Articles by Carl Smith
Hall of Fame induction helps cap coaching career for Friend
After decades of coaching, about 250 wins and multiple state championships, Chuck Friend says he wouldn’t change a thing about his football coaching career since success comes each time he prepares a new class of young men for life’s challenges.
Open meetings defense: Wynn misspoke
Starkville is defending itself from under-the-table collusion claims by attesting its mayor and seven aldermen do not conduct secret meetings or know how other board members will vote prior to meetings, all while painting the complainant as a political dissident.
SSD projects slight millage increase for FY 2014-2015
Starkville School District officials project the system will require a 65.24-mill tax levy to operate under its Fiscal Year 2014-2015 budget, a slight increase from FY 2012-2013’s and FY 2013-2014’s 62.96-mill rate.
Starkville wins two Main Street awards
The Mississippi Main Street Association awarded its Best New Signage and Best New Development Project awards to Starkville last week for two visible projects in the downtown area.
West Point man arrested for alleged armed robbery
Starkville officers arrested a 28-year-old West Point resident Thursday after he allegedly broke into an Old West Point Road home and robbed its owner by gunpoint last week.
Auditors give Starkville a clean report, find no significant defects
Starkville received a clean Fiscal Year 2013-2014 audit from the Mississippi-based accounting firm Watkins, Ward and Stafford on Tuesday.
Golden Triangle celebrates Juneteenth
Two Golden Triangle cities will host events Saturday marking Juneteenth, the annual celebration of the abolishment of slavery and the emancipation of African Americans.
Starkville alderman Vaughn arrested for DUI
Starkville Ward 7 Alderman Henry Vaughn was arrested by Oktibbeha County Sheriff’s Department deputies early Thursday morning and charged with a DUI , no insurance and careless driving.
LINK seeks $10M to jumpstart new Oktibbeha industrial site
Golden Triangle Development LINK CEO Joe Max Higgins has a plan to kick start economic development in Oktibbeha County: open a new 300-plus-acre industrial park that will become the local focal point for manufacturing jobs and erase years of failed industrial enticement.
LINK unveils plans for ‘communiversity’
Golden Triangle Development LINK officials on Wednesday unveiled plans for a $38 million facility that will increase East Mississippi Community College’s workforce development capabilities and help position the area as a manufacturing powerhouse.
Starkville icon Carole McReynolds Davis dead at 72
Local artist Carole Elizabeth McReynolds Davis, 72, a well-known figure known for her paintings of local figures, her iconic Louisville Street home, her boisterous style of dress and exuberant support of her lifelong home of Starkville, died of natural causes Wednesday.
Starkville approves planning items for chain restaurants
Aldermen unanimously passed planning items Tuesday that will allow national fast food chains Panda Express and Sonic to offer new or more services in Starkville.
Starkville police chief graduates from FBI academy
Starkville police Chief Frank Nichols was among 220 law enforcement agents to graduate Friday from the FBI National Academy Program in Quantico, Va.
MSU’s Kibler set to lead Sul Ross State University
Bill Kibler, Mississippi State University vice president for student affairs, is expected to take over as president of Texas-based Sul Ross State University before fall semester after he was recently named the position’s sole finalist.
Road house ordinance talks could be delayed until July
Oktibbeha County supervisors may not have an opportunity to discuss a potential ordinance mandating safer night club rules until July as officials travel to the coast this week for a conference.
Starkville police investigating Twitter accounts
Starkville Police Department launched a new investigation last month into a Twitter account parodying an elected official, court documents show, but investigators say the case is not active or moving forward at this time.
School board rewards administrators with raises
Citing high evaluations and increased workloads associated with 2015’s upcoming school consolidation, Starkville School District Board of Trustees members approved 5-percent raises for Superintendent Lewis Holloway and Assistant Superintendents Toriano Holloway and Jody Woodrum following closed-door discussions Tuesday.
Arrests made in Starkville shooting death
Anthony Lamar Williams, of 1200 Louisville St., Apartment C1, has been charged with murder.
Man shot dead at Starkville apartments
The Starkville Police Department is investigating a daylight shooting at Louisville Street Apartments that killed 27-year-old Tyrell Deshon Gillespie, of 1447 Blair Road, Wednesday.
Almost half of Oktibbeha officials’ 2013 economic filings missing
Personal economic filings for 2013 are unavailable on the Mississippi Ethics Commission’s website for nine of 20 elected Oktibbeha County officials, a survey of the site showed Wednesday.
