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Job center slated to close By SUE WATSON
The hard-fought-for Marshall-Benton WIN Job Center is on the chopping block, along with a dozen other centers in the state, all caught up in the federal government’s sequestration budget cuts. Reports surfaced last week in the media that 13 WIN Job Centers will be closed next month. Rep. Kelvin Buck called the closing of the centers “a very unfortunate development that could have been avoided at the national level.” City launches website By SUE WATSON The city of Holly Springs has a newly-designed website up and running – www.hollyspringsmsus.com. Ken Robinson, director of the Regional Technology Center, announced the site is ready for viewing. A comprehensive review of classes and activities at the technology center is shown on the site.
Trial ends in guilty verdict By SUE WATSON A Wall Hill Road resident was convicted of grand larceny by a Marshall County jury, according to sheriff Kenny Dickerson. The trial concluded Friday. Dickerson said Deanna Lee Herbert, 47, of the 400 block of Wall Hill Road, was charged with taking an expensive wedding band from a Quail Ridge Road residence where she was housecleaning. The victims filed a stolen property report in January 2012. U.S. district judge hands down sentence in embezzlement case Deborah Shaw, 53, of Waterford, has been sentenced by United States Senior District Judge Neal B. Biggers Jr., in Oxford, following her plea of guilty last fall on one count of embezzlement by a bank employee. Judge Biggers, on May 21, ordered Shaw, a former employee of Merchants and Farmers Bank in Holly Springs, to serve 30 months in prison, followed by five years’ supervised release, according to a press release from the United States Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Mississippi. She was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $327,842. Shaw has been ordered to report to prison on June 17. County to get new radios By SUE WATSON The Marshall County sheriff’s office is putting some money won in a tobacco litigation settlement to use. Close to $200,000 of money that was awarded to the county as the result of the work of the late Jimmy Warren will be available to purchase radio system equipment, according to Maj. David Cook. He said the county got grant money a few years ago to purchase 15 radios to talk on the statewide system. The units were spread among agencies locally, such as the sheriff’s office, emergency management and the fire departments. Those units have been up and running. Relay for Life set for June 14-15 By SUE WATSON The 14th Marshall County Relay for Life, to raise funds for the American Cancer Society, is just around the corner. The big event, taking place this year at the Marshall County Fairgrounds, begins at 6 p.m. Friday, June 14, and runs until 6 a.m. Saturday, June 15. Fairgrounds staying busy By SUE WATSON Jerry Bolden, with the Marshall County Fairgrounds board of directors, reported to the board of supervisors recently on timber harvesting, grounds upkeep, and activities at the site located off Highway 7 North. The property also brings in some income from hay harvesting contracts. The logging will both make money for the fairgrounds to pay off its debt and make a healthier forest. The timber has to be harvested or lost, he said. ICS Head Start wants to expand By SUE WATSON It will soon be budget planning time for the Marshall County Board of Supervisors and groups are coming before the board with their “thank yous” and their requests. ICS Head Start, represented by executive director Eloise McClinton and communications director Fannie Lampley, thanked the board for its annual support for the purchase of a new bus. McClinton said it shows the people in the county that the elected officials are behind Head Start. Asbury to honor Moses By SUE WATSON Edward Moses, pastor of Asbury UMC/Calvin UMC for the past seven years, is leaving Holly Springs to take a position in the Jackson area. A send-off at Asbury is planned for Saturday, June 15, at 5:30 p.m. Moses moves to Jackson June 18. Holly Springs police go to 142 calls Officers with the Holly Springs Police Department responded to 142 calls last week, according to chief William Hollowell. The calls included - disturbances, 9; alarms, 18; larcenies, 3; accidents, 8; assist to agencies, 1; burglaries, 7; domestics, 4; checks on homebound, 2; assaults, 4; funeral escorts, 6; auto theft, 4; missing persons, 2; malicious mischief, 3; auto burglary 1, and 70 miscellaneous calls. The dogcatcher responded to nine calls. |
    
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