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- Municipal elections off to busy start
Filing will continue through March 6 with primary elections on May 5. Runoffs, if needed, will be May 19, and the general election is June 2. The offices of mayor and all Board of Aldermen seats are up for ...
- Olive Branch aldermen to show support for hospital
Olive Branch aldermen will vote on a resolution supporting construction of a hospital in the city.
- Fireworks Legal Some Places, NOT Others
New Year's Eve, a big night for Fireworks Patchwork of laws makes knowing where to use them tricky New Laws in effect in some DeSoto Cities this year dennis.turner@wreg.com Lots of mid-southerners will ring in ...
- Area restaurants to ring in year with parties
DeSoto County restaurants have big plans for New Year's Eve. John Daly's Restaurant & Bar in Olive Branch will kick off its New Year's Eve festivities at 8 p.m. Dec.
- Area fitness clubs expect memberships to increase in new year
Lose weight. Tighten the abdomen. Strengthen the arms. Shape the legs. Improving fitness and losing weight often top New Year's resolution lists.
- OB police investigating O'Charley's break-in
Amanda Compton-Ortiz Times-Tribune News Staff OLIVE BRANCH-Olive Branch police are looking to make an arrest in a weekend break-in at the citya s O-Charleya s restaurant.
- No arrests made in burning of playground equipment
OLIVE BRANCH a ' Olive Branch Police Chief Art Heun said Friday that no arrests had yet been made in connection with the burning of playground equipment in the citya TMs Magnolia Park Tuesday night.
- Olive Branch will make city codes available online
"Everybody seems to get their information from the Internet today," Mayor Sam Rikard said.
- Students send - Merry Christmas' overseas
Olive Branch High Schooler Tia Jackson decorates a Christmas card intended for a student in Japan.
- Olive Branch rezones site after complaints of eyesore
Neighbors complained at a recent meeting of the Board of Aldermen that the old Polar Kraft property in back of their homes is junky.
- Olive Branch library honors friends
Sarah Camp, incoming president of the Friends of the B.J. Chain Public Library in Olive Branch, inspects some of the group's projects.
- Olive Branch doctor's demeanor earns admiration of patients
He also is a Southaven alderman. Directing the care and comfort of hospice patients who aren't expected to get better might seem to outsiders like a task with no reward, but not so, says Huling.
- Fewer new homes in DeSoto
It will be the first time in 10 to 15 years that the collective number of single-family building permits in DeSoto and its cities has dipped to three digits.
- Olive Branch names its Officer of the Year
"I was surprised," said Schreffler, who is assigned to a northern ward of the city for patrolling.
- Garriga: Mentally ill don't belong in jail
Keeping mentally ill patients out of jail and in a mental health care facility instead where they can receive proper treatment is a goal of the DeSoto County Board of Supervisors, DeSoto County Administrator ...
- Priest makes Hurricane Katrina damage into cross
An Olive Branch priest selected chunks of glass ripped from a church by Hurricane Katrina and turned what was a mess into a masterpiece.
- Briefly: Snow possible this morning
"My gut feeling is that we most likely would have rain. The most likely spot for snow in North Mississippi is in the area near Corinth, in the northeastern corner of the state," he said.
- Two suspects arrested in armed robbery at OB Walgreens
Olive Branch police arrested two suspects Thursday in connection with an armed robbery at Walgreens in August.
- Public split on issue of county firearm regulation
DeSoto County officials are getting more comments than they ever expected on the issue of discharging firearms in county subdivisions.
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City DescriptionOlive Branch is a city in DeSoto County, Mississippi, United States. It is the ninth largest city in Mississippi. Olive Branch is a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee. The city is situated at the intersection of the U.S. Highway 78 freeway and Mississippi State Highway 302 (known locally as Goodman Road). The population was 21,054 at the 2000 census. The United States Census Bureau estimates as of July 1, 2007, the population of Olive Branch has reached 30,635. Along with other fast growing suburban cities in DeSoto County, Olive Branch attributes most of its growth and development to the exodus of large numbers of middle-class families from central Memphis (white flight).
Olive Branch is located at 34°57′47″N 89°50′30″W / 34.96306, -89.84167 (34.963007, -89.841627).
Olive Branch is less than 5 miles (8 km) from Memphis, Tennessee, the largest city in the area.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 36.3 square miles (94.0 km²), of which, 36.2 square miles (93.7 km²) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km²) of it (0.25%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 21,054 people, 7,546 households, and 6,036 families residing in the city. The ... Read MoreCity Contained By:City Contains:Timezones:Size:
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