Calhoun County News

By JOEL McNEECE Members of the 858th National Guard Unit based in Calhoun City and their families will be honored Thursday, July 2 with a countywide "picnic" at the Calhoun City football field beginning at 5 p.m. The soldiers are scheduled to be deployed to Iraq on July 17.

By JOEL McNEECE Calhoun County supervisors approved improvements tot he Calhoun County airport and listened to a new life insurance proposal for county employees at a meeting Thursday morning in Pittsboro.

By JOEL McNEECE Preparations are well underway for the 2009 Calhoun County Fair July 27 - " August 1. Exhibits books are currently available at the Extension Office in Pittsboro and libraries at Bruce, Calhoun City and Vardaman.

JACKSON - Five county jails cannot house state inmates until they make some improvements.

The Calhoun County Journal earned eight awards, including four first place, in the Mississippi Press Association's Better Newspaper Contest at the association's 143rd annual convention last week in Biloxi.

Bust yields over two pounds of marijuana Bust yields over two pounds of marijuana CSO Deputy Lee Womack and his K9 partner, Max, are shown with marijuana, scales and cash recovered in a bust last week.

By JOEL?McNEECE Cheyenne Thomas, 23, was sweeping fresh cut grass off a sidewalk on South McSweyne Street in Bruce Monday as co-workers continued to mow down the weeds in the near 100-degree heat.

By JOEL McNEECE Thunderstorms roared through Calhoun County much of the weekend uprooting trees, downing power lines and causing the postponement of the countya s Relay For Life.

By JOEL?McNEECE Calhoun City Board of Aldermen raised alderman salaries from $200 per month to $300, the first increase in nine years,A at their regular meeting last night at city hall.

By JOEL McNEECE The Calhoun County School Board plans to add a middle school principal position in Calhoun City at a recessed meeting Thursday, May 28 in Pittsboro.

By JOEL?McNEECE Calhoun County voters will return to the polls next Tuesday, June 2 to make selections in four alderman races in four towns.

By JOEL?McNEECE Faye Spratlin will retire this December as city clerk in Calhoun City after 23 years on the job.

The idea for a Calhoun County plant swap originated with Connie Caviness of Calhoun City after a conversation between her and Ann King of Bruce when they agreed to exchange some irises.

By JOEL?McNEECE The Calhoun County School Board heard in no uncertain terms just how challenging the new accountability model will be for the school district in the coming years.

A fugitive from Anniston was captured in Monroe County, Mississippi, over the weekend.

By JOEL?McNEECE Jay Moon, president of the Mississippi Manufacturers Association, told a Calhoun Economic Development Association audience that a oeworkforce developmenta is most critical for a strong economy.

On April 11, a special service with over 60 attending from Calhoun County, Clarksdale, Crystal Springs, andA South Carolina, gathered at Benela Cemetery to honor three Calhoun Confederate soldiers who died during the War for Southern Independence--brothers Private Thomas N. Taylor, Co.

Two deceased Calhoun County Rotarians and another from Southaven were honored with first ever District Hero awards at the annual District Rotary convention in Memphis this past weekend.

You might know that the Calhoun County Health Department is a good place to get your child immunized, receive your seasonal flu shot and obtain your blood tests for a marriage license, but you may not be aware of just how much your community depends on other, perhaps lesser-known services.

The memory of S. Gale Denley, former publisher of the Calhoun County Journal in Bruce and an Ole Miss professor, was honored with a plaque for his commitment to a oeFriends of the Regional Medical Center at Memphis a Thursday at the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics.