Calhoun City News

By JOEL McNEECE Every Sunday morning, Ginger Cook and her three children get the boost they need for the week ahead - they get to talk to their husband and father.

By JOEL McNEECE The board of supervisors approved upgrades to the phone system, computers and software at the sheriff's department during a pair of lengthy meetings last Friday and Monday.

A Houston man was airlifted to the North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo for injuries sustained in a traffic accident Wednesday morning.

By LISA McNEECE Derma Board of Alderman hired a new police chief and set a special election for two resigning aldermen at the regular meeting of the board last night.

By JO ANN DENLEY Calhoun City Board of Aldermen set a meeting with the Chamber of Commerce Board for next Tuesday night to discuss the chamber renting part of the newly renovated south portion of City Hall.

Saltillo fifth-grader wins NMMC Hospice art contest TUPELO - Dylan Allen, a fifth-grader at Saltillo Elementary School, recently won an art contest sponsored by North Mississippi Medical Center Hospice.

By JOEL McNEECE Calhoun City Police Chief Benny Langford said his department will increase its efforts in February to collect all outstanding fines owed to the city.

By JOEL McNEECE U.S. Rep. Alan Nunnelee said North Mississippi is "perfectly poised for economic growth" while speaking at the annual Calhoun Economic Development Association banquet in Calhoun City last week.

Oxford's boys powerlifting team got its season off to a good start with six lifters finishing in the top three at the Wildcat Invitational Meet in Calhoun City.

By JOEL McNEECE Billy McCord was re-elected president and Danny Harrelson vice-president of the Calhoun County School Board for 2012 at Monday's meeting in Pittsboro.

By JOEL McNEECE A three-car accident on Hwy. 9 just south of Calhoun City kept the road blocked for not quite an hour Monday morning.

North Mississippi Medical Center Hospice Program is seeking volunteers in Calhoun City who would like to participate in a Hospice volunteer program.

By JOEL McNEECE Sister Judy Sinnwell told the Bruce Chamber of Commerce Monday that more than 34 tons of garbage have been recycled since the countywide recycling program was implemented in 2009.

HOUSTON, Miss. -- A Calhoun County woman has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the stabbing death of a man last year.

By JOEL McNEECE Alanna Norwood, 21, of Calhoun City, was sentenced to 20 years Tuesday for the Jan.

The University of Mississippi has selected 154 students to be inducted into the 2011-2012 class of Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.

Dr. Guy Farmer, 74, longtime chief of staff at Calhoun Health Services and community leader in Calhoun City, died Thursday night at Sanctuary Hospice House in Tupelo after a lengthy battle with cancer.

Veterans were honored during last Saturday's Dr. martin Luther King, Jr. Banquet in Pittsboro with a marching demonstration by some of Mary Cole's students from Calhoun City.

An accident last Friday on Hwy. 9 in Pontotoc County involving a Calhoun City woman and child resulting in a fatality remains under investigation by the Mississippi Highway Patrol.

The Mississippi Highway Patrol continues to investigate its second fatality recorded in 2012.