Plans for new plant OK’d
Plans for the new, highly anticipated Olin-Winchester facility were approved unanimously during the Lafayette County Planning Commissions regular meeting Tuesday night. The new facility will be built south of County Road 166, the entrance into the park, and on the west side of the existing facility where land is already being cleared. (December 29, 2010, Page 1)
Squirrels causing power outages throughout Oxford
When the lights flicker, it could mean another grey squirrel has lost his life on a power line in Oxford. Squirrels cause $10-$15,000 in damages each year despite City of Oxford’s Electric Department’s best efforts to keep them away. (December 29, 2010, Page 1)
Wednesday’s obituaries
- Kay Gunter Brewer — 73, died Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010, at Baptist Memorial Hospital–North Mississippi in Oxford. Memorial services were held Monday at Gunter & Peel Funeral Home in Columbus.
- Sue Lauderdale Lomax — 82, died Monday, Dec. 27, 2010, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi in Oxford. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Coleman Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in the Oxford Memorial Cemetery. Visitation will be held for two hours prior to the service at the funeral home.
Ole Miss women’s hoops at Tennessee
11 a.m. (CSS) (December 29, 2010)
Ole Miss women’s hoops vs. Vanderbilt
2 p.m. (December 29, 2010)
“O” Town Showdown
Oxford’s annual “O” Town Showdown basketball tournament kicks off today. Below is the complete schedule.
Admission is $5 per day. (more…) (December 29, 2010)
“O” Town Showdown schedule
Oxford’s annual “O” Town Showdown basketball tournament kicks off today. Below is the complete schedule. (more…) (December 29, 2010)
Lady Rebels’ trip to NJ grounded
The Ole Miss women’s basketball team was supposed to be participating in the St. Peters’ Holiday Classic basketball tournament today and tomorrow in Jersey City, N.J.
Instead, because of winter weather travel mishaps involving the Northeast that are being felt by more than just the Ole Miss basketball program, the Lady Rebels will put their new Basketball Practice Facility to good use and prepare for their Southeastern Conference Championship home opener on Sunday against Vanderbilt.
Originally scheduled to leave out of Memphis for Jersey City on Monday evening, the trip was officially nixed Tuesday just before 10 a.m. (December 29, 2010, Page 6)
Let’s be reasonable with those resolutions
Have you decided on any New Year’s resolutions? With only a couple of days to go before 2011 hits, Editor Don Whitten makes a few suggestions including resolutions about eating, exercising, reading, voting – and writing letters to the editor. (December 29, 2010, Page 4)
Letters to the Editor
Alan Lamb writes, tongue only partly in cheek, to ask if anyone else has noticed the lack of working turn signals on automobiles in Oxford and wonders if there shouldn’t be a protest about the slight. (December 29, 2010, Page 4)
