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Owner Joe Brown stands amid the flooded-out interior of Joe’s Sports Bar on Carrollton Avenue. Burglars cut a hole in the roof to enter the building on Saturday night, then exited through a steel-reinforced back door that they wrenched from the frame.

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Burglars hit Carrollton Ave. businesses
By KATHRYN EASTBURN - Staff Writer

Wed,11/30/16-1:00PM , 118 Reads
The holidays are off to a rough start for businesses on and around the Carrollton Avenue corridor that have been burglarized over the past couple of weeks.

Thieves entered Joe’s Sports Bar at 307 Carrollton Avenue through the roof sometime overnight on Saturday, according to business owner Joe Brown.
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Kawanis Collins, left, Ryan White Program coordinator at Greenwood Leflore Hospital, and Dietriche Jones, nurse practitioner at Magnolia Medical Clinic, are helping to coordinate the World AIDS Day awareness event in Greenwood Friday.

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Free tests offered on AIDS Day
By KATHRYN EASTBURN - Staff Writer

Wed,11/30/16-1:00PM , 151 Reads
Greenwood and Leflore County residents can get free and confidential testing for HIV on Friday at the World AIDS Day event at Magnolia Medical Clinic.
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County asked to repair bridge
By KATHRYN EASTBURN - Staff Writer

Tue,11/29/16-1:00PM , 125 Reads
The Leflore County Board of Supervisors heard an urgent request Monday from several farmers to repair a bridge near Itta Bena that has been closed since August.

State inspectors recommended the bridge be closed at that time for safety purposes.
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The Greenwood-Leflore County Chamber of Commerce welcomed County Line Ranch Supply to the chamber family on Tuesday with a ribbon-cutting. Pictured left to right are Dorothy Robertson, Melissa Nester, Alana Garrett, Debra Hibbler, Jim Nester, Kaitlyn Lollar and Gloria St. Clair. Melissa and Jim Nester are the owners of the business, formerly The Western Store, on U.S. 82 east of Greenwood.

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County Line Ranch Supply open on US 82
By KATHRYN EASTBURN - Staff Writer
Sun,11/27/16-2:42AM , 245 Reads
Husband-and-wife team Melissa and Jim Nester have opened County Line Ranch Supply on U.S. 82, east of the Greenwood city limits, in the site of the former Western Store.

On Tuesday the Chamber of Commerce welcomed the Nesters to its family with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the new business.
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