Ole Miss’ Laurent selected in CFL draft
TORONTO—Ole Miss’ Ted Laurent was selected with the second pick in Monday’s Canadian Football League supplemental draft by the Edmonton Eskimos. (more…) (May 31, 2011, Page 10)
Local arts programs offer rewards
Leadership Lafayette is working towards a new cultural passport and way to have a shared community calendar. (May 31, 2011, Page 3)
BMX track approved for FNC
Despite concerns, the Oxford Board of Aldermen approved the new BMX track along with parking and new walking trails earlier this month. (May 31, 2011, Page 3)
Education briefs
- Monster cabbage wins at LES
- Deadine Wednesday for MAC mini-grant
- Locals graduate ICC
- Sherman selected Demmer Scholar
- Mayes receives ICS scholarship
- Locals graduate MSMS
- Locals on Deans list
- National Merit Scholarships
- Fisher receives scholarships
- Kendricks receives scholarships
- Local students in National Technical Honor Society
New class to introduce teaching
Oxford-Lafayette School of Applied Technology is a new initiative set to help future teachers prepare. The program will replace the business computer technology courses for next year. (May 31, 2011, Page 6)
Living Forever
So you think you’d rather live forever? Local columnist Jimmy Reed takes a look at that view of life and aging and questions if we really want immortality. (May 31, 2011, Page 4)
Rebs excluded from NCAA Tournament
BLOG: For the first time since the 2002 season the Ole Miss baseball team will not be competing in the NCAA Baseball Tournament.
(more…) (May 30, 2011)
Saturday’s obituaries
Demetrius “Meatball” Owens — 19, died Friday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi in Oxford. Arrangements are incomplete with Hodges-Freeman Funeral Home of Oxford. (May 28, 2011)
Gen. Stone encounters an Oxford ghost
Historian and columnist Jack Lamar Mayfield tells us about the Stone family Bride’s House on College Hill Street — now Washington Avenue. It was originally built in the 1850s and was often visited by William Faulkner until it burned in 1942. (May 27, 2011, Page 2B)
Businessman will spend day in jail
Former Oxford businessman Dino Jerry Grisanti was sentenced Thursday to spend one day in jail and pay a $7,500 fine after he pleaded guilty in October to a $2 million bank fraud scheme. (May 27, 2011, Page 2A)
