Poplarville News

Local businesses and government offices announced closing for the Thanksgiving Holidays.

The Justice Department today announced an agreement with the city of Poplarville to improve access for persons with disabilities to its programs, services, activities and facilities.

The Pearl River Community College Alumni Association will host a Christmas Extravaganza fundraiser Dec.

The Pearl River Community College Alumni Association will host a Christmas Extravaganza fundraiser from 5-9 p.m. Dec.

POPLARVILLE -- Pearl River Community College will offer a free workshop next month for people with machine shop experience.

Dr. James M. Riser said on Wednesday that about 500 school students here were vaccinated on Monday and Tuesday by health care officials, and that an additional round of vaccinations is planned for Dec.

The Crosby Arboretum held its annual Heritage Festival this past weekend. Friday was set aside for children, while the events on Saturday were for the whole family.

The City of Picayune is considering its options for upgrading water infrastructure.

It was standing room only at Congressman Gene Taylor's town hall meeting in Poplarville on Friday.

Dr. James M. Riser of Riser Medical Associates of Picayune on Wednesday said that swine flu shots will be given to Poplarville students on Monday and Tuesday, that the shots are safe and that health officials are seeking to vaccinate 80 percent of the 2,194 Poplarville students on those two days.

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.