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Good days flow just like the bad ones

By Steve Stricker Columnist   As I walked on the Ole Miss campus early on the gorgeous fall ...

Columns

What’s not to love on a big boat?

By Bonnie Brown Columnist Do y’all remember watching The Love Boat on TV?  It ran on ABC from ...

History

We were solemn, but not sad

By Harold Brummett Denmark Star Route   At the Lafayette County Memorial Day commemoration on Monday, we were ...

Columns

Chiggars, skeeters, and heavy duty itch cream

By Les Ferguson, Jr. Columnist   I have a complaint. As complaints go, there are plenty that are ...

Opinion

Mirror, mirror tells it all

By TJ Ray Columnist   After the fellow pushed his cart past mine in the grocery store and ...

Opinion

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 ...

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 ...

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