Ellisville News

The aunt of a student accused of making a bomb threat that alert 11 government agencies to his school says it was a fart joke misinterpreted.

ELLISVILLE, Miss. -- A 19-year-old Jones County Junior College student has been arrested for allegedly writing a note claiming there was a bomb on campus.

Linda Long rings up a customer at Bass Pecan Co. in Lumberton. After months of declining diversions, Lumberton's recent check of $17,360 was 17.7 percent more than the $14,754 it collected in December 2010.

Chancellor previously was a grant writer for the sheriff's department. He said he has been involved with Powers Volunteer Fire Department since 1988.

A new plant being built by GE Aviation in Ellisville, MS should be finished by the end of 2012, and fully operational in 2013, according to the company's media relations manager.

ELLISVILLE, Miss. -- The Economic Development Authority of Jones County lists Ellisville State School as the county's third largest employer.

As I sit down to write this first column in a wrap-up series of the six-month, 17-country,... ELLISVILLE, Miss.

As I sit down to write this first column in a wrap-up series of the six-month, 17-country,... ELLISVILLE - Jones County Junior College offers the GED Test at the Ronald Whitehead Advanced Technology Center in Ellisville.

ELLISVILLE - The Economic Development Authority of Jones County lists Ellisville State School as the county's third largest employer.With more than 1,500 on its employment roster, the Ellisville-based health care facility falls behind only Howard Industries and South Central Regional Medical Center as the county's top employer.

Jones County Junior College's recent grand opening of a new Leakesville center was a historic milestone for the two-year institution.

William Carey's Rod Little said he could tell he was going to have a good day before Saturday's... Friends of the Ellisville Public Library will sponsor Ginny Wilson Cruz, an Ellisville native and children's author, at 4 p.m. Thursday at the Ellisville Library.