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Drew law joins Click-It or Ticket
The Drew Police Department is cracking down on unbuckled drivers and passengers as part of the national "Click It or Ticket" program. Beginning on Monday and running through June 5, the department...

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JFK High given honor
ohn F. Kennedy Memorial High School Principal Dr. Wanda Stringer announced the school has another honor. JFK was recently named one of America's Best High Schools by U.S. News and World Report, wh...

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Anderson Curry to be released
On July 12, 2004, Anderson Curry II walked through the doors of Unit 29 in the Mississippi State Penitentiary to serve a 20-year sentence for aggravated assault. He will walk out a free man in les...

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Supt. covers many issues
Testing, vaccines and Senate Bill 2760 were a few of the items discussed during the Mound Bayou Board of Trustees meeting on Wednesday. "We finished all of our state testing last week and for the ...

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Be informed when pulling over for law enforcement
Investigations into a pair of shootings that have occurred over the past two weeks on Mississippi highways has officials warning people in the northern part of the state to take precautions while d...

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It has become an annual tradition for the students in the graduating class at Presbyterian Day School to paint a vehicle donated by the parents to commemorate their time spent at the school. On Wednesday, the students of the graduating class had a ball painting this car and making memories with their classmates as they prepare to move into the lives of middle-schoolers.

PDS grads celebrate moving to middle school

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Cleveland designated as a National Main Street Program
Recently, Cleveland was named as one of several Mississippi Main Street Communities to be designated as an accredited National Main Street Program for meeting the commercial district revitalization...

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Later school start may hinder Delta
With a signature, Gov. Phil Bryant put an end to schoolchildren returning to classes in early August. Earlier this month Bryant signed House Bill 707; a law that would push school start dates back...

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Oakes pleads guilty to deaths
A Bolivar County man pled guilty on Tuesday to charges of vehicular homicide for his role in a March 2011 automobile accident that took the lives of two Delta teenagers. Timothy Wade Oakes pled gu...

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Margaret Green Junior High School seventh grade star science students were recently treated with a visit from Delta State University Science professor, Lacey Fitts. During his visit, Fitts instructed students about how changing density and angles affects the flight path of rockets. Under her instruction the students built rockets and launched them into the atmosphere.

Margaret Green Junior High School students build rockets

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Parents of the Year were (from left): Rovanda Small for Parks Elementary and for the district, Amy Mallette for Cleveland Career Development and Technology Center, Audrey Williams for East Side High School, Lester Evans for D.M. Smith Middle School, Tiffany Watridge for Margaret Green Junior High School, Florene Thompson for Pearman Elementary and Desira Warrington for Cleveland High School. Npictured are Shanta Duvall for Cypress Park Elementary and Valerie McClellan for Nailor Elementary.

School district honors parent volunteers
Parent volunteers from various schools in the Cleveland School District were recognized Monday at the district's school board meeting. "We have invited our parent volunteers to come to our board m...

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Griffin expected to change plea
On Oct. 27, 2011, Rosedale Police Officer Tavoris Griffin was arrested in Cleveland on two counts of possessing a controlled substance with intent to distribute, along with assaulting and resisting...

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Corps working on levee
The United States Army Corps of Engineers began Phase One of its flood fight in December when the river hit unusual highs following last year's flood. Now as the threat of a spring time flood has r...

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Sherrie Crain loads canned goods into mail bins behind the Cleveland Post Office on Saturday as items were delivered from the Letter Carriers annual food drive, Stamp Out Hunger. The Letter Carriers food drive estimated this year s canned food collection at upwards of 2,500 pounds of food.

Carriers gather food for hunger drive

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Docket set for next court session
The court docket for weeks two and three of the May-June session of the Bolivar County Second Judicial District Court has been set and trials will be presented before the honorable Albert B. Smith,...

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