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David Helms Pontotoc Progress City of Pontotoc voters will return to the polls in all four wards on Tuesday, May 21, for the runoff election for the alderman at large post. In last week’s Democratic first primary, candidates David White and Phyllis High outdistanced incumbent Herman Austin to advance to the runoff. The final tally [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 (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 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.

Jordan Curtis is the 16 year old daughter and only child of Tommy and Tavia Curtis, and is in the 10th grade at North Pontotoc High School. She will be going to Romania with Global Expeditions, which is a part of Teen Mania Ministries, based in Garden Valley, Texas, leaving June 15th and returning on [...]

David Helms Pontotoc Progress Municipal Democratic primaries are scheduled for next Tuesday (May 7) in Pontotoc and Ecru. Polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. Any runoff elections are scheduled for Tuesday, May 21. Pontotoc’s municipal primary will decide the mayor’s race and include voting in alderman races for Wards 2, 3, [...]

David Helms Pontotoc Progress At the urging of lifelong Pontotoc resident Ken Pruett, Pontotoc Aldermen took steps last week to  support cleanup efforts at the Pontotoc City Cemetery. At Pruett’s request, aldermen unanimously approved a motion which henceforth annually designates the second Saturday in June as Clean the City Cemetery Day. The 74-year-old Pruett, who [...]

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 [...]

David Helms Pontotoc Progress In a special called meeting last week (April 8), the Pontotoc Board of Aldermen voted 4-1 to award a $206,300.00 contract to Roberts Builders, of Ripley, to construct a pavilion style facility in downtown Pontotoc which will be called Off the Square Market. Off the Square Market will be constructed at [...]

David Helms Pontotoc Progress At the April 2 board meeting, Pontotoc Aldermen said they will work with the Pontotoc County Historical Society to erect a marker on North College Street honoring the late, acclaimed soprano singer Ruby Elzy. Elzy, a Pontotoc native, became a star of Broadway, radio and the movies in the 1930s. Last [...]

David Helms Pontotoc Progress Pontotoc firemen and volunteers are hoping pink will be the hit fashion trend this spring when the Pink Heals Pontotoc North MS Chapter hosts its kickoff fund-raiser on Saturday, April 20, on the Pontotoc Court Square. The Pink Heals Pontotoc North MS Chapter, the first in Mississippi, was chartered in January. [...]