Oktibbeha County News

By BRIAN HAWKINS This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Locals interested in becoming more engaged and in taking on a leadership role in the community have just over a week and a half to submit applications for the sixth class for Oktibbeha County's leadership development program.

Shea Staskowski/SDN New East Oktibbeha County Elementary School principal Yolanda McGee assists Carneisha Brandy, 8, with her Reading First program computer exercise.

The Oktibbeha County Sheriff's Department soon will begin using some new, state-of-the-art fingerprinting technology in an effort to improve its outdated system.

By BRIAN HAWKINS This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it For Parker Wiseman, the past month has been a whirlwind.

Two new cases of the H1N1 virus were reported Tuesday in Oktibbeha County, which brings the total to three after another was reported June 26.

By KELLY DANIELS This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it It took the death of his dog to help Bill Chapman realize something had to be in place to slow down speeding drivers on Old Mayhew Road.

Submitted photo/SDN Left, this dog was one of nine pit bull terriers found by Starkville animal control officers Rich McKee and Sarah Hankins at an unspecified home in the area when they responded to a call from a concerned citizen a week ago today.

By SHEA STASKOWSKI This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it After 11 years as the assistant superintendent of the Oktibbeha County School District, Beverly Kemp is retiring, leaving Supt.

Compiled by GWEN SISSON This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Today is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate those wonderful men who teach fishing, bicycle riding and other important lessons in life.

A retirement party in Rogersa honor is being held from 2 to 4 p.m. today at Building B at the Bost Extension Center on the MSU campus.

As a driver traveling west on Highway 82 exits onto Airport Road near the Golden Triangle Regional Airport, he immediately encounters miles of professionally manicured trees, shrubs and flowers lining the four-lane road.

Paul Sims/SDN Michael K. Clayborne, the president of the CREATE Foundation, provides details on the organization to Starkville Rotarians Monday.

Lowndes and its surrounding counties soon may be partnering to help fund the construction of a nursing school facility at East Mississippi Community College, members of the Lowndes County Board of Supervisors announced during a Monday meeting.

Submitted photo/SDN Above, local board members and staff with the Oktibbeha County chapter of the American Red Cross met briefly with the command staff of the Mississippi National Guarda s 2nd-114th Strike Battalion following a farewell ceremony at Camp Shelby for the 2nd-114th and the other units within the 155th Brigade Combat Team deploying to ...

In 1954, Lewis Roberson moved here to work as a janitor at Mississippi State University.

Officials in Oktibbeha County are set to repair a deteriorating section of the Oktibbeha County Lake levee in coming weeks.

The train cars line the tracks outside of Starkville for miles on each side. Many are rusted and covered with graffiti.

Lawyers for a woman sentenced to die for killing her estranged husband during an attempted robbery have filed a 217-page appeal of her capital murder conviction.

Election officials in Starkville Thursday held a recount of the general election results from Ward 2, but when all was said and done, the vote totals remained the same.

Kelly Daniels/SDN Ryan Gray presents a plan for a new sewer district in eastern Oktibbeha County to the Board of Supervisors.