 Mike Dunagin, Calhoun City Fire Chief and owner/operator of York Greenhouse in Derma, has been maintaining the landscape on the Calhoun City Square for nearly 20 years. Photo by Joel McNeece
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Flags are at half staff at the Bruce National Guard Armory after the
death of 223rd guardsman James Harley "Flash" Gordon in an automobile
accident Wednesday afternoon.
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The Bruce Board of Aldermen agreed to look into a long-term lease with Bruce Community Living Center operator Doug Wright. Wright and BCLC Administrator Christiana Palmer met with the board
Tuesday night seeking to either purchase the building, or enter a
long-term lease.
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Calhoun City has been approved for a $400,000 CDBG grant for sewer
lagoon improvements, Mayor J.R. Denton said last night at the town’s
monthly board meeting.
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Vardaman board of aldermen agreed to a lease extension for Catholic Charities which would allow them to get grant monies. The original lease with the group for buildings on Main Street, was for 15 years. The new lease agreement is for 75 years.
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Retired Mississippi journalism educator and newspaper publisher S. Gale
Denley of Bruce died of complications from kidney disease on Friday,
Aug. 29, 2008 at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi in Oxford.
He was 72.
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“Hands-on” is the key phrase students are quick to point out when asked
why Calhoun County’s new Career and Technical Center is most exciting
to them. “I learn better when it’s hands-on,” said Charlie Easley of Calhoun City.
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The County Board of Supervisors continues to work on the next fiscal
year budget, but early indications are a hefty tax increase could be
coming over the next two years.
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The Calhoun County School Board plans to take some of its future meetings “on the road.” The board unanimously approved Monday night moving some of its future meetings to various school campuses in the county.
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“This was one of the toughest decisions I’ve ever had to make,” Howard Morgan said. “I think we needed to keep it all together. I’ve thought
about it a lot and I couldn’t come to a decision to go anywhere else.”
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Calhoun County Sheriff’s Department has recovered a tractor that was stolen in Montgomery County nearly two months ago.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority on Wednesday approved its largest
electric rate increase in more than 30 years, citing skyrocketing fuel
costs and a three-year drought that has sharply reduced its ability to
generate cheap hydroelectric power.
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Ten years ago, Bernard Sykes was heralded as one of the state’s “Dandy Dozen” football players. The dominating 6’2” 250 pound DE/LB verbally committed to Ole Miss
before ultimately attending Northwest Community College on a football
scholarship. He helped lead the Rangers to a national championship in
1999, but that’s when the good times ended. Sykes spent the next eight years in prison on an armed robbery charge.
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Enrollment for Calhoun County Schools is down 54 students thus far this
school year to 2,528. Bruce and Vardaman have experienced the
decreases, while Calhoun City is up slightly.
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Calhoun City Mayor J.R. Denton has been appointed to the Mississippi
Municipal League’s Board of Directors. The MML is a private association
representing 288 member municipalities throughout the state.
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Vardaman aldermen voted to buy a mini-truck for the town's water department in a recess meeting of the board Monday night. Aldermen accepted the quote from James May of Bruce for the 1995 Hijet
mini truck for $4,750 and voted to amend the budget for the purchase.
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