Calhoun City News

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.

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.

The Chickasaw Journal showed well again in the annual Mississippi Press Association Better Newspapers Contest and awards ceremony held June 20 in Biloxi.

The Calhoun County School Board hired Calhoun City football coach Mike Ray and Bruce kindergarten teacher Paula Monaghan as the distirct's next school principals at its meeting Monday night.

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.

Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann and Attorney General Jim Hood have asked the claims against four Mississippi prepaid funeral policy providers to be consolidated.

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 Sales tax returns overall are down around the county entering the final two months of the fiscal year.

By JOEL McNEECE Dr. Jimmy Gage Dobbs and Doris Ferguson were among the honorees at Tuesday nighta s Calhoun City Chamber of Commerce Banquet at the Methodist Corner.

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 Lyn Parsons, Larry Bratton, and a lot of incumbents in Derma and Vardaman were all winners in Tuesdaya s board of aldermen races around the county.

By JOEL McNEECE Josh Warren is happiest when he's on a baseball field. "That's what I love most, by far," Warren said with a wide grin.

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.

The Calhoun County School Board tabled a proposal from Superintendent Mike Moore to create a new middle school principal position in Calhoun City at Thursday's recessed meeting in Pittsboro.

By JOEL McNEECE Ace Cannon, Godfather of Sax, will join his friends for a concert on the Calhoun City Square Saturday, May 30 to culminate the 3rd Annual Ace Cannon Festival.

By JOEL?McNEECE Memorial Day observers in Bruce and Calhoun City Monday morning were urged to a oenever forgeta and to live a a oegood lifea in honor of the many fallen American soldiers.

By JOEL McNEECE Bruce and Calhoun City will host their annual Memorial Day programs on the respective squares next Monday, May 25.

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 LISA?McNEECE A second man has been arrested and charged with grand larceny in the theft of saddles from a barn in Big Creek.

By JOEL?McNEECE Calhoun City Police Chief Benny Langford said his department will be setting up checkpoints around the city this weekend as part of the a oeClick It Or Ticketa program.