Lifestyle

Locals are 2024 Junior Bass Fishing state champions

March 6, 2024

Lifestyle

Statewide feed ban for deer considered

By Hunter Cloud The Brookhaven Daily Leader Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks Commissioners may entertain a ...

March 6, 2024

Lifestyle

MS Historical Society Teacher of the Year named

The Mississippi Historical Society held its annual meeting Feb. 22-23 in Oxford to honor its 2024 award winners, ...

March 6, 2024

News

View sample ballots for March 12 election

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March 6, 2024

News

Absentee voting deadline Saturday

For in-person balloting; mail-ins next week The Lafayette County Circuit Court Clerk’s office will be open this Saturday to ...

March 6, 2024

Lifestyle

Piecemakers will meet Saturday

The Piecemakers Quilt Guild will meet Saturday, March 9, at 10:30 a.m. in the fellowship hall of First ...

March 6, 2024

Lifestyle

Vietnam Veterans Day date is significant

By Gene Hays MSgt, USMC (Ret) Celebrated every March 29, Vietnam Veterans Day is set aside as a ...

March 6, 2024

Lifestyle

Leap Year Babies

Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi welcomed three Leap Year babies born Feb. 29.  Taquetra Carter of Oxford welcomed Khari ...

March 6, 2024

Lifestyle

MDWFP announces crackdown on habitual violators of hunting laws

The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP) reports it is intensifying efforts to uphold hunting regulations ...

March 5, 2024

News

Seven OHS students named as National Merit finalists

Oxford High School has announced that seven exceptional students have advanced to National Merit finalists in the annual ...

March 1, 2024

News

Softball opens play at home, hosts Ole Miss Classic

Playing at home for the first time this season and in a new stadium, Ole Miss Softball welcomes ...

February 29, 2024

Lifestyle

Ole Miss honors 60th anniversary of ‘Freedom Summer’

A week dedicated to honoring the 60th anniversary of the “Mississippi Freedom Summer” features guest speakers, documentaries and ...

February 29, 2024

News

Northwest Hall of Fame inducts locals

Three Lafayette, one Oxford graduate inducted in group of 16 Sixteen Northwest Mississippi Community College students have been ...

February 28, 2024

News

Strong named MS Raiders head coach

Arena football team opens season March 23 at B’ville Civic Center By Myra Bean MS Raiders sports writer ...

February 28, 2024

Arts

Inaugural ‘Casey Jones Blues Fest’ slated for March 23

On Saturday, March 23, the Water Valley Main Street Association will hold its first Casey Jones Blues Festival.   ...

February 28, 2024

Lifestyle

New Oxonians named Pantry’s ‘Volunteers of the Year’

José and Carmen Martin were named the 2023 Volunteers of the Year by the Oxford Pantry recently. The ...

February 28, 2024

News

Dallas completes advanced fire course

Firefighter Carsen Dallas of the Oxford Fire Department graduated Class 207 from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) ...

February 28, 2024

Lifestyle

OHS junior named North MS Youth of the Year

Boys & Girls Club  is ‘second home’ for Thigpen Alicia Thigpen has been a part of the LOU ...

February 28, 2024

Lifestyle

Leap Year gives extra day in 2024

Every four years most of the world gets an extra day to do whatever it is they do ...

February 28, 2024

Lifestyle

Conference Center revenue $850K in ‘23

The Oxford Conference Center had a good year in 2023 and 2024 is looking bright as well. On ...

February 28, 2024

News

Nash is finalist for National Coach of the Year

Awards banquet set for June 26 in Bismarck, N.D. The National High School Athletic Coaches Association announced last ...

February 28, 2024

Lifestyle

Cedar Oaks is a treasure, with the bees gone

By Harold Brummett Denmark Star Route Several years ago my daughter Patti and I went to a Marty ...

February 28, 2024