French Camp News

Supes lease land from CCSD The Choctaw Plaindealer The Choctaw County Board of Supervisors has entered in to a land lease with the Choctaw County School Board to try to help bring broadband internet to the Town of French Camp.

SOS Hosemann guest speaker at Mayfest and Pioneer Day The Choctaw Plaindealer French Camp was full of hundreds of people, May 9, for the annual Mayfest and Pioneer Day.

Despite the weather's best efforts, football is still scheduled for Weir High School today.

French Camp celebrated its 200th anniversary with a bang on Saturday. The firing of a cannon at 11 a.m. on the grounds of the Drane Home by Stanford's Mississippi Battery, 1861-1865, and Civil War Reenactors officially kicked off the town's bicentennial activities.

French Camp had a weekend full of activities, kicking off a yearlong bicentennial celebration.

Mayfest, Pioneer Day to be held Saturday The Choctaw Plaindealer French Camp will be the place to be May 9 with two family oriented festivals-Mayfest and Pioneer Day-going on at the same time.

Come to French Camp at mileage marker 181 on the Natchez Trace, May 8th through May 10th, for Pioneer Day and the 200th Anniversary of its founding.

French Camp TEA Party held The Choctaw Plaindealer Seventy-five residents and supporters of French Camp protested enough taxes, Tax Day April 15, by supporting a TEA Party outside of French Camp Town Hall.

Saturday morning, quiet reigned around the homes lining Starkville's Colonel Muldrow Avenue, although remnants of Friday night parties - lawn chairs and strewn beer cans and bottles - could be seen in the yards of some.

French Camp is planning a weekend full of activities for May 8 - 10, kicking off a yearlong bicentennial celebration.

It was a routine assignment to do a story on a local restaurant featured in a national magazine.

The Choctaw Plaindealer Any interested person wishing to run as a candidate for mayor or alderperson in the Town of Ackerman, Town of French Camp or Town of Weir have until March 6 at 5 p.m. to file qualifying ...

The Choctaw Plaindealer The Choctaw County School Board discussed many topics including school bus routes, fishing and hunting leases and personnel matters.

The Choctaw Plaindealer The Choctaw County Board of Supervisors discussed a variety of topics in their Feb.

The Choctaw Plaindealer The Choctaw County Board of Supervisors are helping students at Weir Elementary School start recycling by donating four garbage cans.

The Choctaw Plaindealer The long awaited memorial is now in place in French Camp to honor the late French Camp Chief Anthony Lucas.

The Choctaw Plaindealer Anyone wishing to see the "True Meaning of Christmas" may travel to French Camp's Historic District to view their illuminated display drive through.

The Choctaw Plaindealer The Choctaw County School Board held an audience to discuss absences, exemptions and to hear a request to change the name of Ackerman Elementary School.

The Choctaw Plaindealer The Choctaw County Board of Supervisors are still discussing whether or not to join the North Mississippi EMS organization that will offer training courses to all Choctaw County ...

An astronomer's theories of what the Guiding Star of Bethlehem could have been. Join James Hill, from Rainwater Observatory in French Camp, MS, for holiday snacks, hot chocolate and a presentation at 5:30 on ...