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Crappie is third most popular freshwater fish

Prime spawning season starts in late March By James L. Cummins Conservation Corner Crappie are the third most ...

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, ...

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 ...

Lifestyle

For Heaven’s sake, please use soap

By Les Ferguson Jr. Columnist In the old sitcom Fresh Prince of Bel Air, the theme song sung ...

Lifestyle

Sunday visits at the cathedral with no doors

By Harold Brummett Denmark Star Route Sundays are nothing like it used to be. As a child and ...

Lifestyle

Cofield’s Corner

By John Cofield From Oxford’s first day in 1836, North Lamar has been the main drag. Southbound northerners ...

Lifestyle

Leap Year Babies

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

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 ...

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.   ...

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 ...

Lifestyle

Let’s see health care as a civil right

Sandra C. Melvin Guest Columnist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stated, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice ...

News

It’s time to modernize public notice rates in Mississippi

From the Mississippi Press Association Mississippi’s newspapers have been trusted with publishing legally required government notices for decades ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lifestyle

Cofield’s Corner

By John Cofield I know that posting three wallet-sized shots isn’t eye-catching. But their stories are one and ...

Lifestyle

The mother of all misheard lyrics

By Les Ferguson Jr. Columnist I have it on good authority that a friend once had a celebrity ...

Lifestyle

Calls to change MAEP funding formula have consequences

By Sid Salter Columnist The Mississippi Adequate Education Formula had its genesis almost 30 years ago in politics ...

Lifestyle

Making History!

By M. Ben Williams Oxford’s own Charles Reagan Wilson, UM professor emeritus of history and Southern studies, received ...

News

Oxford, Fulton natives are the two guardsmen who died in helicopter crash

By Lt. Col. Deidre D. Smith and Daniel Szarek Mississippi National Guard The two soldiers who died Feb. ...

News

Clarksdale resident sentenced to prison for assaulting postal carrier

A Clarksdale resident was sentenced Feb. 23 to serve the statutory maximum sentence of eight years in prison ...

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Mississippi Delta grain elevator owner pleads guilty to fraud

John R. Coleman, 47, of Greenwood appeared Feb. 23 before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Mills in Oxford ...

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