The Newton County tennis and soccer programs will be well represented at East Central Community College last year.
Joel Hill signed to play soccer at East Central while Ali Grace Walker signed to play both tennis and soccer at ECCC.
Lake’s baseball season came to a screeching halt last week as Calhoun City swept the Hornets in the second round of the Class 2A playoffs.
Calhoun City took Game 1 of the series 8-3 and finished off the series with a 9-2 win on Saturday.
Lake finished the season with a 21-9 record. Calhoun City advances to take on East Union.
The No. 17 ranked East Central Community College baseball team bounced back from a pair of midweek losses with a couple of run-rule wins over the Elaine P. Nunez Community College Pelicans Saturday, April 28, at Clark-Gay Baseball Complex in Decatur.
The Newton Board of Aldermen has set a special election to fill the vacancy left after Ward 4 Alderman Ray Payne was killed in a car crash on April 17.
The ECCC softball team will host Hinds Community College in a Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges best-of-three first-round state playoff series Friday and Saturday, April 27-28, at the Softball Park on campus.
Michael Hillie holds a special place for Ray Payne.
Hillie, who is serving his eighth term on the Newton Board of Aldermen, sees similarities of himself in Payne, who was elected to his first full term last year.
The Union Chamber of Commerce has announced plans to host a new festival for the City of Union this Father’s Day weekend.
At a recent meeting, the chamber’s board of directors approved scheduling the inaugural Union Day on June 16 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Newton County Chapter of the NAACP will host its annual Freedom Fund Banquet at 6 p.m. Saturday, May 5 at East Central Community College in Decatur. The keynote speaker for the event will be Nola Bryant, superintendent of the Newton Municipal School District.
The Newton County Board of Supervisors approved changing the pay scale for new dispatcher hires at their regular meeting on Thursday.
911 and Emergency Management Director Brian Taylor suggested the change after analyzing the pay scale for the current dispatchers. Taylor said the change will provide more structure for future hires.
The Newton Board of Aldermen moved foward with an agreement with Verizon Wireless to add a new cell tower in downtown Newton.
