Hamm clarified that the $31,500 reported earlier in the Independent Appeal included the lights and that the field only cost $25,000.

“All you have to do is love to play and show up,” stated Ronnie Brooks, McNairy County Circuit Court Clerk and Director of the Community Band. Over twenty performed Saturday at the new Farmers Market Pavillion in Selmer.  

Dancing with the McNairy Stars 2011 Saturday raised more than the $23,000 raised at last year’s event, according to director Luke DeLaVergne, though the official tally was not yet completed as of press time.

The Rockabilly Festival is set to take place on Saturday, June 11, this year, Russell Ingle told the Selmer Mayor and Board of Aldermen at last Tuesday’s meeting.

McNairy Regional Hospital in joining the American Nurses Association in celebrating nursing excellence during National Nurses Week held every year May 6-12.

Jacob Prather, of Ramer, has had diabetes since he was a child, but rather than slowing him down, it has motivated him to take a 62-mile ride to raise money for diabetes research.

Selmer native Jenny Bledsoe has been honored with the University of Tennessee Torchbearer award, the highest honor a UT student can receive.