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Byhalia Chamber lunch scheduled for Thursday

The next Byhalia Area Chamber of Commerce quarterly meeting will be held on Thursday, October 25, at the Northcentral EPA Community Building, 225 Highway 309, Byhalia.

Doors open at 11:30 for networking; buffet is at 12 noon. Program sponsors are retired State Rep. Tommy Woods, Rep. Kelvin Buck, Sen. Bill Stone, and MDOT Commissioner Mike Tagert.

Chamber of Commerce members pay $5 with a reservation – all others pay $10 at the door.

Please call 838-8127 or respond by email, baccmembership@centurytel.net.

Supervisor Terry to host meeting next Tuesday

District 1 Supervisor Charles Terry will be having a town hall meeting on October 30.

The meeting will be held at the Red Banks Fire Department on South Red Banks Road, just north of Lee’s Crossing, at 6 p.m.

All concerned citizens are urged to come. The item of discussion will be litter.

Hickory Flat woman faces pair of charges

A North Mississippi resident is facing charges that she exploited a resident of the care facility where she worked, according to Attorney General Jim Hood.

Jessica Lowery, 38, of Hickory Flat, turned herself in to authorities in Union County October 16 on an indictment handed down by the Union County Grand Jury, which alleges one count of uttering a forgery and one count of exploitation of a vulnerable person.

The indictment alleges that Lowery, while employed as a resident assistant at the Magnolia Place Assisted Living Facility in New Albany, obtained a resident’s signature on eight personal checks under the guise of using the checks to buy personal items for the resident, but instead used the checks for her own benefit. Lowery is also accused of forging one check and pocketing the cash.

Lowery’s bond was set at $5,000. She is scheduled to make her initial court appearance on October 29 in Union County.

As with all cases, the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

The New Albany Police Department assisted with this case, which is being investigated by Joe Sanderson and will be prosecuted by Special Assistant Attorney General Pat McNamara of the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.

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