahatchie and Richland city offices will be closed Thursday and Friday.

Ashtrays atop eatery tables and inside lobbies may go the way of the spittoon in Brandon if the city's aldermen pass smoke-free legislation now under consideration.

I20 Eastbound is shut down at Pelahatchie due to an accident involving an overturned 18-wheeler. MDOT reports the closure could last 3-4 hours.

All lanes of I-20 eastbound at Pelahatchie are now open to through traffic, according to the Mississippi Department of Transportation.

State highway officials have reopened one lane of Interstate 20 eastbound at Pelahatchie in Rankin County on Tuesday after a tractor-trailer rig overturned.

With a $1.8 million makeover now under way, the buzz of saws and roar of other machinery radiate from Pelahatchie's downtown.

Visitors to the South Mississippi Fair Friday and Saturday will also get a chance to experience "the most dangerous sport on dirt." Bull Madness will host the Eastern Circuit Finals at 7 p.m. each night at the Magnolia Center, 1457 Ellisville Blvd.

Pelahatchie Bay Trading Post owner Roy P. Herrington called Rankin County supervisors' decision to allow Sunday sales of beer in the Ross Barnett Reservoir area a good one.

'Tis fast approaching the very witching time of October, where revelers search for candy or a good dose of horror.

An amendment in the county's beer ordinance will allow Sunday sales of the beverage in the Ross Barnett Reservoir-area. Per request of the Pearl River Valley Water Supply District, the Rankin County Board of Supervisors approved a measure this morning legalizing sale of beer on Sunday, prohibited in unincorporated Rankin County.

Rankin supervisors are scheduled to vote on a measure Thursday that, if passed, would allow Ross Barnett Reservoir-area stores to sell beer on Sundays.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Nunnally of Petal announce the engagement of their daughter, Emily Lauren Nunnally, to Jeffrey Bryant Stewart of Brandon.

An ordinance approved by Pelahatchie leaders limits the location and look of cellular phone towers and requires that any tower not being used to be moved.

The 12th annual Brandon Craft Fair will be held from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 3 at Nativity Lutheran Church in Brandon.

Plans for a new fire station in the Monterey area are part of a new $125 million budget Rankin County officials approved Tuesday.

The Board of Supervisors approved last week a contract to resurface 10 roads and elected new officers, plus the nod was given to the $125 budget.

Mississippi-rooted singer-songwriter Mac McAnally brings a solo show to Hal & Mal's in Jackson, in support of his new CD, Down by the River.

On the vine for Pelahatchie's 29th annual Muscadine Jubilee is good tunes and food, and of course, the Grape Stomp.

A request to help a friend led Rita Mashburn down a colorful and tasty muscadine road.

Stylish renovations will modernize focal buildings in downtown Pelahatchie, but none of the renovations will compromise the small town spirit, officials say.