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Training time for Toyota
• Manufacturing executives meet in Holly Springs By SUE WATSON Holly Springs was the choice last week for a gathering of manufacturing and education experts who want to partner with Toyota for training of skilled workers in North Mississippi’s budding heavy manufacturing industry.
Grant funds $19,000 in equipment By BARRY BURLESON Holly Springs Fire Department rescue workers have to extricate victims from vehicle wreckage about 70 times a year. City seeks Main Street By SUE WATSON The Holly Springs Board of Aldermen approved a resolution to apply for Main Street designation with the Mississippi Main Street Association at the July 17 meeting. Property owners curious about I-69 By SUE WATSON District 3 Supervisor Keith Taylor reported at the July 16 board meeting that individuals in his district have begun to ask for a contact number to call regarding I-69. Postal Service customers see new rules A new Postal Service rule goes into effect next week for packages and envelopes that weigh more than 13 ounces, if they’re being mailed with only stamps as postage at a location other than a Post Office retail service counter.
Ag study group visits Marshall County By SUE WATSON Members with the 2007 Saluda County, S.C., Soil and Water Conservation District Ag Study Tour visited Walter Place Estate, Cottages and Gardens and Fitch Farms/Galena Plantation Thursday as part of their annual tour. Holly Springs firemen respond to house fires The Holly Springs Fire Department worked three structure fires over the week ending July 24, according to assistant fire chief Rodney Crane. A house at Red Banks on Cunningham Road and a house in Benton County on Becks Springs Road were a total loss, he said. A third house fire on West College Street in Holly Springs caused some damage but the structure was saved, he said. Firefighters responded to 12 medical assistance calls, two car fires, one motor vehicle accident and one smoke investigation as well over the week ending July 24. The Holly Springs Fire Department will hold Fun Day in August with the time to be announced, Crane said. The annual event is used to educate children and parents about fire safety. Two die in accident Two men from the Chulahoma address area died Monday in a single-vehicle roll-over accident on Highway 78 one mile east of the county line in Byhalia, according to Marshall County Coroner John Garrison. The accident took place at the 13 mile marker around 2:15 a.m. July 23, he said. Garrison received the call to the scene at 2:52 a.m. Both men were ejected when the vehicle went off the road into the median, overturned several times and landed in the west-bound lane, he said. Dead at the scene were Lazarins Thompson, 20, and Preston Sanderson, 18, both of the Chulahoma community, he said. |
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