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Voters in Amory, Baldwyn and Shannon will choose mayors and Booneville will narrow its mayoral field for the general election in party primary runoffs today. They are among 11 Northeast Mississippi municipalities holding runoffs. Tupelo is not one of them; the two-man mayor’s race will be decided in the June 4 general election. Polls open [...]

AMORY – Richard Murry opened the first Wheel City in Verona in 1989, but came to Amory in 1994 at the suggestion of a customer. “After the guy commented that Amory needed a tire business, I researched it and it looked good,” Murry said. Originally from Blue Mountain, Murry also opened a Wheel City in [...]

ABERDEEN – In a somber ceremony Thursday, April 18, cadets from Aberdeen High School’s JROTC program paid tribute to former AHS JROTC cadet, Sgt. Adam Ray, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2010. “It meant a lot to me to be a part of this. This ceremony made me realize we’re honoring a hero. After [...]

AMORY – On Friday, May 10, East and West Amory Elementary Students were treated with a visit from Miss Natchez Trace 2013, Randi Kathryn Harmon. Harmon was present to promote her Miss Mississippi platform “P.E.A.C.E. for Children” (Physical Exercise And Careful Eating) and also her new children’s book, “P.E.A.C.E. for Pandas” she has recently written. [...]

As smart minds engineer ways to speed the information age right on along, criminal minds find new ways to manipulate technology to their advantage. Cyberstalking and Craigslist scams are terms once unheard of, but are now just more cases for law enforcement to investigate. To adapt with the changing technology, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office [...]

AMORY – Local officials hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony Thursday, May 9 for the town’s newest playground. Located at the Pea Patch, the playground was made possible through a grant through KaBoom!, Dr. Pepper and Snapple. The community build project was first mentioned last year as part of Amory’s Healthy Hometown Initiative.  The city was [...]

For the Monroe Journal Oxford – Former Miss Mississippi/Recording Artist/Actress, Mary Donnelly Haskell, will star in the title role of Dolly Levi, the meddling matchmaker in Jerry Herman’s iconic Broadway Musical “Hello Dolly” June 27-30 at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts at Ole Miss. “Hello Dolly” will be the featured full scale musical [...]