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| Supervisors work out budget plan By SUE WATSON The Marshall County Board of Supervisors voted in budget hearings Monday to keep the same budget the county operated on in fiscal year 2008-09, with the exception of granting a millage increase for the school district. There are no budget increases or decreases in county departments and all line items remain the same for the proposed 2009-10 fiscal year budget. Woman killed in train/car collision By SUE WATSON Linah Luana Muhammed Young, 21, of Mattie Drive in Byhalia, was killed Sunday in a collision with a westbound train, according to Marshall County Coroner James Richard Anderson. The accident occurred at 1:51 p.m. August 30 and Anderson pronounced Young dead on the scene at 2:48 p.m., he said. Young was driving northbound on North Fuller Street when she tried to cross the track, Anderson said. Museum moving home By SUE WATSON
Volunteers and paid help are busy putting back together the exhibits in the remodeled Marshall County Historical Museum. And there’s no one more excited about the way the exhibits are shaping up than curator Lois Swaney Shipp, the person responsible for the museum’s creation. Smoot new public works director By SUE WATSON He’s 56 and has spent 38 years in the construction business in Memphis. Just weeks ago he took over the position of public works director for the town of Byhalia, following the retirement of William Rose. Gary Smoot is glad to be working at home for the hometown he never left. He gets to live on the 30-acre home place with his sister and his family - a place where he learned to work, raising cows and growing gardens, no big farming, just big enough to eat and survive. Police investigate shooting death A man was shot and killed during the aggravated assault of another man at a Holly Springs residence last week, according to police chief Robert Pearson. Tuesday, Aug. 25, Benjamin Reed, 22, of Chickasaw, Ala., was shot and killed as he attacked a man living on Woodland Heights Drive with the brass head of a walking cane, the chief said.
City officials consider funding for E-WIN By SUE WATSON Edward Moses and Betty Yates made an appearance before the Holly Springs mayor and board of aldermen August 18 to ask for financial support of a new E-WIN Center in the county. They asked the city to contribute $60,000 toward operation of the center for one year. The money would pay salaries for two, Yates said. Mayor Andre’ DeBerry said the Mississippi Department of Employment Security, which gave the green light for the electronic center where laid-off workers can apply for unemployment and where people can search for jobs, had given the city an authority to operate but no appropriations (funding).
Youth skills program relocates office in Holly Springs There was an error in an article last week about the E-Win Center. Three Rivers Planning and Development District is continuing to fund the youth skills education program in Holly Springs, according to Bill Renick with Three Rivers. The statement by Betty Yates that the program had been dropped in Holly Springs is incorrect, he said. |
     
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