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Thursday, July 21, 2011
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Chief Pearson dies in accident
• ‘Great friend, great person’

By SUE WATSON
Staff Writer

Photo by Sue Watson

Robert Pearson shares a big hug with Songi Adams Thursday night at Bikers Night downtown.

Former Holly Springs Police Chief Robert Pearson, starting just his third week of retirement, died Sunday afternoon in a motorcycle accident.

It happened about six miles from Holly Springs on Highway 4 East, according to coroner James Richard Anderson.

The call came in to 911 at 4:37 p.m. July 17. Anderson said he got the call to come to the scene at 4:57 p.m. and arrived at 5:13 p.m., about half a mile from Scales Tower Road. Air Wings had been called but was waved off after it was clear Pearson had lost his life, he said.

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City plan in works

By SUE WATSON
Staff Writer

Bob Barber rolled out important aspects of a 20-year plan he is developing for the City of Holly Springs during a recent luncheon.

Barber, partner in Orion Planning Group in Hernando, was guest speaker at the Holly Springs Chamber of Commerce luncheon held at the Beckley Center on the Rust College Campus.

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Bikers/blues off to great start

By SUE WATSON
Staff Writer

Bikers Night and Blues Alley music, the first of the season, drew an estimated attendance of 800 people to the North Center Street area, plus 45 bikers, according to Rebecca Bourgeois, executive director of Holly Springs Main Street.

She said the VIP chamber party to kick off the first Thursday night of activity was a huge success, as well.

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Developer agrees to build retention pond

By SUE WATSON
Staff Writer

Terry Fortwengler wants to build a house on a lot he bought in Carriage Manor Subdivision.

Developer Dean Long and his partner Doug Stalling want a hold on building permits in their 58-acre subdivision lifted by the Marshall County Board of Supervisors.

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Rags to Riches Tour returns to Tupelo and will include Holly Springs

Get your motors running, and plan to cruise the fifth annual “Rags to Riches Tour” on Saturday, August 20.

Bring your classic or antique automobile to take a ride on Old Highway 78, commemorating the ride Elvis and his family took when they left Tupelo in their 1939 Plymouth and moved to Memphis, Tenn.

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Holly Springs police go to 87 calls

The Holly Springs Police Department reported 87 calls for the week, according to interim chief Lt. John Norman.

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Successful youth program

Photo by Sue Watson

Holly Springs’ fourth youth summer program drew an enrollment of 63 children, the largest ever, according to parks and recreation director Kenneth McMullen. The month-long program, sponsored by the city, provides a variety of activities for children including sports and dance. Area school coaches provided instruction and area businesses and individuals contributed to the program by purchasing bicycles and other sports items for an end of the summer drawing. Children and parents, as well as patrons of the program, assembled at the multi-purpose building for awarding of certificates, a dance presentation and drawing for gifts. Assembled with the children in front of an array of new bicycles are the coaches and assistants. Shown in the back row are Coach Hood, coach Maxine Tucker, coach Derwin Cooper, assistant instructor Tamara Pryor, dance instructor Laterrica Tate and assistant Ryan Bridgeforth. Not shown are coach Anthony Thompson and McMullen

Tax picture improves

By SUE WATSON
Staff Writer

In a recent update on the delinquent taxes this year to date, tax collector Betty Byrd said state revenues may be improving in light of an increase in the legislative tax credit for automobile tags.

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Photo by Barry Burleson

Fire at Cargill

No injuries were reported in an early morning fire and a mid-morning explosion at the Cargill Animal Nutrition facility in Byhalia, Friday, July 15, according to Byhalia Fire Chief Leland Reed. The cause of the fire and explosion are under investigation by Cargill, he said. Firefighters responded to a fire call to the plant between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m., then to a second call of an explosion at about 10:45 a.m., Reed said. Firefighters put out fires and extinguished hot spots in below-grade and above-grade sections of the plant, he said. Two trucks from the Byhalia Fire Department and one truck from the Holly Springs Fire Department responded, he said. The matter was settled and Reed said he left the site at 6:38 p.m.

Man drowns in creek

Elton Hughes, 27, from the Chulahoma area, drowned Tuesday afternoon in a swimming hole in a creek on Beale Road, according to Maj. David Cook with the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office.

Cook said people have been known to swim in the creek for years. Three or four members of the Holly Springs Fire Department’s divers unit located the body about 4 p.m.

Cook said Hughes was not diving off the bridge, as some media had reported, but was in the swimming hole with about six to eight other swimmers when he went under and did not come back up to the surface.

E-911 was alerted about 3 p.m. and first responders from the Byhalia, Holly Springs, and Watson fire departments responded to the call, as well as officers with the sheriff’s department and emergency management director Hugh Hollowell.

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