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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 ...

News

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 ...

Arts

Three Willie Morris winners lauded for ‘sense of place’

By Lucy Gaines UM Communications Three writers who incorporate universal themes of art, landscape and family in their ...

News

Mayor breaks tie vote to approve resolution to explore Cedar Oaks options

UPDATE from Oxford Mayor Robyn Tannehill: At 8 a.m. Wednesday, the city clerk received an email from Shane ...

Lifestyle

Some things can’t be explained, or can they?

By Steve Stricker Columnist Lent, March 2022, ongoing restoration by a team of 50 scientists of the Church ...

Lifestyle

Black History Month: Brave Marine died fighting to the end

By Gene Hays MSgt, USMC (Ret) Vietnam War – U.S. Marine Corps – Medal of Honor – Miguel ...

Lifestyle

Some things never change

By Jan Penton Miller My Papaw, the late William Carroll Palmer, Sr. could strike up a conversation with anyone. ...

Lifestyle

No cure for regret at memorial service

By Harold Brummett  Denmark Star Route I have heard it said someone cannot miss what they have not ...

Lifestyle

Cofield’s Corner

By John Cofield In 1980 Hollywood came to call on Oxford once again for the filming of a ...

Lifestyle

Much more to lives than etched epithets

By Les Ferguson, Jr. Columnist I’m not a fan of cemeteries and graveyards. I get their purpose. I ...

Cold Front Triggers Sharp Temperature Drop in Oxford

Lifestyle

Help available for high utility bills

Record energy use during cold snap By Alyssa Schnugg Senior reporter Many Lafayette County and Oxford residents are ...

Lifestyle

Dunlap presented Outstanding Eagle Award

History

Aldermen seeking information on options for Cedar Oaks

An item on the upcoming Oxford Board of Aldermen’s meeting agenda has caused a flurry of email chains ...

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