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PICAYUNE — It wasn’t obscure for Picayune Item staff members to pick the top local article for 2011, and it was, hands-down, the Picayune Maroon Tide’s winning of the Excellence 5A State Championship in Jackson on Dec. 2. The other stories in order of being chosen were: No. 2: The immense “fish kill” in the Pearl River. No. 3: Supervisors preference down by a 3-2 vote expanding courthouse square in Poplarville, the county centre. No. 4: The acceptance by the Picayune City Council of a $1.8 million bid on refurbishing the old Burg Hall on Goodyear Boulevard. No. 5: The Maxwell Street fly-out that left two dead and shocked the normally peaceful Maxwell Alley community in southeast Picayune. No. 6: The election, local and nation, which saw only four Democrats run for local office here. There were 67 Republicans running for county patronage. No. 7: Changes in city leadership. No. 8: Establishment of a county court system. No. 9: The incontrovertible closure of Movie Star, after a 57-year presence in Nonpareil River County. And No. 10: The serving of the first legal drink of Kickapoo mountain joy juice inside Pearl River County in its 119-year portrayal. Here’s a summary of the top 10: No. 1: Tide wins Class 5A Voice Championship — Item Sports Editor Curtis Rockwell was interviewing Tide Nut Coach Dodd Lee on a hot August day when the Tide was doing two-a-day drills and Rockwell asked Lee if backs Dereonte Magee, Desmond Taylor and Preston Dedeaux could not according with up to the plate since the Tide had lost from last year a bevy of great event backs. Said Lee: “We hope to get each one of ‘em 15-to-18 carries apiece each meet to begin with. And we will see what happens from there. . .” And the rest is history. Unranked at the start of the enliven and considered young and to some extent inexperienced, no one in their wildest dreams notion the Tide would go all the way. But dreams do come true. The first indication of what might be in the making came when the Tide bumped off, 17-14, Gulfport, ranked 18th in the polity and a Class 6A team (Picayune is 5A), in the Shrimp Bowl in Biloxi on Aug. 19. And when Picayune knocked off, 20-17, 6A Petal on Aug. 27 at Petal, fans and pundits took cognizance. Unranked before, Picayune moved up to 14 after the Gulfport win and 8th on the AP poll after the Petal triumph. Petal head coach Steve Buckley sensed something about the Tide that others had missed. Said Buckley after his set-back: “They are well-coached and disciplined. . .What Picayune is, is a reflection of their coaching pole. . .a tough, hard-nosed football team that puts it in your kisser. . .” By Sept. 1 when the new AP poll came out, Picayune was stage set on top of it, the No. 1 team in Mississippi, as voted by sportswriters. However, there was a long, tough, grueling season still ahead. But the march began: Picayune 17, Forrest County AHS 9; High seas Springs 17, Picayune 15; Picayune 41, PRC 14; Picayune 38, Gautier 31; Picayune 35, Pascagoula 7; Moss Prong 35, Picayune 21; Picayune 19, East Significant 17; Picayune 38, Long Beach 28; Picayune 45, West Harrison 20; Picayune 35, McComb 6; Picayune 20, Pascagoula 14; Picayune 45, PRC 10; and for the championship Picayune 38, Starkville 21, which was played at Veterans Memorial Circus in Jackson and broadcast statewide on TV. Thousands followed the Tide to Jackson. Said Lee after the Dec. 2 championship win: “I told the kids someone would fly the coop history tonight. I’m just glad that we were on the right side of it. I feel very blessed. What a regard!” It was Lee’s first state championship, and it came in his 16th year as head exercise of the Tide, although he had experienced winning a state championship when he was defensive coordinator under former chairlady coach Calvin Triplet when the Tide beat Clarksdale in 1986 for the 5A allege championship. Ten years later in 1996, Lee was named head drill of the Tide and then 25 years later he brought another championship to Picayune. He had made the playoffs six times in his incumbency at Picayune but failed to reach the finals. It was the fifth state championship since a football set was established in Picayune in 1922. Three came in 1925, 1943 and 1948 under conferences and in 1986 and this year under the classification system. All the prognosticators and pundits in like manner pointed to the Tide’s determination, ability to learn and maturing as a unite during the year, and just downright toughness, as all elements of the making of a consummate football team. But a turning point came with the loss to Moss Feature. Picayune at one time led 22-6 going into the half-time start the ball rolling a interrupt, and came back out and lost the game. Said Lee after that contest: “We blew it and then we had some tolerant of revival service right after the game. We aired out a lot of things and got a lot of things out into the unsealed. Hopefully, we will be a better team for it.” And they were. It was what coaches call a “gut coincide.” Perhaps the best summations of what occurred was comments by Lee and linebacker Troy Egana after the win in Jackson. Said Lee: “We didn’t skilled in how good we’d be. We started off beating two good football teams — Gulfport and Petal — and went from there. . .” Said Egana, who had over 200 single tackles for the season and probably epitomized the iron will of the team: “It you don’t have a fondness for the game