Assisting
hurricane evacuees
• Volunteers
focus on relief efforts
By SUE WATSON
Staff Writer
Marshall County
communities are getting ready to host south Mississippi
and New Orleans evacuees from Hurricane Katrina which
struck the Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana Gulf Coast
area August 29. Katrina has been described as the worst
natural disaster on record to strike U.S. homeland.
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• Thomas, others go south to help
By SUE WATSON
Staff Writer
Chancery Clerk Chuck
Thomas, Jim Summerlin of Holly Springs and Ray Nooner of
Tippah County spent four days in Biloxi, Gulfport and
Ocean Springs recovering, identifying and tagging bodies
found in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which hit
the Mississippi and Louisiana coasts last week.
Full Story
County students
score highest yet on state tests
The Subject Area Testing
Program scores (grades 9-12) and the Mississippi
Curriculum Test scores (grades 2-8) for the Marshall
County School District were released last week from state
embargo, and district officials were very pleased with
the results.
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County budget
hearing Monday
•
No new taxes
By SUE WATSON
Staff Writer
The Marshall County Board
of Supervisors has proposed a fiscal year 2005-06 budget
of about $21 million, according to Chuck Thomas, chancery
clerk. The budget will not require an increase in the
millage rate over last year.
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•
Sheriff’s report
County sends field kitchen to Hattiesburg
By SUE WATSON
Staff Writer
The Marshall County
Sheriff’s Department is sending an army surplus
field kitchen capable of serving between 1,000 and 1,500
at a time to Hattiesburg to help with hurricane relief
efforts, according to Sheriff Kenny Dickerson.
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