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Thursday, April 14, 2011
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City plans to replace cast iron pipe

By SUE WATSON
Staff Writer

The city received a plan from the Holly Springs Utility Department to replace 32 miles of cast iron gas pipe in the central part of downtown at a price tag of about $6.5 million.

Engineers Larry Britt and Mike Bridges presented their study of the total system and how they recommend to go about replacing the cast iron pipe, much laid in the central part of the city beginning in about 1947 and on through the 1960s. Bridges said carbon steel pipe was used from then until the 1980s when plastic gaslines were introduced. Plastic pipe holds up better and does not corrode, he said.

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Successful Pilgrimage
• ‘Screen on Green’ among biggest hits

By SUE WATSON
Staff Writer

Photo By Sue Watson

(From left) Peggy McBeth, Frances DeLashmit and Dorothy Herron are dressed in their Pilgrimage attire for the annual event in Holly Springs. They are pictured during opening ceremonies at Montrose.

Pilgrimage events were diversified this year and the Holly Springs Garden Club loved every minute of it.

Attendance was about neck and neck with last year, according to Lisa Childers, co-chair of ticket sales. Visitors from all over, including the Netherlands, Canada, California and lots of folks from Kentucky came to town to enjoy the tours and the fun, she said.

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Bond bill signed

By SUE WATSON
Staff Writer

The Marshall County Board of Supervisors heard a report of the outcome of the legislative session, including the signing of a bond bill by Gov. Haley Barbour April 6.

Legislative consultant Gary Anderson focused on the passage of the bond bill and what is in it for Marshall County.

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Ben Ingram story in works

By SUE WATSON
Staff Writer

A descendant of the late Ben Ingram Jr. is putting together a history of the trial and acquittal of her grandfather nearly a century ago.

Schyleen Ingram Qualls, the granddaughter of Ben Ingram Jr., was guest speaker at a recent Holly Springs Rotary Club meeting, where she read from a book she is writing on the Ingram family. She describes the events which took place in Byhalia in 1918 and her grandfather’s acquittal by an all-white jury. Ingram, age 42, was charged with the murder of his neighbor, Green Brumley, with whom he had a long-standing dispute over property boundaries.

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Patricia Selman

Selman remembered as dedicated public servant

By SUE WATSON
Staff Writer

Holly Springs Assistant Police Chief Patricia Selman will be laid to rest Saturday after a long battle with cancer.

She is remembered for her leadership and dedication to law enforcement, to the community’s children and as a mother.

Selman, who died Tuesday at the age of 55, began a career in law enforcement May 7, 1988, with the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department, serving under sheriffs Jimmye Dale Green and Ernest Cunningham. She became a police officer at the city of Holly Springs on Feb. 20, 1996, where she moved to captain and to assistant chief under the administration of chief Robert Burby on Oct. 7, 2003. She served as interim police chief twice for the city, including from June 15, 2004 until Sept. 5, 2006.

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Restaurant, service station robbed at gunpoint

Two young black males with guns held the clerk at a restaurant on Highway 7 South at gunpoint and demanded cash from the register and safe Saturday around 10 p.m, according to chief Robert Pearson.

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Byhalia police respond to burglary, accident, more

The Byhalia Police Department responded to 32 calls during the past week.

Chief Gary Looney released the following report – alarm calls, 1; miscellaneous, 13; escorts, 5; juveniles, 1; animals, 1; motor vehicle accidents, 1; fires, 1; burglaries, 1; medical, 8.

Byhalia police officers also made six arrests during the past week.

Photo by Sue Watson

Thanks

Eloise McClinton, executive director of ICS Head Start, and Clen Moore, director of transportation, visit the board of supervisors to thank Marshall County leaders for budgeting money for ICS school buses each year. From left are Susie HIll, Eddie Dixon, Kent Smith, Chuck Thomas, Keith Taylor, McClinton, Ronnie Joe Bennett, Kenny Dickerson, Moore, Willie Flemon, George Zinn III and Larry Hall.

Photo by Sue Watson

Business After Hours
Tyson Drug Co. downtown hosted the Holly Springs Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours Thursday. Enjoying the event are (from left) Christine Walker, Rebecca Bourgeois, Anita Barnett and Emily Chisholm. Business After Hours included food, drinks and networking.

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