By REGGIE ROSS Staff Writer   The election date for the one percent tourism tax increase has been set, and city voters will go to the polls on Tuesday, Oct. 2. The decision to set the date was passed unanimously by the Grenada City Council at their regularly scheduled meeting. Ward Five City Councilman Joshua…

By REGGIE ROSS Staff Writer   The Tallahatchie County Board of Supervisors has appointed a new sheriff following the resignation of William Brewer. The Tallahatchie Board appointed Jimmy Fly as the new sheriff, according to personnel with the sheriff’s department. Brewer resigned last Tuesday after spending the weekend in a Lafayette County Jail. In court,…

By REGGIE ROSS Staff Writer A week after the qualifying window opened for two local leadership seats, no one has yet to throw their name into the arena. According to Grenada County Circuit Clerk Michele Redditt-Garcia, qualifying papers are available for anyone seeking to run for District Four School Board Seat and the District Four…

By REGGIE ROSS Staff Writer After 20-plus years as sheriff of Tallahatchie County, William Brewer has resigned amid federal charges against him. According to his attorney, Kevin Horan of Grenada, Brewer resigned from the position Tuesday afternoon in the federal courthouse in Oxford. “It was in the best interest to let this proceed and move…

By REGGIE ROSS Staff Writer   The Grenada Tourism Commission recently set its budget for the next fiscal year and granted funding for some of the area’s biggest festivals and tournaments. The tourism commission set the 2018-19 budget at $261,767, and it was finalized by a motion from Commissioner Steve Robinson and a second from…

By REGGIE ROSS Staff Writer   A Grenada man was set free following a not guilty verdict on a murder charge in circuit court Thursday. A Grenada County Jury only took 10 minutes to find Gregory Meeks, 46, not guilty in connection with the 2016 stabbing death of Floyd Golliday. Tarik Johnson and Neal Marlow,…

News Release   OXFORD –William C. Lamar, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, and Christopher Freeze, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI in Mississippi, announced today that the Sheriff of Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, has been arrested on federal narcotics trafficking and extortion charges. William Brewer, 58, a resident of Oakland, Miss.,…

By REGGIE ROSS Staff Writer   City officials have ended the clothing drive which assisted victims of last month’s fire at Dogwood Park Apartments. Since the July 23 fire, the community responded in great numbers to assist the 11 families displaced by the blaze that destroyed two units of the apartment complex. According to City…

By REGGIE ROSS Staff Writer   The Grenada County Board of Supervisors will pay $1.1 million to settle a lawsuit against the former Grenada Lake Medical Center, but according to one county official, it won’t cost the taxpayers one cent. The United States Justice Department recently the settled will resolve a False Claims Act allegations…

Grenada Railroad LLC has been acquired by Boca Raton, Florida-based International Rail Partners LLC from Iowa Pacific Holdings LLC. Grenada Railroad operates a rail line serving the 212 miles between Memphis and Canton, Miss., and transports about 10,000 freight carloads each year.  The sale took place Aug. 2, sources said.  According to the company, Grenada’s…