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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

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OMS students serve as Senate pages

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

News

City making inroads with Spanish-speaking community

Partnership will align academic resources with municipal priorities In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, cities worldwide faced ...

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

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Man, 67, arrested in domestic violence case

An investigation regarding a report of domestic violence resulted in a 67-year-old man being charged with Aggravated Domestic ...

March 4, 2024

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Assailant puts gun to officer’s head; Oxford police able to disarm

Oxford Chief of Police Jeff McCutchen said officers were reminded why no call is “routine” after having dealt ...

March 4, 2024

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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

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

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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

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Dental students visit Capitol

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

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 ...

February 28, 2024

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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

News

Oxford girls fall to Mantachie 3-2

February 27, 2024

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LCSD: Water Valley DUI felon charged with another DUI

On Feb. 22,  the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Department Dispatch received a call about a careless driver. The caller ...

February 26, 2024

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Oxford man charged with burglary, ‘felony malicious mischief’

On Feb. 7, the Oxford Police Department responded to a business in the 1400 block of North Lamar ...

February 26, 2024

News

OPD: Two charged in December storage unit theft

On Dec. 15, 2023, the Oxford Police Department took a burglary report from a storage unit off of ...

February 26, 2024

Lifestyle

Scholarship endowment honors Ole Miss alumnus

Fund honoring Daniel Clyde Hughes Jr. will help business students, Eagle Scouts By Tina H. Hahn UM Communications ...

February 25, 2024