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Board of Elections
SIDNEY The Shelby County Board of Elections will meet Monday, May 17, at 9 a.m. at the board office. The board will be certifying the May 4 election results in addition to normal business items.
Shelby County Board of DD
SIDNEY The Shelby County Board of Developmental Disabilities will meet Monday, May 17, at noon at the office, 1200 S. Children’s Home Road. The meeting will be in person and via Zoom.
Items on the agenda include presentation of administrative reports by support services director, community education and outreach director, early childhood director and early intervention director.
HOUSTON Former Houston Deputy Clerk Kathy Smith was booked into the Chickasaw County Jail Friday morning, Feb. 26, on one count of embezzlement, according to jail records.
Municipal elections are just around the corner and the number of elected police chiefs in Mississippi dropped by nearly 20 percent in recent months.
In November, the Houston Board of Aldermen voted to make its top cop position appointed. Earlier this month, the aldermen in Forest, located in Scott County, did the same thing.
There are 275 police chiefs across the state, according to the Mississippi Association of Chiefs of Police. Of that total, there are now just nine (3.2 percent) who are elected. The remaining elected police chief positions are in Aberdeen, Amory, Baldwyn, Brookhaven, Corinth, Iuka, Nettleton, New Albany and Okolona.