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Additional Parking ON THE Square The Oxford Square will soon have a parking lot behind the Oxford-University Club to accommodate an additional 110 parking spaces. The mayor has also formed a parking committee to develop further solutions to increase parking on the Square. by Hawley Martin
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Homegrown, homemade, hometown Oxford’s first city-run farmers market will open at the end of April, offering the community an array of items ranging from produce to crafts.
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A new parking lot on the Square will be available for use by the beginning of the 2013 fall semester. Oxford has purchased a gravel lot on North Lamar behind the Oxford-University Club, and Pita Pit and has enough funding to build a parking lot on the site. “We’ve already bought that property, and we’re just waiting on pretty weather to put in 100 more spaces up there,” Mayor Pat Patterson said. The planned parking lot will accommodate 110 parking spaces. Patterson said local contractors will bid to the city for the opportunity to build the parking lot, but that process has not yet happened. The lot on North Lamar is
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New ASB officers sworn into office Kimbrely Dandridge, 2012 Associated Student Body president,left, hugs Gregory Alston, 2013 ASB president after the new officers were sworn in Tuesday afternoon in the Lyceum. The 2013-14 Ole Miss Associated Student Body officers are Carson Rutledge, treasurer; Allie Winter, secretary; Gregory Alston, president; Morgan Gregory, vice president; Rob Pillow, attorney general and Harrison Crabtree, judicial council chair.
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Ole Miss students and Oxonians will have another healthy produce option by the end of April. The Oxford City Market opens Apr. 30 and will run from 3-7 p.m. on Tuesdays at West Oxford Loop, next to Southland Body Shop. “The mission of the Oxford City Market is to give local residents access to local nutritional, healthy and sustainable items and food,” said Katie Morrison, Oxford City Market manager. Morrison said the market will not be limited to only selling produce, but will offer other services, as well. “We have the possibility of having centers that are showing people how they can grow strawberries, lettuces and herbs even if all a person has is a window sill,” she said. Morrison said the market will be primarily food- and gardenrelated but some items may not be typical things seen at a farmers market. “I think a lot of variety will be seen at this market,” she said. “I think this will be unique to Oxford and people will be surprised with the things that will be for sale.” The land for the market was given by John Trezevant, owner of Trezevant Realty Corporation, who said the location is ideal. “The mayor called me and asked if we had anything that they could use to jump-start their farmers market,” Trezevant said. “I think it’s a perfect place for them to go to take advantage of all of the development that has been going on that side of town.” See MARKET, PAGE 4