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A federal judge ordered the City of Horn Lake to pursue a private settlement to allow the Abraham House of God to obtain permits to build a mosque, which the city originally blocked from moving forward in spring 2021.
The City of Oxford’s Board of Aldermen voted at an emergency meeting this afternoon to mandate that masks must be worn inside all city buildings. “Our hospital is completely full; our ICU is completely full,” Oxford Mayor Robyn Tannehill said.
Retired civil-rights lawyer Barbara Phillips filed an ethics complaint against Oxford Mayor Robyn Tannehill, then called an unsanctioned meeting of the Oxford Commission on Police Transparency. The mayor and police chief did not run this meeting as they usually do.
A levee may burst on the edge of Oxford, the Lafayette County Fire Department has warned since Wednesday, but much of the town is facing flooding with or without it.
Ray Elk spent more than two years planning a new mosque for 16 families. But the City of Horn Lake keeps blocking it. Still, he has support from a white alderman whose preacher steered him to support local Muslims and their freedom of religion.
Pamela McKelvy Hamner never thought she would run for political office. After all, she was a reporter for 30 years. She knew what politics were like—brutal. Eight years after local members of the Federation of Democratic Women started approaching her as a potential candidate for local office, Hamner decided to run.
Afton Thomas thinks that Oxford could re-allocate its local support better, saying that the community has more than enough resources to support its citizens. “We have far too many resources in Oxford to have so many of our friends, neighbors and fellow community members struggling to make ends meet,” Thomas said. She plans to work to strengthen relationships between the City of Oxford and local organizations, so that nonprofits and municipal efforts can work hand-in-hand.
All of the dogs transported from the Oxford animal shelter, after the nonprofit Mississippi Critterz vacated after charged of neglect and dangerous conditions, were suffering from a giardia infection often found in hoarding or neglect situations.
Mississippi Critterz board member Janice Antonow announced that Oxford’s animal shelter will be closing temporarily after months of rumors, leaks, and photos circulating of sick animals in unhygienic and crowded conditions. “We don’t have specific plans right now for the shelter,” Antonow said March 8. “I do know we’re going to close down, at least temporarily.”
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