Ripley News

Ongoing flea market WCDC topic The ongoing flea market in the Garan parking lot in Eupora was a topic of discussion at the last meeting of the Webster County Development Council.

They moved shortly thereafter, but I don't know where, nor do I know their names.

RIPLEY, Miss. - Tippah County Electric Power Association board members will be elected this year for the first time since the utility was created in 1938.

Ripley, MS - FAST FACTS: The January 2009 murder was Tippah's first since 2007 Little or no physical evidence at crime scene Family buys billboard to keep investigation alive Dennis.turner@wreg.com An entire Community is opening its wallets to keep a murder investigation alive.

Enrollment at Blue Mountain College has reached 500 for the first time in the school's 137-year history.

Ripley, MS - FAST FACTS: Coleman Brothers Station opens August 15th Prices Fall below $2 a Gallon at One Point Dennis.turner@wreg.com An old-fashioned gas war has broken out in North Mississippi with consumers getting a great break that puts money back in their wallets.

A Mississippi play is among the 200 shows that are part of the 13th New York International Fringe Festival in August.

The decision of the Tippah County Board of Supervisors agreeing in principle to a community college tuition guarantee program for all of the county's high school graduates, beginning in 2010, enriches the opportunity for every qualifying student to achieve their dreams and goals of higher educational attainment.

Dr. Rex Gandy, dean of the University of Southern Mississippi College of Science and Technology, has been selected the 2009 Administrator of the Year by the National Association of Educational Office Professionals.

The initial report put law officers in at least two counties on alert and ran up huge investigative bills, until the victim recanted.

A federal judge has dismissed a Ripley man's $2 million lawsuit against Tippah County, the city of Ripley and a law enforcement officers.