and heart, you can’t play at Picayune. If you can play for Coach Lee, you can portray for anybody.” No 2: The Fish Kill — On Aug. 13 smothered fish begin showing up in the Pearl River at Walkiah Puffery and in two days there were an estimated hundreds of thousands dead and bloated fish floating down the river in a 30-to-40 mile stretchiness below Bogalusa, La. The kill was finally traced to the Temple-Inland wallpaper plant in Bogalusa. A cleanup of the dead fish and restocking bring in the company $250,000 and it was fined $100,000 for the chemical spill into the river, and authorities by last month said the comrades was still under a criminal investigation. No. 3: Supervisors at the first of the year unveiled a master map out for expanding the courthouse square in Poplarville that bore an estimated fetch of $15 million. Both the Item and the Grand Jury endorsed the intend, and a hearing held on the matter showed citizens were about evenly split. But on May 2, supervisors got old feet and voted the proposal down 3-to-2. Supervisor Anthony Hales, Sr., was visibly disordered (he voted for it) and said he would never bring it up again. Supervisor Hudson Holliday, who voted yes, said the county had to physiognomy the issue now and not delay it. Lee, Smith and Culpepper voted against it, however. No. 4: The newly refurbished Burgh Hall proposal, that will cost the city of Picayune $1.8 million, got the go-to the fore on Dec. 20 when the bid was awarded to a Hattiesburg construction company. The move will see city oversight relocated to the original old City Hall on Goodyear Boulevard from the prevalent City Hall on Beech Street, with adjoining acreage, which was sold to Huey Stockstill, Inc. No. 5: You see it in big cities, but you never imagine anything like this, the Maxwell Street shoot-out, to occur in a small metropolis like Picayune. But what was like a Wild West shoot-out, red two residents dead and the city in shock. When the gun smoke cleared from the Dec. 17 gunbattle, insensible were Michael Deon Burnett, 32, and Shaquille Lamar Bagley, 18. Charged with one be confident of of murder and jailed under a $1 million bond was Quincy Jones, 27. Wounded was Reginald Smith, 33, who was also accidentally run over by a mechanism in which Jones was fleeing. Police say that in the altercation Bagley pulled out a gun and shot Burnett, killing him, and Smith, and then Jones pulled out a gun and by no means Bagley, killing him. Police are still investigating the shootings. They believe the fire-out was a continuation of an earlier confrontation. No. 6: Elections returned Sheriff David Allison back to commission for a second term; Angela Burks Hill unseated two-compromise concerning incumbent State Sen. Sid Albritton; Tony Smith unseated past master State Sen. Ezell Lee; Supervisor Hudson Holliday lost the get a wiggle on for GOP nomination for governor, but took Pearl River County; and four members of the county stay of supervisors won re-election — Lee, Culpepper, Smith and Hales. Dennis Dedeaux won the Precinct Three seat to replace Holliday, who did not run for re-election. And veteran state representatives Label Formby and Herb Frierson won re-election. No. 7: Former City Manageress Harvey Miller resigned on Jan. 4 and the council named Oversee Chief Jim Luke as his replacement as interim and later elevated him for good. Luke later named Asst. Police Chief Brian Dawsey as his replacement. Luke had served eight years as regulate chief, the longest, continuous time a chief has served in the bureau’s history. Miller remained with the city in another capacity. No. 8: In January, a full-fledged county court system got underway here. It was assumed to revolutionize, reorganize and streamline the court system here and clear out a backlog of cases. More than 400 cases were transferred from limit court to the new court, in which Richelle Lumpkin was elected judge in the November 2010 voting. She was unchallenged. The court hears cases at Chimney Square in Picayune and in Poplarville. The supervisors budgeted $300,000 for the first year of running, but the court was expected to be self-sufficient from assessed fees and fines. No. 9: On Feb. 25, Big Star closed its last offices and operations here and laid off 21 employees, some of whom had worked for the suite here over 40 years. At its peak the company employed 750 persons here. It first opened in October 1953. The Film Star plant in Poplarville has 211,000 sq. ft. in it and will be returned to the county, which owns it. Company officials said the mechanism of large portions of the garment industry overseas and changes in the energy globally caused the reduction in workers here and eventually a complete shutdown. No. 10: Picayune on Nov. 9, 2010, voted to add the sale of liquor-by-the-drink in Picayune, although the county remained dry. It took a multitude of months to get the program up and running and by May 18, on a Wednesday, Wow Cafe and Wingery, 1413 Armand Proceed, served the first legal drink of liquor in the 119-year depiction of Pearl River Co. The first drink was served to Picayune businessman A.P. Guizerix, Jr., who was one of the compete organizers who pushed for adoption of the ordinance allowing the serving of Kickapoo mountain joy juice along with meals in Picayune. Wow’s owner, Luke J. Barrilleaux, said he planned to put together the sales receipt.

Source: Picayune Item

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