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Board of Aldermen to consider allowing the sale Suspect arrested in of cold beer and light wine in local businesses
connection with bomb threat
BY DAVID KENNEDY dmkenned@go.olemiss.edu
A request will be made to amend the current city ordinance and let businesses refrigerate light wine and beer in the city of Oxford at tonight’s Board of Aldermen meeting. Local attorney Dee Hobbs of Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh PLLC, will be submitting the request on behalf of his client, Craddock Oil Company, which owns twenty-six convenience stores in Mississippi and employs more than 200 people. “Its 2013. It’s time to get this behind Oxford so we can move on to bigger and better things,” said Hobbs. “One of the two biggest alcohol distributors in the area has told me that this will increase every convenience store and every grocery store’s beer sales by 10-15 percent.” Robyn Tannehill from Ward II on the Board of Aldermen has confirmed that she will vote for the law to be amended at the Alderman meeting on Aug.
BY PETE PORTER tjporter@go.olemiss.edu
A six pack of beer in front of the Circle K on Highway 6
20. “I will be voting to support the amendment change to allow for refrigerated beer to be
sold,” Tannehill said. Tannehill said that selling cold beer will help benefit Oxford.
Investigators with the Oxford Police Department have made an arrest in connection with a bomb threat at the Oxford Mall on Sunday, July 14. Matthew Allen, a 29-year old from Bruce, was arrested on Tuesday, July 16, as a result of the investigation. He was charged with False Report of a Bomb. If convicted, Allen faces a $10,000 fine and up to 10 years in a penitentiary. An email from Oxford’s Deputy Chief Kevin Stark stated Allen’s bond was set at $10,000. “On Tuesday, July 16, investigators with the Oxford Police KATIE WILLIAMSON | The Daily Mississippian Department arrested Matthew Allen, 29 years old from “I think that Oxford as a Bruce, MS as a result of the town is a business, and we have investigation of the incident at See BEER, PAGE 4
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Blues legend Johnny Winter visits Oxford for the first time in honor of Blues Fest
Johnny Winter
BY KATHERINE CARR kecarr@go.olemiss.edu
Celebrated guitarist Johnny Winter played a show at The
KATIE WILLIAMSON| The Daily Mississippian
Library Bar on the Oxford Square as the opening day headliner for the 4th Annual Oxford Blues Festival. Born John Dawson Win-
ter III, Winter, 69, has been playing music since he began on the clarinet at the age of 5. Since then, he has worked as a producer and musician on
many Grammy-nominated as well as Grammy–winning albums and with legendary artists such as Muddy Waters, BB King, Bobby Bland and Bob Dylan. Rolling Stone magazine listed Johnny as number 63 on their 100 Greatest Guitarists list in 2003. Johnny was also honored earlier in 1988 when he was inducted into the Blues Foundation’s Hall of Fame. Winter was seated in a second floor room between the front bar and the stage in The Library on the Oxford Square. He was being interviewed by a film documentary crew, wearing blue jeans, sandals, a sky blue sleeveless shirt and a memorable black cowboy hat with open-mouthed snakes wrapped around the brim. The festival was Winter’s first visit to Oxford, but having lived in Mississippi for a few years, he relishes every opportunity to come back to
the state. “Every chance we get, we do,” Winter said. Winter, who has travelled all over the world, said he was first drawn to the blues when he heard it as a youngster. “I heard it on the radio at first,” Winter said. “It just really got to me. I thought that this was great music and I gotta do it whenever I get the chance. It’s (the blues) got so much emotion in it.” As far as his own musical tastes go, Winter made it clear he is not a fan of today’s music, saying he had his own advice for them. “I don’t like too many new artists. Most of the people I like were from the ‘50s and ‘60s. My advice is listen to the older people who came first,” Winter said. Winter did not have much time to sight-see or hang out See WINTER, PAGE 5