Mayor Bumgarner
Mayor Bumgarner
Mayor Les Bumgarner is excited about becoming Brookhaven’s newest Mayor and is looking forward to truly making Brookhaven a “Homeseeker’s Paradise” and the “Shining Star” in Southwest Mississippi.??He is a graduate of Clinton High School, Hinds Jr. College and Delta State University. He was a teacher /coach at Greenville, Corinth, Warren Central, Vicksburg St. Aloysius, and Brookhaven High School for a total of eleven years.??Mayor Bumgarner and his wife Katherine, have two children, a son Brad and daughter-in-law Kami Burns Bumgarner; a daughter Leslie and son-in-law Rod Delaney. They have six grandchildren and another one expected in September.
He opened the Men’s Locker Room shop in Brookhaven in 1979 and has operated it for over 30 years. He was a board member of the Brookhaven Recreation Department for sixteen years and a member of the Board of Trustees for the Brookhaven Separate School District for ten years. He has served as Alderman at Large on the Brookhaven City Council for the past eight years.??He spent eleven years in the Mississippi National Guard and the United States Army Reserves and retired at the rank of Captain.??He is currently the Senior Warden at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer and serves as President of the Southwest Chapter of the Delta State University Alumni.
Mayor Bumgarner states that the City has many projects in different stages, some on the drawing board, some in progress, and some near completion.??He also stated that even though the economy is tough, with proper planning, budget preparation, and wise use of our resources, we can still get some much needed priorities accomplished.
April 1st, 2012 at 5:21 pm
Les, I’m bringing a group of ladies to Brookhaven on Tues., June 5th. We’d like to visit the MS School of Art and the little Jewish Synagogue on Church St. After living there for 21 years, we never went inside – what a shame. I don’t know how far along the city is on creating a museum there in it, but hope that effort is successful. How do we go about gaining admission to enter the building and just enjoy seeing it?
We’ve seen Leslie several times since we moved back to MS and she is our granddaughter’s doctor. Please give Katherine a hug for me. Love the picture of you all and the grandchildren – beautiful family.
Best regards to all of you.
Jo Anne
July 16th, 2012 at 11:36 pm
Brookhaven should consider getting a Chuck E Cheese theirs nothing in Brookhaven for the Kids to do besides go to a park, us parents has to travel to other towns that actually have things for kids to enjoy, water parks, chuck e cheese, things like that and we would much rather spend our money in our home town than having to spend it else where, just like north park mall In Jackson I just found out they just put in a kids play area by the food court and it looked like the kids would have a lot of fun… The new shopping center that was recently put in Brookhaven has a lot of vacant stores one of those could have a chuck e cheese. I think that this all should be put into consideration.. Thanks Lisa