By REGGIE ROSS Staff Writer The Grenada City Council has hired La’Keylah White as the new city manager. The action comes a day after Trey Baker announced that he was leaving the job after nearly three years. In a 6-1 vote, made in executive session, the city council approved White to start as city manager…

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Staff Report Grenada City Manager Trey Baker may be leaving Grenada to take job with a presidential candidate. Informed sources have told the GrenadaStar that Baker has been offered a position in the campaign of presidential candidate Joe Biden. Sources say Baker has been offered the position of National Director for African American Engagement. Mayor…

By REGGIE ROSS Staff Writer   The case of City Councilman Joshua Hughes is set to go to trial this week in Grenada County Circuit Court. According to the updated circuit court calendar, Hughes, the Ward Five Grenada City Councilman, is expected to go to trial on four charges beginning Thursday. Hughes, who is represented…

By REGGIE ROSS Staff Writer The 2019 Primary Elections are in the books, but a runoff election in three week will determine who voters will chose for and statewide offices in the November General Election. The runoff election is scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 27, in three of the county wide Democratic races of sheriff, constable…

13 of 13 Precincts Reporting Absentee Ballots Included UNOFFICIAL RESULTS Absentee Ballots and Affidavits not included REPUBLICAN TICKET:  Grenada County Circuit Clerk: Victoria Gillon Blaylock: 602 Tange James: 886 DEMOCRATIC TICKET: Chancery Clerk: Johnny L. Hayward: 3799 Trebia Rodgers: 1112 County Coroner: Sharonda Mister: 1463 Eddie ‘Skeeter’ Robinson: 1202 Douglas ‘Little Bobby’ Yates: 2295 Grenada County…

One man is dead and another is injured following a Monday night shooting in the 1000 block of Martin Luther King Boulevard in Grenada. According to the Grenada Police Department, the shooting happened shortly after 11 p.m., and when they arrived, they discovered two men shot. A man the police department identified as Isiah Perry,…

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By REGGIE ROSS Four people remain hospitalized this afternoon, and the Grenada County Sheriff’s Department in currently trying to get to the bottom of the Saturday night shootings that injured them. Grenada County Sheriff Alton Strider has not released the names of the victims, saying that “it’s early in the investigation and no one has been…

DEVELOPING STORY Four people were shot Saturday at a location on Halls Road in Grenada County, sources tell the GrenadaStar. The shooting was before midnight, but conditions of the victims are not known at this time. According to sources, two victims were transported by ambulance to UMMC-Grenada, and both were transferred by helicopter to other…