Poplarville News

GAUTIER A restroom facility in the city's park, which was on the council's Nov. 3 agenda but stalled out in that meeting, was approved in a special meeting Tuesday.

Investigation into reports of several county burglaries has led to the arrest of five suspects.

Forty-four Jackson County prisoners were scheduled to be transferred to the Pearl River County jail late Monday or early Tuesday, said Sheriff David Allison, who asked supervisors on Monday to sign a contract with Jackson County in connection with the transfer.

County Farm Road remains closed this morning from I-10 to Landon Road after an accident that left a Poplarville man dead.

Court sets Jan. 13 as date for Penton to enter plea The date for Pearl River County school superintendent Dennis E. Penton to enter a plea in connection with a misdemeanor charge of failure to report a crime on school property has been set in Justice Court on Wednesday, Jan.

Martin T. Smith named Poplarville Citizen of the Year By DAVID A. FARRELL/Item Staff Writer POPLARVILLE - Former State Sen.

Pearl River Community College is moving forward on rebuilding facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina after four years of "moving in quicksand." Officials settled with Zurich Insurance Co.

Cuts in legislative funding to the South Mississippi Regional Center have forced the organization to consolidate services in Pearl River County by closing its recycling program in Picayune, one of the few recycling programs it has.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Mississippi native Natasha Trethewey will deliver the opening address Thursday for the 2009 Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium at Mississippi University for Women.

POPLARVILLE - Graveside services are 10 a.m. Wednesday at New Hope Cemetery for Emma Mary Cooper, 86, of Poplarville, who died Oct.

Absentee voting is currently available for the election of a new school board member for the Pearl River County School District.

Saying he believes citizens are "fed up with professional politicians," Pearl River County supervisor Hudson Holliday said on Wednesday he will run for governor of Mississippias a Republican.

Poplarville won the Class 4A Slow Pitch Softball title, beating Newton County 7-2 and 8-4 on Saturday in Jackson.

Pearl River County supervisors continued on Monday exploring ways to best utilize $8.9 million in a federal FEMA grant to construct stand-alone storm shelters here, and mentioned several possibilities of combining the funds with local governmentally proposed construction projects to spread out back-end maintenance costs, which the county will have ...

Poplarville High School's 2008 Homecoming Court is, from left, sitting: Senior Maids: Raven Pernell, Sierra Luke, Kolyn Dossett, Carmelita Barrymore and Bridget Thrash; standing: sophomore McKenna Scroggs, juniors Brittany Routzahn, Raven Nightengale and Asa Goins, sophomore Breanna Deem and freshman Hannah Nix.

The actions of a girl that saved the life of a three year-old boy did not go unnoticed by the Pearl River County Sheriff's Department.

The school board for the Poplarville Special Municipal Separate School District meets at 7 p.m. Monday in the library of the Upper Elementary School.

Dr. Wayne McLaurin, a professor at the Mississippi State University's Coastal Research Extension Center, said that a new variety of crepe myrtle, developed during seven years of research at the Poplarville Experiment Station, will be available in the Spring.

The 36th Annual Ornamental Horticulture Field Day will be today at the South Mississippi Branch Experiment Station in Poplarville.

Pearl River County Emergency Management Director Danny Manly on Monday told supervisors he is continuing to hunt for ways to morph three approved stand-alone storm shelters, authorized by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, into multi-purpose structures that will save the county money by spreading out maintenace costs and combining the ...