Pontotoc News

ACROSS MISSISSIPPI a ' From the hills of Northeast Mississippi to the sugar-white beaches of the Gulf Coast, residents from across the state are invited to bring their most comfortable shoes and go walking.

PONTOTOC, Miss. - Josh West has one mission, and it's nothing complicated. "We want more and better jobs," said West, the regional economic director for Union and Pontotoc counties.

By JOEL McNEECE Calhoun County recorded its lowest unemployment rate in nearly a year in September, according to the Mississippi Department of Employment Security.

Lauren Rogers Museum of Art will offer an oil painting workshop by artist Dot Courson for beginning to intermediate level painters on October 15 - 17 in the Carriage House Studio.

OXFORD - Some might say Billy Ray Autry lost both his sons last week when one of them killed the other in dramatic standoff in an upscale Oxford subdivision.

There's nothing subtle about the sales pitch by abortion opponents who are gathering signatures at the Colorado State Fair for a ballot measure that would give legal rights to fertilized embryos.

After some confusion last week, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker has been confirmed for the Jones Co.

Some Methodists in Mississippi remain aggrieved over the testimony of a same-sex couple during a June worship service, raising worries that it will drive some members from the denomination.

Haley Stewart sat contemplating questions she had been asked by Miss Hospitality judges and writing in blue ink in a notebook.

Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics agents, along with Pontotoc deputies and police officers, over the weekend arrested a local woman wanted for attempted burglary by Illinois authorities for fraudulently obtaining prescriptions, according to MBN Director Marshall Fisher.

A Pontotoc woman wanted by Illinois authorities on attempted burglary charges was arrested this weekend for for allegedly fraudulently obtaining prescriptions in Mississippi, according to the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, the arresting agency.

TUPELO - The Post 24 Hub City Bombers are one win away from a Senior American Legion baseball state championship.

Former Jackson Police Chief Robert Moore, who served during Mayor Harvey Johnson's last administration, said today he is not a candidate for the position of police chief.

ATEL Ventures, a provider of secured financing to growth companies, has extended a significant asset-backed financing facility to waste-to-fuels cleantech company, Enerkem.

The decision of the Tippah County Board of Supervisors agreeing in principle to a community college tuition guarantee program for all of the county's high school graduates, beginning in 2010, enriches the opportunity for every qualifying student to achieve their dreams and goals of higher educational attainment.

Mississippi State University research and Extension experts will provide information and demonstrations about agronomic research activities July 14 when the Pontotoc Ridge-Flatwoods Branch Experiment Station hosts its annual Research and Demonstration Tour.

Last week marked the dawn of Seafood Junction in Oxford and was met with great fervor on behalf of sea cuisine junkies and loyal patrons.

Two years ago, if you asked me where I would be in the great state of Mississippi - I would have said Pontotoc.

Agents of the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics continued to round up suspects as they completed their investigations into Mississippi's largest-ever methamphetamine ring.

The Moore County Board of Education has given Superin-tendent Susan Purser a one-year extension on her contract.