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- Representatives offer thoughts on coming legislative session
Monitor-Herald staff writer Mack Spencer asked the senators and representatives representing Calhoun and Chickasaw counties what their constituents might expect from the 2009 session.
- Oxford's Buchanan recalls historic appointment
BY PATSY R. BRUMFIELD Daily Journal OXFORD - Calvin "Buck" Buchanan hasn't parlayed his distinction as Mississippi's first and only black U.S. attorney into a high-powered legal career.
- School accountability
The just-released report of a statewide task force on failing schools goes to the heart of the issue with its recommendation that the state Board of Education have authority to remove and replace trustees in ...
- 16 weeks of training described as grueling
Lateef Skinner was on his third push-up Sunday afternoon as police instructors yelled in his ear for a fourth.
- Oxford Man Charged With Kidnapping Infant
An Oxford man wanted on kidnapping charges for allegedly abducting his girlfriend's 20-month-old toddler has turned himself in to the police.
- Twin County schools meet No Child guides
By Mack Spencer Monitor-Herald Schools in Calhoun and Chickasaw counties, by federal standards, did what they were supposed to do.
- Veterans Day events
Among them: TUPELO - A special Veterans Day program will be at 2 p.m. at the memorial in Veteran's Park.
- Local Folks:Army cook took prized possession overseas
By M. Scott Morris Daily Journal OKOLONA - In 1944, the Allies marched into Hurtgen Forest, a 70-square-mile section of heavily wooded terrain belonging to the Third Reich.
- M. Scott Morris:Flu shots arrive in the fall, when changes happen
We've got several things to cover today, so let's get started. First, needles. Did you flinch when you read that? Needles.
- Miss. Supreme Court losses to change court?
The Mississippi Supreme Court will lose one of its independent voices when Oliver Diaz Jr.
- Students rock the vote
County schools participate in mock elections By Lisa Voyles Chickasaw Journal CHICKASAW COUNTY - The children and youth of Chickasaw County beat the adults to the polls in the General Election, as they cast ...
- Supreme Court Justice District 3
Okolona Age: 54. Experience: Graduated from the University of Mississippi in 1975 with degree in Psychology and minor in English.
- Lamar, Barton vie for District 3, Place 1
Ann Hannaford Lamar, a sitting associate justice on the Mississippi Supreme Court, is being challenged for her seat on the statea s high court by Gene Barton, an attorney from Okolona.
- Two Sumpreme Court Justice seats are on the ballot
In seven days, voting will be over and most will not remember whom they elected as Mississippi Supreme Court Judge.
- Fundraising in Miss. chief judge race tops $1.2M
Chief Justice Jim Smith and challenger Jim Kitchens have raised more than $1.2 million in their campaign for the Mississippi Supreme Court.
- Supreme Court candidate pleads his case
Attorney Gene Barton, a candidate for the Mississippi State Supreme Court, made an impassioned plea in his campaign against incumbent Associate Justice Ann Lamar to the members of the Greenwood Voters League ...
- Supreme Court Justice Lamar campaigns locally
From Press, Staff Reports State Supreme Court Justice Ann Hannaford Lamar made a campaign swing through Webster County on Monday.
- Excel Needs Local Help To Continue
By JOEL McNEECE Excel of Calhoun City and all of its after-school and adult programs are in a a oefinancial crisis,a Sister Judy Sinnwell told the Calhoun City Chamber Tuesday at lunch.
- Who's funding NeMiss campaigns for high court?
BY PATSY R. BRUMFIELD Daily Journal Ann Hannaford Lamar of Senatobia reports her campaign for a full term on the Mississippi Supreme Court has raised $134,868 from July 1 through Sept.
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City DescriptionOkolona is a city in and one of the county seats of Chickasaw County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 3,056 at the 2000 census.
Okolona is located at 34°0′21″N 88°45′2″W / 34.00583, -88.75056 (34.0057, -88.7506).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.4 square miles (16.5 km²), of which, 6.3 square miles (16.4 km²) of it is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km²) of it (0.31%) is water.
The community is at the junction of U.S. Route 45 (Church Street) and State Highway 32 (Monroe Avenue).
Okolona began its development as the settlement of Rose Hill in 1845, but it was later discovered that another location had this name. When a post office was located there in 1850, it is reported by the Okolona Area Chamber of Commerce that the postmaster of nearby Aberdeen Colonel Josiah N. Walton remembered an encounter with a Chickasaw brave while traveling in the area years earlier. The brave’s name had been Oka-laua meaning peaceful, yellow, or blue water. Walton renamed the town in the brave’s honor as Okolona.
Due to the destruction brought to the area by the Civil War, few structures from this early period remain. However, the Elliot ... Read MoreCity Contained By:- Chickasaw County
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