The property in the Lumberton School District was undervalued for insurance purposes, and Lamar County school and insurance officials doubled its value as the Lamar County School Board approved insurance for next school year at the recent school board meeting.
Lamar County schools, which now includes three Lumberton facilities, will be able to use a new payment feature and have set registrations for the 2018-19 school year, which begins July 1.
Lamar County School Board Attorney Rick Norton told board members during their meeting last week the judge who considered the complaint against the Lumberton-Lamar County school consolidation had ruled in favor of the Lamar County School District.
Teachers in the Lamar County School District will see a small increase in pay for the next school year compared to the 2017-18 session, according to the pay scale approved by the district’s Board of Trustees at last week’s meeting.
Eight Oak Grove High School students will be traveling to Las Vegas next week as members of the award-winning Mississippi Lions Band after practicing this week at Pearl River Community College in Poplarville.
An Oak Grove company has appealed a 10th District Chancery Court ruling involving a 16th Section Lands lease that allows the Lamar County School Board to charge fair market value for renting the property to the Mississippi Supreme Court, although the lease sets 60-day windows for reappraisals on the 10th, 20th and 30th anniversaries.
After recent town hall meetings to provide updates on Lamar County’s Comprehensive Plan, county officials are still trying to convince residents that a piece of property near the Canebrake subdivision is not being zoned for a Walmart.
Long before graduating from Oak Grove High School last month, Paul Anderson had decided that he wanted to go into the military. His father, Chuck Anderson, is a U.S. Army major at Camp Shelby.
He also wanted to go to one of the nation’s five service academies, but he wasn’t sure which one.
The Lamar County School District will hold a public hearing on its proposed budget for fiscal year 2018-19 on June 21, proposing an increased revenue from ad valorem taxes of almost $1.5 million.
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