Lumberton: Closed?

[Kitty]

Lott prepares to close down Lumberton (http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070929/NEWS01/70929031)

[carsalesguy]

hahaha.... that's the funniest $hit i've ever heard

[noway]

OMG.. Has he lost his mind? I saw him on TV endorsing John Eaves.. This is 10-92.. Has anyone ever heard of this happening anywhere before?

[wilebill]

Well, they generally roll up the sidewalks at 9:00 anyway.

[Honey]

Didn't click link yet but if it's for sale maybe Oak Grove should check into it being that they are looking for a new home.

[Kitty]

Oak Grove + Lumberton = Oak Lumber

[SoMissTV]

Well, they generally roll up the sidewalks at 9:00 anyway.

Maybe they can sell them to Hattiesburg; we sure could use them.

[Honey]

But maybe OG will be far enough away from H'burg and everyone will be happier.

[Hermione]

If the aldermen won't show up to approve a budget (that's what it sounds like has happened) and he can't pay for city services, maybe that's what needs to happen.

[Fish-Bait]

If anyone has followed politics in Lumberton to the least little bit they would realize this isn't shocking news..They have went through More police-chiefs int the last 10 years than any other department I can think of. Everytime you turn around the Lumberton admin. is making the new over something ridiculous. They have been acting like little children down their for awhile now.....Grow up Lumberton.

[Ted]

OMG.. Has he lost his mind?
Mmmmmm - - hard to say but reading between the lines I'm wondering if the mayor is stuck with a City Council that needs a whooping - or vs/vs.;)

Has anyone ever heard of this happening anywhere before?
Yeah.
President Reagan shut down the Federal Govt. in 1981.Here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdown)

[Fish-Bait]

Ya'll remember when the Feds shut down all of the Parks? Back around 1996 or so. I was workin' up in Selma, Tn and I believe Shiloh Battlefield park or something was on my route to Counce (Fishing Route). I came back through at night after the announcement of all the closings and people with metal detectors had the whole field dug up. It looked light giant termite mounds everywhere! It was nuts.

[TDaleBeavers]

According to today's HA, the budget crisis has been resolved, but the article doesn't reveal whether or not proper taxes are going up. As noted, what almost happened in Lumberton is not unprecedented, and has happened at different levels of government, including the Federal government in 1995, when the House GOP and President Clinton were at odds over budget cuts.

[Kitty]

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[BlueDogDemocrat]

Aaron Lott is an idiot and a media whore.

[TDaleBeavers]

Aaron Lott is an idiot and a media whore.


...but he endorsed your man for Governor, BDD!! Actually, I'd rank some of the Board of Aldermen, particularly Miriam Holder, higher on the idiot scale.

[BlueDogDemocrat]

...but he endorsed your man for Governor, BDD!! Actually, I'd rank some of the Board of Aldermen, particularly Miriam Holder, higher on the idiot scale.

Aaron only endorsed Eaves for Governor because he knew it would attract a little media attention his way. If he had endorsed Barbour, it wouldn't even made the local newspaper.

Aaron forgets he's just a little mayor elected with barely 300 votes over a miserable little place once known as the City of Lumberton.

Who cares who he thinks is best for Governor. His opinion on this race is about as important as Apu's input down at the Seven Eleven.

[TDaleBeavers]

I disagree, in part, BDD. I know Aaron Lott, and I have always found him to be an honest man of conviction. And, though I might disagree with him in final analysis on this, if he is endorsing John Arthur Eaves, he is doing so out of conviction. I've heard second hand what some of those reasons are and rattling the press's chains wasn't one of them.

I will agree that given the demographics of Lumberton, Lott may have helped himself somewhat. However, he could have achieved that end just as well by quietly endorsing Eaves in Lumberton, without significant media coverage.

[CircusRide]

My question: If Lumberton is closed, will anyone notice?

[mybabysmomma]

My question: If Lumberton is closed, will anyone notice?
Does anyone really notice when it's not? :confused: Will anyone really even care?

[EricStratton]

There are also a lot of good people who live in Lumberton......

[Augustus McRae]

Aaron Lott is an idiot and a media whore.


What a ridiculously mean-spirited thing to say! Bless your heart....

