Archive - Feb 2013 - Latest News
February 6th
By STEVEN NALLEY
educ@starkvilledailynews.com
Mississippi State University will host a Women of Color Summit at 8 a.m. Friday, Feb. 8 at the Colvard Student Union’s Foster ballroom with the aim of discussing issues and statistics impacting minority women and ways to increase their chances of academic success.
By NATHAN GREGORY
citybeat@starkvilledailynews.com
Former Ward 7 Alderman Janette Self qualified Wednesday to run for election as a Democrat in that same ward.
Self, who served from 2005-09, was defeated by current Ward 7 Alderman Henry Vaughn when she ran for re-election four years ago. Vaughn has also qualified as a Democrat to run for a second term.
By PAULINE JELINEK
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Saturday mail may soon go the way of the Pony Express and penny postcards. The Postal Service said Wednesday that it plans to cut back to five-day-a-week deliveries for everything except packages to stem its financial losses in a world radically re-ordered by the Internet.
February 5th
By NATHAN GREGORY
citybeat@starkvilledailynews.com
If Starkville Aldermen approved downtown parking fine increases effective immediately, there would have been one problem, Police Chief David Lindley said at the board’s Tuesday meeting.
The people tasked with writing parking tickets wouldn’t be able to write any more of them until they got new ones.
By CARL SMITH
news@starkvilledailynews.com
A bill authorizing school district officials to carry concealed weapons passed the Miss. House Education Committee Monday and will move to the full house for discussion.
By BEN WAIT
sports@starkvilledailynews.com
For many avid college football fans, today will feature some of the biggest headlines of the college football season.
No, there isn’t a game today or the start of fall practice — it’s National Signing Day. Many recruits will sign with their college choice today.
By STEVEN NALLEY
educ@starkvilledailynews.com
Mississippi Kids Count recognized the Starkville School District’s Emerson Family Center as one of its Success Stories at its Light Up the Night dinner Friday in Jackson, giving Emerson a place of honor in the recently released 2013 Mississippi Kids Count Data Book.
February 4th
By CARL SMITH
news@starkvilledailynews.com
The Oktibbeha County Board of Supervisors agreed in principle Monday to enter into a reduced-cost comprehensive planning contract with Oxford-based firm Slaughter and Associates.
By STEVEN NALLEY
educ@starkvilledailynews.com
Oktibbeha County School District conservator Margie Pulley approved annual plans for technology, professional development and test security at the district’s regular monthly meeting Monday.
By NATHAN GREGORY
citybeat@starkvilledailynews.com
If all members of the Starkville Board of Aldermen vote the same way they did Jan. 2 to increase pay for the mayor and aldermen today during their meeting, they will have more than enough votes to override Mayor Parker Wiseman’s veto.
