POLITICAL CARTOON - 10.19.17
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Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:59am
CFFC to offer paper puppet-making classes
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Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:57am
The Coleman Center for Families and Children (CFFC) is typically bustling with activities designed to engage and teach children of all ages. A new program at the center will focus specifically on increasing social and emotional maturity in children.
Rotary Club aims to ‘End Polio Now’
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Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:56am
The Petal Rotary Club will join members across the globe in promoting awareness, raising funds and offering support to end Polio, which is a vaccine-preventable disease that still threatens children in parts of the world, on World Polio Day 2017.
City gears up for annual Fall Festival, concert
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Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:55am
Country music group Lonestar is bringing their show back to South Mississippi with a performance at Petal’s annual Fall Festival.
The show is just one stop on the band’s “Life As We Know It” tour that began earlier this year, which features hits from the bands latest album. “Never Enders” is the band’s 10th album.
School district encourages Pine Belt to ‘Remember Everyone Deployed’
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Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:54am
Red is one of the Petal School District’s school colors, but this year it means a little more in the Friendly City. Petal is encouraging everyone in the district to “Think Red,” which is the theme for the 2017-18 school year.
However, the theme will go beyond “Think Red: Prepared, Inspired, Empowered.”
Petal, H'burg join together to host ‘Bridging the Leaf’
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Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:52am
Petal and Hattiesburg will be joining other Pine Belt entities when the Fourth of July rolls around.
A fireworks extravaganza, Bridging the Leaf, is set for Tuesday, July 3, at both the Petal River Park on the east side and Chain Park on the west side of the Leaf River.
District encourages community support with tax credit donations
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Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:51am
It’s nearing that time again.
Through the Mississippi Early Learning Collaborative legislation, support for a Mississippi Department of Education approved early learning collaborative could make individuals and corporations eligible for a 1:1 state tax credit for a donated amount up to $1 million.
Emergency responders partner with MSOL
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Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:47am
The Petal Police and Fire Departments took part in a railroad safety blitz event with Mississippi Operation Lifesaver (MSOL). The event took place Wednesday, Oct. 18 and was designed to bring awareness to the dangers associated with highway-rail grade crossings.
School Board approves $1.2M for buses
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Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:43am
Fifteen new school buses will be added to the Lamar County School District’s fleet after the Board of Trustees approved spending more than $1.2 million on the vehicles.
Superintendent Tess Smith said the new buses are welcome additions to the district.
County’s annual growth surpasses state average
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Thu, 10/19/2017 - 10:41am
Lamar County is growing annually at about 1.7 percent, much higher than the state average, a regional planning official told the Lamar County Board of Supervisors earlier this week.
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