City planners descend on Starkville for charrette
A similar, if not the same, team of urban planners, architects, marketing analysts and other experts that visited Columbus in 2009 and West Point in 2010 will turn its focus to Starkville over the course of this week. And they all want to meet you.
Maben sets sights on new city hall
Maben has saved up enough to buy a new city hall.
Hearing eases some Oktibbeha redistricting concerns
Golden Triangle planners have eased the concerns of some black voters wary of Oktibbeha County’s supervisor redistricting plan.
Monday profile: The men who make the grass grow
Bruce Harris, athletic field supervisor with the Starkville Parks and Recreation Department, says the Bermuda grass at the Sportsplex is coming back to life right on time and should be fully green within a month. But the green comes at a price.
MSU fine arts students show final work
Graduating seniors in the Mississippi State University Bachelor of Fine Arts program will show their work March 29 through April 8.
Starkville woman speaks out against cemetery fence’s removal
The removal of the fence around Odd Fellows Cemetery has one Starkville woman feeling her son’s grave is exposed.
Knowing your food, from the farmer to market
Mississippi State University students took an agriculture pop quiz Thursday that came straight from the top.
Firm to help Starkville improve efficiency, cut costs
Starkville officials are expecting increased efficiency to save the city more than the $5,000 fee it has contracted to pay annually for the municipal version of sabermetrics, a method of managing used in professional baseball based on objective statistics.
Camera catches Starkville man arrested on burglary charges
A Starkville man out on bond for robbery was picked up again Monday for burglary.
Starkville man jailed on meth charges
A call to the Oktibbeha County Sheriff Department landed a Starkville man in jail for manufacturing methamphetamines Friday.
New home for Oktibbeha Schools to be ready in July
Everyone is ready for the opening of Oktibbeha County School District’s new central office.
MSU Ragtime Festival highlights to air on MPB
Mississippi Public Broadcasting viewers will have an opportunity to relive the sights and sounds of the 2010 Charles Templeton Ragtime Jazz Festival when a special produced by the Mississippi State University Television Center airs March 24.
Building for the future: New MSU facility to nurture spinoff companies
The businesses and the technology of tomorrow are both getting a new home in Starkville. Half of Mississippi’s congressional delegation was in Starkville on Monday for the groundbreaking on a new 20,000-square-foot building at the Thad Cochran Research, Technology and Economic Development Park.
Oktibbeha supervisors hold off on redistricting vote
A skeptical crowd was loud enough to push county redistricting back several weeks at Monday’s meeting of the Oktibbeha County Board of Supervisors.
City of Starkville to revive bus system
Mass transit, vanishing research dollars and record enrollment were all on Mississippi State University President Mark Keenum’s mind Friday during his quarterly roundtable meeting on campus with Starkville and Oktibbeha government types. Members of MSU’s faculty are currently working on a proposal which would return buses to the streets of Starkville for the first time in five years.
Oktibbeha leaders weigh impact of House redistricting
As plans to increase the number of Mississippi House districts in Oktibbeha County from four to six make their way through the Legislature — and possibly into court — local leaders say they’d prefer fewer, but more won’t bring the house down.
Starkville’s Broadcast Media wins awards
Broadcast Media Group of Starkville recently won five Addy awards, including Best of Show for Broadcast, at the American Advertising Federation’s annual awards celebration in Greenville.
Starkville alderman speaks out against expenditures
A Starkville alderman seized on a seemingly routine point of business Tuesday to make a point about expenditures.
Starkville aldermen consider opposing redistricting plan
Starkville’s Board of Aldermen will tell the state House of Representatives what it thinks of the House’s proposed redistricting plan tonight.
MSU grad student worried about family’s future in Libya
It’s been 15 days since Radi Sherif last spoke to his family, or anyone, in Libya, and he has no idea what to expect the next time he gets through. The uprising in Libya has touched almost every facet of the 47-year-old Mississippi State University grad student’s life.