Last week I was walking up the steps into the office with my hands full. I was trying to be nice and open the door for a customer but apparently I moved a little too quickly because I fell down and scraped my knee. My feelings were hurt more so than my knee scrape but [...]
Even the best of families have earworms
Singer Ray Stevens warned his wife, “Don’t look Ethel!” Your momma warned you, “Don’t spin around and around, you’ll get sick.” (Momma was always right) Every week for five years in the 1960s, on a black and white television with a 19-inch screen surrounded by a 46-inch wooden cabinet, Rod Serling warned you: “You’re traveling [...]
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 [...]
Residents to organize city cemetery association
By DAVID HELMS Pontotoc Progress Lifelong Pontotoc resident Ken Pruett announced this week that interested citizens are urged to attend a Pontotoc City Cemetery Association organizational meeting tomorrow night (Thursday, May 9). The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at the Pontotoc Community House. “The purpose of this meeting is to organize an association which [...]
Superintendent to make hiring recommendations
By DAVID HELMS Pontotoc Progress Pontotoc City School Superintendent Karen Tutor said she will make some hiring recommendations on three principal vacancies when the school board meets next Monday night (May 13). Pontotoc City School is looking to hire new principals at Pontotoc High School, Pontotoc Middle School and Pontotoc Elementary School after those three [...]
FNB offering facade loan
By DAVID HELMS Pontotoc Progress Pontotoc First National Bank officials announced last week they are committing $100,000 to fund a zero interest loan program available to Pontotoc downtown merchants, or building owners, to improve the front facade of their building. First National officials said the bank will loan up to $5,000 for each store front [...]
Ecru election results FINAL
Ecru election results total Mayor: Tom Todd- 141 Mark Baldwin- 156- winner Alderman: Charles Mitchell- 136 Jimmy Whitehead- 165- winner Donald Andrews-162- winner Glen Denton- 169- winner Gloria High 170- winner Bernice Shumaker- 149 Whitney Smith- 134 Dr. James Speck- 158- winner Carl Glenn Dowdy- 93
UNOFFICIAL ELECTION RESULTS of All Wards
UNOFFICIAL ELECTION RESULTS OF All Wards (include absentees but not affidavits) Mayor Bob Peeples 641 Jeff Stafford 703- winner Alderman at large Herman Austin 289 Phyllis High 503- runoff on May 21 David White 559- runoff on May 21 Alderman ward 4 Robert Hooker 129 Rayburn Mapp 209- Democratic winner, will face Regina Patterson (R) [...]
ELECTION RESULTS 2013
Election results from around Northeast Mississippi and in Pontotoc County. There are primary races in Pontotoc and Ecru tonight. Follow along with the Pontotoc Progress all night. Get all your election coverage here. And read about these elections and more each week in the Pontotoc Progress newspaper. Click here for results.
SPORTS SPOTLIGHT: POP STAR AWARD – Nominated teammates vie for PopStar Award
By TIM TUTOR/ Sports Editor According to Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum Marketing Director Lulu Maness, Pontotoc High standout student-athletes Bailey Wray and Colton Bramlett have been nominated for the 2013 PopStar Award in powerlifting. Named in honor of 1981 National High School Athletic Director of the Year and long time Jackson Public [...]
HIGH SCHOOL TRACK & FIELD: 4A NORTH STATE MEET – Class 4A North State Champions, Nine PHS Lady Warriors qualify for State Meet
By TIM TUTOR /Sports Editor The Pontotoc High Lady Warrior track team came away from the MHSAA Class 4A North Half track meet Saturday as the 2013 North Half Champions. With 121 team points, the Lady Warriors edged out second place Corinth with 119 team points. Noxubee County and Lafayette County finished tied for third [...]
HIGH SCHOOL TRACK & FIELD: NORTH STATE MEET – Pontotoc boys finish fourth in field of twenty, Warriors send four to state meet
By TIM TUTOR/ Sports Editor Just ahead of Corinth (51), the Warriors of Pontotoc High finished fourth (55) in the 2013 North State Meet held in Pontotoc on Saturday. Winning the Championship was New Albany with 82 team points, followed by Rosa Fort in second with 80 and Noxubee County in third with 59. The [...]
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Cemetery association organizing
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Authorities searching for prisoner
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White and High set for May 21 runoff
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Ecru Police Department gets windfall from MDOT
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You can never have too many diapers (or golf balls)
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Alderman at large results
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Runoff Election Results 2013
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Are you going to let the snakes win?
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You can never have too many diapers (or golf balls)
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Ecru Police Department gets windfall from MDOT
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