Posts Tagged ‘Gregg Kennedy’

Smithville bypass unlikely any time soon

by Ted Carter Published: February 1,2013

Tags: Gregg Kennedy, severe weather, Smithville, tornado

Smithville need not fret over the prospect that a Mississippi Highway 25 bypass will leave the town’s Central Business District to decay and die. At least not for a couple more decades, says Bill Jamison, Northern District engineer for the Mississippi Department of Transportation. Federal and state money is unlikely to be available for realigning [...] [...]

Smithville transitions from devastation to setting vision for future

by Ted Carter Published: February 1,2013

Tags: Gregg Kennedy, severe weather, Smithville, tornadoes

On April 27, 2011, the people of Northeast Mississippi’s tiny farming town of Smithville could hardly see a future beyond the next 24 hours. Today, the survivors of one of the deadliest tornadoes to strike Mississippi are looking nearly 20 years ahead at the Smithville of 2030. The one-time trading post has been framing a [...] [...]

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