New businesses sweeten ‘dessert town’ Starkville

In a time when companies across the country are struggling to survive, a handful of new businesses in Starkville are thriving, thanks in part to the city’s collective taste for sweets.

In the swing of things: Starkville group raises funds for parks

Starkville’s Junior Auxiliary group recently completed yet another improvement project at a city park.

Starkville restaurant robbed at gunpoint

Starkville police are searching for a man who robbed a McDonald’s Wednesday morning on Highway 12.

Starkville K-9 unit makes drug arrests

A Starkville man was arrested over the weekend with approximately 22 grams of crack cocaine.

Starkville aldermen interview for technology head

The Starkville Board of Aldermen Tuesday night took another step toward upgrading the city’s Information Technology Department.

Starkville celebrates King’s legacy with march

The march began on Dr. D.L. Conner Drive, just north of Highway 182. There were preachers and politicians, elementary school students and sorority sisters.

Volunteers clean up Starkville on MLK Day of Service

Since members of the former Oktibbeha County chapter of the American Red Cross started a new non-profit emergency response organization last year, the group has worked out of the living room of former Red Cross Director Becky Wilkes.

Starkville Aldermen set goals for 2011

The Starkville Board of Aldermen held its annual planning retreat this weekend and set several new goals for the coming year.

Sturgis South rally moved to October

STURGIS — For the last few years, crowds at the Sturgis South Motorcycle Rally in southwestern Oktibbeha County have decreased steadily.

Convicted killer attacks Oktibbeha sheriff

A man convicted of killing four people in the early 1990s attacked Oktibbeha County Sheriff Dolph Bryan and a jailer Wednesday in the Oktibbeha County Courthouse annex.

Starkville woman’s birthday lunch blossoms into banquet for more than 100

Eleven years ago, Minnie Fox fixed a big, wholesome meal for deputies and other employees of the Oktibbeha County Sheriff’s Office. Fast forward to 2011. Fox’s annual birthday feast has outgrown the Sheriff’s Office, and about 100 people typically show up.

Arizona shooting has local officials reviewing security

The recent shooting of a congresswoman and 19 others at a supermarket in Arizona has caused local politicians and law enforcement officials to look at ways to improve security for the Golden Triangle’s elected leaders.

More qualify for Oktibbeha elections

Nearly a half dozen Oktibbeha County residents have qualified this week for the county elections set to take place later this year.

Starkville planning commission approves condo plan

The Starkville planning and zoning commission Tuesday approved the conditional use request of a developer who wants to build condominiums in a portion of the former Borden milk plant.

West Point approves water, sewer rate hike

WEST POINT — Customers of West Point Water and Light Department are in for a rate increase.

The West Point Board of Selectmen Tuesday approved water and sewer rate hikes for residential and commercial Water and Light Department customers, both inside and outside the city limits.

Condos may come to former Borden plant in Starkville

Tabor Construction and Development has spent more than a year renovating the former Borden milk plant at the corner of Montgomery and Lampkin Streets for restaurant, retail and storage space. Now, the Starkville-based company is hoping to add condominiums to the massive, two-story structure.

Former graphic artist switches careers, opens one-chair barbershop

Working in the corporate world, Mark Tribble saw firsthand how quickly jobs can disappear.

Tribble was a graphic artist for Bryan Foods in West Point until the company shut its doors several years ago and, already in his 40s, he found himself unemployed. He then faced a dilemma: Begin a new career as a barber, or become a mortician.

‘Several’ wrecks as snow, sleet fall on Starkville

Approximately two inches of snow, sleet and freezing rain fell on Starkville this weekend, causing accidents, closures and other headaches for local residents.

Starkville mayor says he’ll veto sidewalk exemptions

Starkville Mayor Parker Wiseman on Friday issued a notice of intent to veto amendments to the city’s sidewalk ordinance, passed Tuesday by the Starkville Board of Aldermen.

‘Bring on the snow:’ Locals prepare for possible storm

With weather forecasters predicting a winter storm today capable of dropping up to eight inches of snow on the Golden Triangle, shoppers flooded local stores Saturday to pick up last-minute provisions.