REGINA BUTLER Progress Staff Writer Pontotoc City schools have hired two new administrators and moved a third person from within the school system into an administrative role. Pontotoc High School will be led by a new principal and assistant principal in the coming school year. Officials recently announced the hiring of Paul B. Henry and [...]
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Sherman school alumni seeking pavilion to be built for golden year reunion plans
REGINA BUTLER Progress Staff Writer Come next year, the Sherman school will be closed for 50 years and members of the classes who attended this small school would like to move their reunion back to the school grounds. Speaking on behalf of the group, alumni member Diane Rodgers said that since 2009 the school reunion [...]
Supervisors disburse Toyota tax in-lieu monies to schools
REGINA BUTLER Progress Staff Writer Pontotoc County supervisors disbursed the first of the Toyota in-lieu tax monies to the school districts this past Monday at their first of the month meeting. “We are going to disburse it out by a pupil ratio,” explained Wayne Stokes. Pontotoc county schools have $3,500 students while the city school [...]
Sherman gets perfect 5.0 drinking water award
Regina Butler Pontotoc Progress Lightening may not strike twice in the same spot but water awards can be handed out to the same town twice. The town of Sherman has recently garnered the best drinking water in Mississippi for the second time in a row. And this year the water received the highest grade possible, [...]
WWII vets flying to Washington, D.C. to see monuments
Regina Butler Pontotoc Progress They remember with amazing clarity a history that most of us can only read about. Yet many of these very men who fought to assure that we live in freedom have never seen the national shrines that have been built in their honor. Come next Tuesday, three men from this area [...]
Jackson re-enactment set at Longbow
Regina Butler Pontotoc Progress Residents in Pontotoc are in for a real treat next week when a special living history comes to the county for the public to view. The two day event includes a living history camp set up at Longbow Trails re-enacting the trip that General Andrew Jackson made from Natchez to Nashville [...]
Sherman moves city precinct to library
Regina Butler Pontotoc Progress Come election day the residents of Sherman will be voting in the library for their municipal leaders, freeing up the town hall for town business that night. “The library is used as a county precinct so we can use it as a municipal precinct as well,” said Mayor Ben Logan. The [...]
Supervisors asking for help in catching sign vandals
Regina Butler Pontotoc Progress Do you think it’s cute to spray paint a road sign? Pay a fine! Road signs across the county are being vandalized with spray paint and the supervisors are vowing to prosecute and fine to the fullest extent of the law. “We are going to ask for the maximum fine,” said [...]
Sherman Founders Day is Sat.
Regina Butler Pontotoc Progress This Saturday the town of Sherman will be rolling out the red carpet begining at 2 p.m. with a big cake reception, commemorating Founder’s Day, or 125 years of progress for the little town beside the railroad tracks in the northeastern part of the county. In the works since last fall, [...]
Career Center is last bastion for furniture training
Regina Butler Pontotoc Progress Pontotoc’s Career and Technology Center is unique in that it boasts the only furniture manufacturing class in the state of Mississippi. And it was in danger of being cut. Given a two year reprieve by the state regulators because of the support from educators and business leaders alike, the program, taught [...]
New Ag-C director hired
Regina Butler Pontotoc Progress Pontotoc County supervisors have hired a new director for the Agri-Center to replace outgoing director, Doug Anderson who resigned at the first meeting of the month. Board president Wayne Stokes confirmed last Friday that a new director was hired after interviewing several candidates. “We have hired Brian Woods for the job.” [...]
Progress wins 7 MPA awards
Regina Butler Pontotoc Progress The Pontotoc Progress garnered seven advertising awards at the Mississippi Press Association Winter conference in Jackson. Two first place awards, three second place awards and two third place awards were handed out in the better newspaper contest advertising division. The two first place awards went to Shelia Taylor for the Retail/process [...]
High winds cause damage in city
REGINA BUTLER Progress Staff Writer Straight line winds howled through the county early last Wednesday morning (January 30) knocking down power lines and trees causing damage to 21 structures within the city of Pontotoc. Emergency officials began fielding calls at 2 a.m. from frightened residents who wanted to seek shelter. A veteran fire fighter said [...]
Twenty arrests reported
REGINA BUTLER Progress Staff Writer Following months of investigation Pontotoc County law enforcement authorities arrested a number of people last week on an assortment of alleged drug charges. In a major county wide round up, 20 people had their initial appearance before Justice Court Judge David Hall last Wednesday, January 23. Sheriff Leo Mask said [...]
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Are you going to let the snakes win?
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Runoff Election Results 2013
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Alderman at large results
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Obituaries May 22, 2013
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Pontotoc City Schools hire new administrators
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Tanglefoot Trail still closed to walkers, riders
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Obituaries May 22, 2013
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Alderman at large results
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Runoff Election Results 2013
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