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Thursday, May 17, 2012
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Stagnant bond bill affects county

By SUE WATSON
Staff Writer

About $1.3 million in the 2011 Legislative year bond bill, needed to provide sewer and related infrastructure upgrades in the northern portion of Marshall County, is, in effect, still locked down.

Gary Anderson, consultant to the board of supervisors, said the failure of the Legislature to pass a bond bill and the failure of the county to get language into a bill that was approved last year leaves the search for funds to build a sewer system in the Highway 72/Cayce Road area up in the air another year.

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Congressman visits CFI

By SUE WATSON
Staff Writer

Photo by Sue Watson

Boyce DeLashmit (center) gives Alan Nunnelee (right) and the congressman’s field representative, Walter Starr, a tour of the facilities.

U.S. Rep. Alan Nunnelee (R) and his wife Tori toured Contract Fabricators Inc. recently to see the gigantic oil and coal refinery vessels that are being manufactured in Holly Springs.

Boyce DeLashmit, president, sat with the Nunnelees to spell out what he needs Congress to do and then they toured the facilities.

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Rural post offices may stay

By SUE WATSON
Staff Writer

A systemwide plan to close 3,700 mostly rural post offices, including the one in Waterford, has stalled at least temporarily.

Waterford was included last year in a study of how the community sees the post office as needed.

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Volunteers boost city with flowers

By SUE WATSON
Staff Writer

Main Street is back at it again this year, weeding old flower beds and getting them ready for new flowers.

Gwen Wyatt, chairman of the Holly Springs Main Street design committee, said the group continues to work to beautify the city and hopes to expand its efforts to draw attention to the city with flowers and shrubs. The committee hopes to get money to plant flowers in the medians at Highway 78, she said.

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Clydesdale gives to St. Jude

By SUE WATSON
Staff Writer

The 18-year-old Clydesdale Store, begun by Brenda and Ronnie Luther to provide Christmas gifts for needy families, is dissolving this year.

Store representatives recently presented a check to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., the final recipient of the Clydesdale funds from the organization.

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Farmers Market returns Memorial Day weekend

The Holly Springs Main Street is sponsoring a Saturday Farmers Market on the square in downtown Holly Springs again this year, according to Lisa Liddy with the Main Street Farmers Market Committee.

It begins Memorial Day weekend and continues every Saturday thereafter until further notice.

All vendors have been invited to return from last year’s lineup and other vendors are being added, she said. Jody James will provide live entertainment most Saturdays with the market operating from 7 a.m. until noon.

For more information, contact Liddy at 662-274-4083 or Lemon Phelps at the Marshall County Extension office, 662-252-3541.

Correction

In an article that ran in last week’s issue entitled “Asset mapping team covers city sites,” a website was incorrectly given. To visit the MDA asset mapping website visit www.assetmap.mississippi.org.



Photos by Sue Watson Successful health fair The 12th annual Eddie L. Smith Community Health Fair was held May 10 at the Holly Springs Multi-Purpose Building. (Clockwise, from top left) Luberta Smith, wife of the late mayor Eddie L. Smith, attends the health fair named in honor of her husband. Rev. Denise Anders-Modest gets a blood pressure check from LaKeisha Manning with Alliance HealthCare System, the sponsor of the health fair. Gail Houck (right) with Christopher’s Personal Care Home in Holly Springs shows an album to Charles and Barbara Alexander.

MDEQ awards grant to county

The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality has awarded Marshall County a solid waste assistance grant of $17,124 that will be used by the county to clean up illegal dump sites and for employment assistance for a local solid waste enforcement officer.

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