Tonight, the Starkville Board of Aldermen will meet to make a decision that will undo yet another decision made by the previous board.
Barring some unforeseen, dramatic change of heart, the board will vote to move the Starkville Police Department into the big building Cadence Bank wants to vacate.
The original plan, approved by the previous board of aldermen, would have relocated city offices to a renovated building in what was once the Starkville Electric Department while the police departme
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