[BlueDogDemocrat]

I disagree, in part, BDD. I know Aaron Lott, and I have always found him to be an honest man of conviction. And, though I might disagree with him in final analysis on this, if he is endorsing John Arthur Eaves, he is doing so out of conviction. I've heard second hand what some of those reasons are and rattling the press's chains wasn't one of them.

I will agree that given the demographics of Lumberton, Lott may have helped himself somewhat. However, he could have achieved that end just as well by quietly endorsing Eaves in Lumberton, without significant media coverage.


I knew Aaron Lott before you knew where Lamar County was on a map.

This is typical Aaron Lott. Everything he has done officially seems to always end up in the HA. Formerly, that was not the case. Aaron has conviction-- conviction for media attention and a conviction to make sure he keeps his job in town with a large minority population.

And Eric, noone said anything bad about the people that live in Lumberton. We are just commenting on the current state of the city, not the people. Despite the post katrina development hiccups, Lumberton has been on a steady decline with the rest of small town Mississippi. Good people, not so good a city.

[BlueDogDemocrat]

What a ridiculously mean-spirited thing to say! Bless your heart....


Bless my heart, I should be less honest, shouldn't I?

[bpitt]

My question: If Lumberton is closed, will anyone notice?
That right there is funny, I don't care who you are.....

[BlueDogDemocrat]

Does anyone really notice when it's not? :confused: Will anyone really even care?


Well, Aaron thinks he is Bill Clinton with this "I'm going to shut down the government" crap. Someone forgot tell him, though, he is just mayor of Lumerton, MS. Has a little less effect, shall we say. :bowrofl:

[mybabysmomma]

There are also a lot of good people who live in Lumberton......
This is very true. I grew up there and I am related to some very good people. The problem is the town of Lumberton in and of itsself. There's just something not quite right about that place. I never could put my finger on it. It's kinda like that kid that everyone knew that really really wanted to fit in and tried really really hard, but in the end just totally alienated itself from the rest of the world. :smt102

[Augustus McRae]

Bless my heart, I should be less honest, shouldn't I?


Nope, but I would simply hope you sound less like a prick with your honesty....that's all. I know you are a nicer guy than that.....

[TDaleBeavers]

I've known where Lamar County was since at least 1987, when I started reading Blue Books and saw the big Republican vote (even then) that was here. As far as Aaron Lott goes, I have only known him since about the time of his election last fall. That being said, I think he is serving the city well, and will continue to do so.

[Kitty]

I've known where Lamar County was since at least 1987, when I started reading Blue Books and saw the big Republican vote (even then) that was here.

Now how many other boys were reading Blue Books as teenagers?

:smt023

[TDaleBeavers]

I still have my Blue Book from 1989, covering the Bush election over Dukakis and Trent Lott over Wayne Dowdy for U.S. Senate. The covers are worn and a few glossed pages in the front missing, but it is still occasionally looked at.

[BlueDogDemocrat]

I still have my Blue Book from 1989, covering the Bush election over Dukakis and Trent Lott over Wayne Dowdy for U.S. Senate. The covers are worn and a few glossed pages in the front missing, but it is still in my occasionally looked at.

I bet there are a few other stains on that book...:kekeke:

[Kitty]

Lumberton is broke. (http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071107/NEWS01/711070301/1002)

[Bluesman]

Lumberton should have kept their ag program at the high school and they would probably be in better shape right now.;)

See what happens when an ag program closes??? The whole area goes to hell in a handbasket.

[Hob684]

Lumberton should have kept their ag program at the high school and they would probably be in better shape right now.;)

See what happens when an ag program closes??? The whole area goes to hell in a handbasket.


thats a hell of a stir stick you just pulled out....

i may need to borrow it sometime..:evil:

[Conveyor Belt]

Where is Lumberton?

[TheKing]

Aaron Lott should borrow some money from one of the many drug dealers in his town.


as lucritive as cooking meth may be...most of them use the profits for themselves

[mybabysmomma]

Where is Lumberton?

South of Purvis, North of Poplarville. Smack dab in the middle of hell....uh..nowhere.

[TARZAN]

We should just turn it into a big parking garage for Hattiesburg

-Will

[Conveyor Belt]

We should just turn it into a big parking garage for Hattiesburg

-Will

Nobody wants to walk that far.

[Kitty]

Maybe those who want Oak Grove to be a city should just buy Lumberton.

It is already a city. It needs money. Problem solved.

:-D