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Above stands a whitetail deer standing in a garden. The deer’s population continues to rise in Oxford due to citizens supplementing their diets with additional food.
As part of the ordinance for the first offense the offender receives a notice of violation and the second offense is a $50 fine and for every offense after that is a $100 fine according to Allgood. The draft outlines a plan to Involve the community in an awareness program of how wildlife and humans interact and the impact that they have on each other, develop a Wildlife Task Force that will monitor and update the management plan on a regular basis and develop a community oriented set of controls that will limit or reduce the growth of the deer population. “One of the first and immediate measures we can take is by controlling the feeding,” Allgood said. “The deer browse throughout the city naturally, but there are people that are feeding them corn, grain and other things to supplement
A draft to ensure a safe and effective system to manage the growth of the whitetail deer population in Oxford was passed at the Board of Aldermen meeting Tuesday . “We have an overpopulation of deer, and it’s become a problem,” said Jimmy Allgood, Director of Emergency Management and Homeland Security. “We have been working with the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks and the United States Department of Agriculture on a deer management plan to try to control the deer population here in the city to a safe and healthy level.” The city of Oxford has completed the first step of the plan which is a “no-feeding” ordinance that makes it unlawful to feed, provide feed or other attractants to deer within the city limits and authorizes city officials to enforce the ordinance. See DEER, PAGE 4
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LOU SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The orchestra performs a preview of its fall concert for children, featuring music from Symphony No. 5 in Bb Major, Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, and Prelude and Liebestod from “Tristan und Isolde.” 11:30 am 12:30 pm
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LOU SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The orchestra performs a preview of its fall concert for children, featuring music from Symphony No. 5 in Bb Major, Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, and Prelude and Liebestod from “Tristan und Isolde.” 11:30 am 12:30 pm
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State lawmakers to challenge 2 Miss. congressmen
LAW SCHOOL NAMES NEW DEAN BY BRITTANY STACK
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two of Mississippi’s Democratic congressmen will be challenged in November by state lawmakers backed by the national Republican Party. State Senate Appropriations Chairman Alan Nunnelee of Tupelo won the Republican nomination Tuesday in north Mississippi’s 1st District and will try in November to unseat Travis Childers of Booneville, a Blue Dog Democrat who has held the seat since mid-2008. In southern Mississippi’s 4th District, state Rep. Steven Palazzo of Biloxi won the GOP primary and will face 21-year incumbent Gene Taylor of Bay St. Louis, a Democrat who often votes against his own party. In central Mississippi’s 3rd District, Pickens Mayor Joel Gill won the Democratic congressional primary and will challenge Republican incumbent Gregg Harper of Pearl, who first won the seat in November 2008. Richard Cook of Byram and Bill Marcy of Meridian appeared headed for a June 22 runoff in the Delta’s 2nd District Republican primary. The eventual winner will face Democratic incumbent Bennie Thompson of Bolton, who’s held the seat since 1993 and is chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. Unofficial results from Tuesday’s Republican primary in the 1st District show Nunnelee defeated former Eupora Mayor Henry Ross and former Fox News analyst Angela See CONGRESSMEN, PAGE 4
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When Richard Gershon was young, he wanted to be like Atticus Finch, lawyer from Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Like Finch, he said, he wanted to be a lawyer for the capability what they can do for their society. Gershon gets a little closer to a modern-day Finch on July 1, when he will be named the new dean of the Ole Miss School of Law. Gershon graduated from the University of Georgia with a B.A. in political science. He continued his studies at the University of Tennessee, from which he graduated with a Juris Doctorate, or first degree of law. He then continued at the University of Florida, where he received a master of law in taxation. Gershon worked as a professor of law at Stetson University School of Law from 1984 to 1998 and the Academic Associate Dean at Stetson University from 1988 to 1992.
This is not Gershon’s first appointment as dean, though. He first served as the Dean of Law at Texas Wesleyan Law School and later as the founding dean of Charleston School of Law in South Carolina from December 2003 until December 2007. As the dean of Charleston School of Law, Gershon lead the school to provisional approval by the American Bar Association. Until the school opened, South Carolina only had one law school for a state with 4 million residents. “There was a definite need for a second law school in the state,” Gershon said. “Charleston is a beautiful and historic city, so we knew we could attract a strong faculty and outstanding students. I was lucky to be a part of building that law school, and I was fortunate to work with some amazing people.” Constructing the law was no easy task for Gershon though, because the entire school was created from scratch. “Every time we did something for the first time, I would say, ‘it See LAW SCHOOL, PAGE 4
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