County supervisors accepting comments on use of Forest Service revenues for Firewise Program
PUBLIC NOTICE The Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (P.L. 113-40) gives counties containing USDA Forest Service lands the option of taking the traditional 25% payments based on timber sales receipts or a safety net payment known as the “full payment”. The full payment is based upon a funding formula that incorporates…
Read MoreMcLain issues final notice on 100-year floodplain project
FINAL NOTICE AND PUBLIC EXPLANATION OF A PROPOSED ACTIVITY IN THE 100-YEAR FLOODPLAIN To: All interested Agencies, Groups and Individuals This is to give notice that the Town of McLain has conducted an evaluation as required by Executive Order (11988 or 11990) in accordance with HUD regulations at 24 CFR 55.20 to determine the potential…
Read MoreMississippi starts stress-reduction rooms for prison workers
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi prison system is creating stress-reduction rooms for employees amid complaints that guards and others are overworked and underpaid. The Department of Corrections emailed a memo to employees this week saying Corrections Commissioner Pelicia Hall is having the rooms created at all sites operated by…
Read MoreAla. jury recommends death for Dearman
Leakesville native found guilty of mass killing near Citronelle Editor’s Note: The following was produced with permission from reports by reporter Mark R. Kent of the Call-News newspaper in Citronelle. Readers are advised that it contains disturbing details from testimony. From Staff and Special Reports A Mobile County jury has recommended a Greene County man…
Read MoreServices to be held Saturday, Sept. 29, for John Alton Pierce
John Alton Pierce Leakesville A memorial service will be held Saturday, Sept. 29, at Leakesville United Pentecostal Church in Leakesville, beginning at 11 a.m., for John Alton Pierce, 52, of Leakesville, who passed away Friday, Sept. 21, 2018, at George Regional Hospital, after losing his battle to cancer. John Alton was born on August 23,…
Read MoreDearman agrees to guilty plea in grizzly 2016 killings near Citronelle
MOBILE — Attorneys for a Greene County man accused of a mass killing near Citronelle, Ala. in 2016 will reportedly plead guilty to the murders. Reporter Mark R. Kent of the Call-News newspaper, which covers Citronelle and Mobile County, is reporting that attorneys representing Derrick Dearman filed notice Tuesday morning in Mobile County Circuit Court…
Read MoreForeclosures, etc. filed in Chancery Court week – Published Aug 23, 2018
SUBSTITUTED TRUSTEE’S NOTICE OF SALE WHEREAS, on August 5, 2015, Mary Williford and Mark Williford, wife and husband, executed a deed of trust to Donovan McComb, Trustee for the benefit of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., acting solely as Nominee for First Southern Bank, its successors and assigns, which deed of trust is recorded in…
Read MoreNurse summoned to defend license
LEGAL NOTICE To MICHELLE ROGERS: You are summoned to appear before the Mississippi Board of Nursing on OCTOBER 11, 2018 at 8:30 a.m. to answer charges brought against you. The hearing will be held in the hearing room at the office of the Mississippi Board of Nursing, which is located at 713 S. Pear Orchard…
Read MoreCounty supervisors accepting bids for State Aid road projects
OFFICE OF STATE AID ROAD CONSTRUCTION MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND GREENE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS SECTION 900 – NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS: Sealed bids will be received by the Board of Supervisors of Greene County, Mississippi at the Greene County Courthouse, Leakesville, Mississippi, until 10:00 am on the 26th day of September, 2018 and shortly…
Read MoreGaines Warriors to memorialize friend, founding member Chase Thornton on Saturday
From Staff Reports The Greene County chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans will honor one of their founding members this weekend with a special celebration in his memory. SCV Camp 2215, Greene County Gaines Warriors, invites anyone interested to assemble with them this Saturday, Aug. 18, at the Canaan Baptist Church Cemetery off George…
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