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Remember the reason for Memorial Day

By Bonnie Brown Columnist Summer officially begins on Friday, June 20, but Memorial Day marks the “unofficial” start ...

Opinion

Be solemn, but not sad

By Harold Brummett Denmark Star Route   Memorial Day is next Monday, the 26th. This is a time ...

Religion

Story learned on Scouting trip has endured

By Les Ferguson, Jr. Columnist   I was never much into Scouting. I did spend some time as ...

Our View

Our View

In the charged atmosphere of local, state and national elections, readers often turn to trusted sources for clarity.  ...

Opinion

It’s the month of miracles

By Steve Stricker Columnist   May – My favorite month, birth month, month of Mary, month of miracles ...

Opinion

Real money always feels different

By TJ Ray Columnist   The very pleasant clerk took my $20 bill and stroked across it with ...

Columns

The Beacon, and trees, had a good run

By Harold Brummett Star Denmark Route   I had never known a time in Oxford without the Beacon.  ...

Columns

Don’t miss a pounding chance

By Bonnie Brown Columnist I can honestly say that I have cousins by the dozens.  My father was ...

Columns

Put on your cape and be a hero

By Les Ferguson Jr. Columnist   What would life be like without a hero? For as long as ...

Columns

Habemus Papam! We have a Pope!

By Steve Stricker Columnist   Fr. Joe Tonas, Pastor of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Oxford, MS ...

Opinion

Melting away our hangups

By T.J. Ray Columnist   Yesterday, with a handshake, I met a fellow I didn’t know. All the ...

Garden/Outdoors

Harvest time for family honey

By Harold Brummett Denmark Star Route   May has arrived and it feels like the June of my ...

Columns

May is a month for miracles

By Steve Sticker Columnist   Writing this on Thursday, May 1st – WHEW! It’s finally May, my safe ...

Opinion

How did we get so old so fast?

By Bonnie Brown Columnist Back many years ago, I had a fascination with magazines.  I remember we subscribed ...

Opinion

Should we have funerals for appliances?

By Les Ferguson, Jr. Columnist   I’m gearing up for a traumatic event. It’s coming. I suspect it ...

Columns

Our View

Although it’s still far from complete, the new interchange at University Avenue and Highway 7 is a much-welcome ...

Columns

Quinn Minute

By Rix Quinn Columnist I’ve always been jealous of people who discover their talents early. There was this ...

Columns

Column: Not illegal, but certainly disturbing

By T.J. Ray Columnist   Sun reflecting on the chrome grill of a huge pickup truck zooming up ...

University of Mississippi

UM students hold study-in protest

On Friday, May 2, the University of Mississippi Environmental Coalition organized a study-in protest on campus, in coordination ...

History

Ghost town residents provide lessons for today by working with scientists in 1800s to combat yellow fever

By Shirley Wimbish Gray Mississippi Today Given recent policy changes threatening the future of medical research and news ...

Opinion

Not for ourselves alone

By Harold Brummett Star Denmark Route   The Department of Mississippi Disabled American Veterans met from April 24-27 ...

Columns

Nothing beats a good ‘neah gebur’

By T.J. Ray Columnist   “Neah gebur” is the Anglo-Saxon origin of “neighborhood.”  It meant “nigh dweller.”  Time ...

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