Blackjack, Poor House roads receive state funding for construction
The long-delayed Blackjack Road repair project will receive its final portion of funding from the state after the Oktibbeha County supervisors unanimously voted to accept $500,000 in general obligation bonds at a special-call meeting Friday.
Locksley, Blackjack multi-use path projects underway
Work has started on a $1 million project to build multi-use pathways from Montgomery Street to MSU’s campus.
County investments materialize in 2014 as Oktibbeha readies for industrial park
Oktibbeha County’s improving economy can be informally measured by a number of new buildings reaching to the sky and workers turning dirt at bustling projects, but the sale of bonds for the area’s best bet for significant economic development — a new industrial park — won’t occur until next year.
Here’s a look at five of Oktibbeha County’s biggest economic development stories from 2014:
Deputies investigating Blackjack community homicide
Oktibbeha County deputies are investigating the death of a resident after the victim was seriously assaulted Sunday in the Blackjack community.