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Mayor wants $90M for water, sewer improvement contract

Associated Press — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:43:40 +0000

JACKSON — Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr. is pushing the Jackson City Council to approve a $90 million water and sewer improvement contract that project officials guarantee will pay for itself. The Clarion-Ledger reports the project would be a major step toward addressing the city’s water and sewer infrastructure. The project includes four major initiatives: — [...]

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Mayor asks judge to make state give back his money

Associated Press — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:57:56 +0000

SOUTHAVEN — Southaven Mayor Greg Davis has asked a Hinds County judge to return to him the $96,000 he paid to the state amid allegations of misspending city money. The Commercial Appeal reports Davis filed a motion in Hinds County Chancery Court, where he is locked in a dispute with State Auditor Stacey Pickering over [...]

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Pickering turns Surplus Property case over to prosecutors

Associated Press — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:13:36 +0000

BASSFIELD — State Auditor Stacey Pickering has returned 22 pieces of property and equipment improperly obtained by the City of Bassfield to Mississippi’s Surplus Property Division. Pickering says in a news release that items purchased through Surplus Property must be used for local and state government purposes. Pickering says his office determined the items were [...]

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Capital City to pay $400M after dumping sewage in river

Associated Press — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:52:54 +0000

JACKSON — The city of Jackson has agreed to spend $400 million to make sewer improvements and to pay fines to the Environmental Protection Agency for releasing more than 2.8 billion gallons of minimally treated sewage into the Pearl River system over the last four years. The city council approved the consent decree with the [...]

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Justice Department approves city’s annexation plans

Associated Press — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:40:28 +0000

PICAYUNE — Picayune has 800 new residents, and Mayor Ed Pinero plans a meet and greet to welcome them. The U.S. Department of Justice approved the city’s annexation plans last Friday. The city limits expanded west, north and south, including the airport. “It brings in 20 new businesses into the city limits. These businesses wanted [...]

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Town installing solar panels at water well

Associated Press — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 16:39:59 +0000

VAEDAMAN — The town of Vardaman is installing solar panels at one of its three water wells. WCBI-TV reports Norman Griffin of Blue Spectra Solar is providing a 50,000-watt system that will produce about 90,000 kilowatts of electricity a year. Mayor James Casey says Vardaman uses 84,000 kilowatts each year. Casey says the solar panels [...]

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Report: City dumping billions of gallons of sewage into river

Associated Press — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:44:45 +0000

JACKSON — The city of Jackson released more than 2.8 billion gallons of minimally treated sewage — enough to fill four NFL stadiums — into the Pearl River system over the last four years, the Environmental Protection Agency says. Analysis of reports filed with the state Department of Environmental Quality indicate that Jackson bypassed treatment [...]

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One candidate ruled ineligible for Delta mayor’s race

Associated Press — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:37:52 +0000

GREENVILLE — One candidate for Greenville mayor has been disqualified for failing to gather the required number of 50 signatures of registered voters for the Oct. 22 special election ballot. City attorney Andy Alexander tells the Delta Democrat Times Danyelle Singletary-Kimble did not meet qualification requirements. The city election commission certified four others — Carl [...]

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Construction getting underway on new aquatic center

Associated Press — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:12:29 +0000

TUPELO — Work crews are putting up a temporary fence this week around the construction site of Tupelo’s new aquatic center. A groundbreaking was held last Tuesday for the $11 million facility being built near the entrance to Veterans Park. Officials say construction will take about 14 months with a grand opening of the nearly [...]

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Ex-Coast mayor wants judge to toss Katrina fraud plea

Associated Press — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:24:33 +0000

GULFPORT — A former Gulfport mayor is asking a federal judge to throw out his guilty plea almost three years ago to a felony charge of stealing FEMA funds. The plea deal Brent Warr entered into with the government allowed him and his wife to walk out of court with no prison time. The Sun [...]

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