Vardaman News

By JOEL McNEECE A Bruce woman was killed Wednesday night in a one-vehicle car accident on East Clay Street.

By LISA McNEECE Four men were arrested and others are being sought on forgery charges after a manhunt Monday afternoon.

Vardaman High School football game against Biggersville has been moved to Saturday at 7 p.m. due to weather.

By JOEL McNEECE The Calhoun City Chamber announced plans for several upcoming community events and listened to a presentation by Norman Griffin, who is putting in a solar power business in the old Kellwood store building.

By JOEL McNEECE Several Calhoun County students were recently honored for performing at the highest levels on last year's state tests.

By JOEL McNEECE Randall Langford, who farms with James Chrestman and Carter Edmondson, sat high on his tractor looking out over the rain-soaked field wondering how much of this year's sweet potato crop could be saved.

Approaching severe weather is creating several weather warnings in Calhoun County as well as threatening tonight's football games in Calhoun City and Vardaman.

By LISA McNEECE Vardaman Board of Aldermen unanimously agreed on a junk car ordinance for the town at the regular meeting of the board last night.

By JOEL McNEECE The Calhoun County School District was hit with a $561,000 budget cut from the state last week.

By JOEL McNEECE Terry Fales, director of the Calhoun Economic Development Association , updated Bruce Chamber members on the industrial prospects for the future in the county at Monday's chamber meeting.

The fall Flywheel Festival is closing in with festivities set to begin Friday, Sept.

By JOEL McNEECE Sales tax returns in July, the start of the new fiscal year, were up in Bruce and Vardaman compared to 2008.

By JOEL McNEECE There were no serious injuries, at least known injuries, following two wrecks in the Vardaman area last Sunday.

By LISA McNEECE A Vardaman man is dead and four others injured after a two-car accident Sunday late afternoon.

Fire departments from Calhoun City, Derma, Vardaman and Big Creek were on hand to battle a large blaze that consumed a Calhoun City restaurant Monday morning.

Sales taxes slid in July, the first month of the fiscal year, in eight of the 12 Twin County-area municipalities.

W e know there's no place quite like the Southand this month's Mississippi-born chef admits it took seeing the world to appreciate plump local blackberries, pecans from just down the road, the sweet potatoes of tiny Vardaman , and the comfort of a Southern accent.

By JOEL McNEECE The Calhoun County School Board asked Superintendent Mike Moore to study the number of teacher assistants in the district and make sure they are distributed appropriately among the schools.

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By JOEL McNEECE Calhoun County Schoola s Testing Coordinator Judy Carnaggio said Calhoun a oecompared favorably with state levelsa on the recently released state test scores from last year.