Vardaman News

We bake it for Christmas and Thanksgiving. We turn it into something sweet by adding marshmallows, nuts and maple syrup or if you're real down-home you might use sorghum molasses.

Richard and Melisa Ware of Houston are pleased to announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Kaddy Carol, to Michael Forrest Kendall, son of Michael and Kim Kendall of Vardaman.

Ruble Parker, 83, died Friday, May 3, 2013, at Trace Regional Hospital in Houston.

Barbara Jean Henley James, 61, died Tuesday, April 30, 2013, at her home. She was born Dec.

Scholarship recipients at Itawamba Community College for 2013 include Molly Kathleen May of Houston, ACT Regular Incentive, Special Achievement, Leadership; Mauricio Gracia of Vardaman, Leadership; and Desaray Hankins of Vardaman, Academic, Leadership.

Jay Waldrop, of Vance, Ala., on left, and Jeff Foster, of the Mississippi Valley Flywheel Association, talk details of the massive flywheel spinning at Joe Brigance Park last year.