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Oxford tackles city’s white tail deer population

Wally Northway — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 00:17:47 +0000

The City of Oxford’s white tail deer management plan, which allows bow hunting within the city limits, is just completing its third year, and while the program is still battling some growing pains, the city’s “deer guy” says the program appears to be showing some returns. “We’re still waiting on hard numbers from this year’s [...]

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East chosen as chief

MBJ Staff — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 06:46:58 +0000

Joey East is the new police chief in Oxford. East, the city’s assistant chief, was named to the post effective Feb. 1. East is the son of Lafayette County sheriff F.D. “Buddy” East. East will succeed Mike Martin, who is retiring. Martin was named police chief in September of 2007. The 42-year-old East has been [...]

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Thornton retires as assessor

MBJ Staff — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:16:04 +0000

After working in the Lafayette County Tax Assessor-Collector’s Office for 38 years, Martha Thornton says she will spend her retirement performing the important job of being a grandma. Thornton was elected to the first of three terms as assessor 12 years ago. Before that she had worked in the assessor’s office for 26 years. Thornton [...]

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Waller eulogized as transformative Miss. governor

Associated Press — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:06:18 +0000

JACKSON — Former Mississippi Gov. William Waller Sr. was remembered Saturday as a transformative figure who helped the state move beyond its segregationist politics during his tenure from 1972 to 1976. More than 1,000 people attended Waller’s funeral at First Baptist Church in downtown Jackson. Hundreds more streamed through the Capitol rotunda earlier in the [...]

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Lafayette County to pay off all outstanding bonds

Associated Press — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:58:23 +0000

OXFORD — The Lafayette County Board of Supervisors is planning to pay off all outstanding bond debt and lower property taxes. The decision was made this past week to spend $10 million of the $30 million gained from the sale of Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi to pay off all outstanding bonds for the county. The [...]

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