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Lifestyles
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Saturday, 07 November 2009 |
ANNOUNCEMENT
POLICIES
All “Around Town” announcements are published as a community service on a first-come, first-served basis and as space allows. Announcements will be published a minimum of three times and may be printed additional times if space allows.
Announcements must be 60 words or less, written in complete sentences and submitted in writing at least three days prior to the requested dates of publication.
Longer announcements will be published if space allows. No announcements will be taken over the telephone.
To submit announcements, send e-mail to Lifestyles Editor Gwen Sisson at
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, a fax to 323-6586, or drop them by the newspaper offices at 304 E. Lampkin Street.
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Bringing Memphis-style Barbecue to Starkville |
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Wednesday, 04 November 2009 |
By GWEN SISSON
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Starkville’s newest restaurant is raising eyebrows by serving breakfast in a barbecue restaurant.
Three Little Pigs is now open and serving breakfast. And while many people typically do not associate barbecue and breakfast, the owners of Three Little Pigs say it is a good thing.
The home cooked breakfast includes country ham, fresh cooked biscuits and eggs to order. Charlie Robertson, owner of Three Little Pigs, said for breakfast, eggs to order is their speciality.
“We know how to cook eggs,” Robertson said “You don’t want your egg brown and lacy.”
And while breakfast has been the main topic of discussion in regards to the new restaurant, they are also bringing Memphis-style barbecue to the Starkville area.
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Council on Community Organizations dedicated their building in honor of David Rogers & Viola Johns |
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Sunday, 25 October 2009 |
David Rogers & Viola Johnson  The Council on Community Organizations (COCO) recently honored long-time volunteers, David Rogers and Viola Johnson, with a special dedication ceremony. The dream of constructing an educational and recreational community center for Oktibbeha County is the founding dream for COCO, and once this dream
became a reality, it was important to dedicate the center to two founding
members of the organization, who had pushed to make the dream a reality...
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Abraham Lincoln Revisited Panel at the Sportsplex |
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Sunday, 25 October 2009 |
By Harry Freeman
Starkville Reads
“To understand Lincoln is to understand the meaning of America.” Dr. John Marszalek, Executive Director of the U.S. Grant Association, MSU
On the evening of Tuesday, November 3, at 7 p.m. at the Sportsplex, Starkville Reads, in cooperation with the Golden Triangle Civil War Roundtable, will sponsor a panel of knowledgeable Civil War experts discussing “Abraham Lincoln Revisited.” Please join Bill Parrish as he moderates a panel of John Marszalek, Michael Ballard, and Duffy Neubauer. The panel will examine Abraham Lincoln from a variety of perspectives including his background, his marriage, his personality, his presidency, and his greatness.
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engagement of Courtnay Sandiage Greer and Kyle Justin Veazey |
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Sunday, 25 October 2009 |
Greer, Veazey
Steve and Claire Greer of Collierville, Tenn., are happy to announce the engagement and upcoming marriage of their daughter, Courtnay Sandiage Greer of Collierville, Tenn., to Kyle Justin Veazey of Puryear, Tenn., son of Tommy and Regina Veazey of Puryear, Tenn.
Kyle proposed to Courtnay on Sunday, June 7, 2009, on the rooftop of the Peabody Hotel in downtown Memphis, Tenn.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Virginia Smith and the late Kenneth Smith of Starkville, the late Herb Greer and the late Iva Greer of Jackson.
She is a 2004 graduate of Houston High School and a 2007 graduate of Mississippi State University. She is currently a graduate student working on her Master of Science in Community Counseling at Mississippi State University.
The prospective groom is the grandson of the late Nathaniel Orr and the late Oyna Orr of Puryear, Tenn., Dorothy Veazey and the late Charles Veazey of Paris, Tenn.
He is a 2000 graduate of Henry County High School and a 2004 graduate of The University of Mississippi. He is currently employed at The Clarion Ledger.
The wedding is set for 11 a.m. December 12, 2009, at the Chapel of Memories on the Mississippi State University campus in Starkville. A reception will be held at the Colvard Student Union Bill Foster Ballroom U, following the ceremony.
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