COLUMBUS – Beulah Christine Ward Boozer, 99, died Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, at Trinity Healthcare Center in Columbus. She was born in Mississippi on Oct. 31, 1913, to Robert Emmett and Eliza Antonette Kilgo Ward. She graduated from Vardaman High School in 1933. She lived for many years in the Big Creek and Saltillo area. [...]
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Sweet potato imagination
Use your imagination Special to the Chickasaw Journal HOUSTON – Third and fourth grade students in Mrs. Lysbeth Parker’s and Mrs. Sharon Vance’s classes participated in the 2012 Sweet Potato Imagination contest as part of the week-long Sweet Potato Festival held in Vardaman. The students used sweet potatoes decorated to show their imaginative creations [...]
BASKETBALL SCORES: Tuesday, Jan. 22
High School Basketball GIRLS (G) Tupelo 68, South Panola 38 (G) H. W. Byers 69, West Union 28 (G) North Pontotoc 49, Rosa Fort 16 (G) Nettleton 47, South Pontotoc 35 (G) Hickory Flat 64, Strayhorn 23 (G) Pine Grove 58, Thrasher 46 (G) Belmont 57, Mooreville 44 (G) Vardaman 80, TCPS 50 (G) Wheeler [...]
Letha Long
VARDAMAN – Letha Cherry Long, 98, died Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. She was born March 6, 1914, in Waterloo, Ala. She was a member of New Hope Baptist Church, a homemaker and a farmer. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at New Hope Baptist Church in Vardaman [...]
ICC awards scholarships to local students
Special to the Chickasaw Journal FULTON – Scholarship recipients at Itawamba Community College for 2013 include Briana Michelle Wright of Vardaman, Leadership’ Sabrina Jones of Houlka, Leadership; and Jasmyne Tally of Houston, Academic, Leadership. Wright will be a 2013 graduate of Vardaman High School, where her activities have included varsity cheerleader to softball, Beta Club, [...]
Chickasaw students receive UM scholarships
OXFORD – The following University of Mississippi freshmen were awarded scholarship packages for the 2012-2013 academic year based on criteria that included academic and leadership credentials: Megan Renee Lewis of Okolona received a Ramzy Scholarship for $2,000, a Valedictorian/Salutatorian Scholarship for $1,000, and Academic Excellence Scholarship for $3,000, and a Bledsoe Scholarship for $1,500. Nathan Eugene Bailey of Okolona [...]
Myrl Armstrong
VARDAMAN – Myrl Hollingsworth Armstrong, 87, died Friday, Jan. 18, 2013, at Joy Healthcare and Rehab. in Cleveland. She was a retired employee of Kellwood Company and Vardaman Community Center. She was a member of Vardaman First Baptist Church. Service is at 11 a.m. Monday at Vardaman First Baptist Church with the Rev. Mike Ramage. [...]
Calhoun’s Williams earns ASC honor
Former Itawamba Community College Lady Indian turned Mississippi College Lady Choctaw, Ebony Williams of Calhoun City, was named American Southwest Conference East Division Women’s Basketball Player of the Week. Williams earned the honor after averaging 14.5 points, 10.5 rebounds and 3 assists while shooting 56.5 percent from the floor and recording two blocks and a [...]
New press to improve print quality
This week’s Chickasaw Journal newspaper has a fresher, cleaner, more colorful look, and there’s a reason. The newspaper delivered to your door this week is the first full edition of the Chickasaw Journal to come off a new printing press at the production facilities of the Chickasaw Journal in Tupelo. This multi-million dollar [...]
Antonia Brown
BRUCE – Antonia Marie Brown, 55 died Jan. 9, 2013, at North Mississippi Regional Center in Oxford. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at New Hope C.O.G.I.C in Bruce. Pastor Sinatra Williams will officiate. Burial will be in Bruce Community Cemetery in Pittsboro. Belle Memorial Funeral Home of Bruce is in charge. She is [...]
FLOYD INGRAM: Lawmakers head to Jackson
The Mississippi Legislature convened last week with 121 House members and 51 Senators raising their right hand and swearing to uphold the public trust and the laws of the State of Mississippi. We’ll see how long that oath lasts because they’ve got a lot of hard work ahead of them. Education is always a headliner [...]
Inner healing conference is this weekend
An Inner Healing Conference at New Wine Fellowship in Houston will be held Jan. 18-20 for teaching and ministering to those who need emotional healing. Pastor Tommy Kelly and Pastor Scott Free invite those who have been abused sexually, physically, emotionally are invited to attend services at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday with personal ministry [...]
BASKETBALL SCORES: Tuesday, Jan. 15
Basketball GIRLS (G) Shannon 82, Amory 35 (G) New Site 76, Hamilton 36 (G) Baldwyn 63, Hatley 59 (G) Vardaman 76, Smithville 22 (G) Mooreville 49, Mantachie 43 BOYS (B) Amory 70, Shannon 56 (B) New Site 61, Hamilton 57 (B) Baldwyn 69, Hatley 22 (B) Vardaman 63, Smithville 52 (B) Mooreville 73, Mantachie 42
Forecast from NWS for Chickasaw County
Wednesday: A 30 percent chance of rain. Cloudy, with a high near 44. North wind 5 to 10 mph. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Wednesday Night: A chance of rain before midnight, then a chance of rain and snow. Increasing clouds, with a low around 32. Calm wind [...]
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