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County changes garbage disposal location
By DEMETRIUS THOMPSON
Tue,08/29/17-11:20AM , 1,213 Reads
The Newton County Board of Supervisors voted to approve a bid from Waste Pro for a dumping site landfill in Kemper County at their Aug. 1 meeting. The supervisors accepted bids for transport from several contractors but agreed to continue picking up garbage with county trucks.
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Area to see solar eclipse on Monday
By DEMETRIUS THOMPSON
Tue,08/29/17-11:19AM , 1,107 Reads
Union Elementary and Middle School students will get a chance to join hundreds of millions of people around the world in watching the first solar eclipse that will be viewable in North America in 16 years.
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Newton County’s jobless rate rises in June
By DEMETRIUS THOMPSON
Tue,08/29/17-11:18AM , 10,473 Reads
The unemployment rate for Newton County rose from 5.6 percent in May to 6.4 percent in June.

Newton County was tied for the 35th lowest jobless rate in the state along with Marion, Tunica and Webster counties. The rate for Newton County was the lowest for June since 2007 when it stood at 6.3.
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Despite cuts, schools moving forward
By DEMETRIUS THOMPSON
Tue,08/29/17-11:17AM , 1,789 Reads
Students all across the county are in the midst of their second full week of school but local school boards, county boards of supervisors and city boards of aldermen are already in the process of making decisions that will affect students for the next seven months.
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