Lifestyle

Change my batteries and keep me ticking

By Steve Stricker Columnist   Snow update. Exhale…the snow on Thursday night, January 9 covered everything at first…

Lifestyle

2025 Double Decker Arts Festival artwork, music lineup revealed

Grace Potter, an American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist known for her dynamic stage presence, powerful voice and genre-blending musical…

Arts

Fiber Fest returns Friday and Saturday

The Oxford Fiber Festival will present 24 vendors during this year’s festival slated for this weekend at The…

Lifestyle

Oxford Film Festival returns with focus on storytelling

The Oxford Film Festival is set to return for its 22nd year, highlighting stories, storytellers, and filmmaking talent.…

History

TV and snow cream on the farm

By Harold Brummett Denmark Star Route   A couple of weeks ago the legacy news organizations were telling…

Lifestyle

New words are like old dogs

By TJ Ray Columnist   The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the…

Columnists

Consider a daily ‘toes up’ break

By Bonnie Brown Columnist It seems that Mother Nature has been flexing her cold weather muscle here just…

Columnists

Have Becki, will live

By Les Ferguson, Jr. Columnist   I live with a fantastic woman. She is simply a phenomenal partner…

Columnists

Step by step, little by little

By Steve Stricker Columnist “For sound mental health, we must love and be loved unconditionally by at least…

History

Cofield’s Corner

By John Cofield After the Civil War, freed black families started walking into town from county farms and…

Arts

Civic Chorus announces open rehearsals

Oxford Civic Chorus is gearing up for another fun season of music and community, and the first few…

Garden/Outdoors

Tree giveaway day coming in February

On a first-come basis, a limited number of fruit trees and a limited number of hardwood and pine…

Arts

Celebrating the centennial of two Mississippi legends

In 2025, Mississippi will proudly commemorate the centennial birthdays of two of its most iconic figures— Riley “B.B.”…

Arts

Anubis Improv welcomes improv star for show, workshop

Anubis Improv will be hosting a weekend of improv with renowned performer, director, and teacher Brian James O’Connell. Known…

Weather

Photo Gallery: Winter Wonderland: Oxford’s dowtown Square

Oxford woke up to about 3 inches of snow this morning which blanketed the downtown Square and created…

Lifestyle

Student art show kicks off March 4

Young artists in Lafayette County are gearing up for the 2025 Student Art Show, celebrating creativity from pre-K…

Lifestyle

Sardis Lake accepting applications for Youth Squirrel Hunt

The US Army Corps of Engineers at Sardis Lake will hold a youth squirrel hunt on Feb.1 in…

Lifestyle

Indoor yard sale postponed this weekend

Due to the winter weather expected later this week, the Oxford Conference Center is postponing the annual indoor…

History

Cofield’s Corner

By John Cofield Local lore says William Faulkner’s grandfather, J. W. T. “Young Colonel” Falkner, owned the first…

Lifestyle

Hoping the ship will right itself

By Bonnie Brown Columnist Welcome 2025!  We say goodbye to 2024 and do a reset for the new…

Lifestyle

The best resolution is not to make them

By Les Ferguson, Jr. Columnist   Nobody likes failure, and nobody wants to be a failure. Like most…

Lifestyle

Christmas not over until Jan. 6

By Steve Stricker Columnist HAPPY NEW YEAR’S DAY 2025, y’all! Such an awesome Christmas made special of course…