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.

Pike County Iron Horse T-shirts can be picked up at Totsville on Gertman Hill for $10. The shirts will also be sold at the game. Call 601-249-2141 for more info.

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.

The board had requested the commissioners to appear at this week’s Tuesday meeting, but the commission called a special meeting that day and declined the board’s invitation to appear before the board at that meeting. A McComb resident, Albert Eubanks, told the board that he witnessed two of the commissioners, Larry Dorr and Izeal Bennett openly discuss at the Commission’s July 7th meeting how not to allow Felder to come back to the fire department.

Selectman Melvin Joe Johnson disagreed with the reasons given by the commission for declining to come to the board meeting. He referred to the commission’s actions against former fire chief Jean Frye.

Mayor Zach Patterson said that the commissioners will face a summons and not an invitation for the next city board meeting.