City Board requiring Civil Service

Commissioners to appear before them regarding

allegations made by former fire chief Vernell Felder

The McComb city board instructed City administrator Quordiniah Lockley to draft a letter ordering Civil Service commissioners to appear at its board meeting on Tuesday, August 10th to discuss the decision by two of the three member commission not to allow former fire chief Vernell Felder to return to the department as a captain.

This Saturday at 7 pm at McComb High School the Pike County Iron Horse semi-pro football team will put its 1-1 record on the line when it hosts the Jackson Juggernauts (2-0) in the 1st Annual I-55 Classic.

This is the first season of the first ever professional football team in Pike County. The regular season is 10 weeks, playoffs 2 weeks, followed by championship game, which ends the season.

“The Woman” offers a response…

I want the community to know the details of the series of events which I witnessed that resulted in the mistrial of the Honorable Mayor Zach Patterson’s lawsuit.

The trial began on Monday, July 19, and was still in progress on the afternoon of July 20. However, from the eyes of “The Woman” sitting in the third row ahead of Norman Gillis, an attorney and member of the Mississippi Bar, the events of the afternoon are quite different than those depicted in his statement.

Mission Pike County sponsors a weekly Community Prayer hosted by local churches each Thursday morning at 7:00 AM.

Everyone is invited to attend this approximately half hour prayer service to pray for the country, national, state and local government, community concerns, reconciliation of race and church denominations, and individual prayer requests.