Insurance rates for Lamar County employees will remain essentially the same for the upcoming fiscal year, according to a renewal plan presented to the Board of Supervisors last week.
Automobile mechanics students who graduate from the Lamar County Career and Technical Education Center in Purvis already have a jump on other young mechanics looking for jobs.
They are certified.
The two candidates for the newly-redrawn Lamar County School District C are hoping for a good turnout for today’s election, each hoping to gain a majority of the district’s 6,171 registered voters.
Lamar County officials can no longer provide “waste dirt” to residents as fill material, according to a State Attorney General’s opinion last week.
Lamar County hopes to take advantage of the Rural Fire Truck Acquisition Assistance Program, which received a $4.5 million boost after Gov. Phil Bryant signed Senate Bill 2467 on April 13.
Seraphina, the sulcata tortoise from the Hattiesburg Zoo, visited Moore’s Bike Shop for the ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday afternoon of the store’s new mural of animals that live across the street. Store owner James Moore looked down.
The Hattiesburg City Council voted Tuesday to uphold the Planning Commission’s March 17 denial of a zoning request for 49 lots in a Ward 1 subdivision, and then decided to set zoning for the area to require smaller homes for the lots.
Have a lot of junk you’ve been needing to get rid of? Between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday, April 21, the cities of Petal and Hattiesburg, Forrest County and other partnering governmental and community agencies will host the “Right Way to Throw Away Day” at two locations – Bobby L.
Thirteen Benedict Day School seventh-graders have spent the past few months putting their ideas into practice. Now, they are practicing their roles as young entrepreneurs by turning those projects into marketable products and services.
The suspect who allegedly shot a Hattiesburg police officer Monday morning is now in custody.... READ MORE
Members of the Forrest County Board of Supervisors will take under advisement a State Aid road... READ MORE
