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3 months 2 weeks ago
Oxford does not ease into Christmas. It makes a complete entrance—coat on, lights up, carols playing, the whole deal.
There are a lot of places to enjoy the holidays in Mississippi, but Oxford has always been my place. I don’t mean that casually—I mean “load up the boys, grab a Sonic drink for the road, and head toward the Square with the kind of excitement usually reserved for Christmas morning.”
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J.Z. George High School senior Nehemiah Williams was honored over the weekend as he was selected to the 2025 Mississippi Coaches All-State football team in Class 2A as a linebacker.
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JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) is seeking applications from high school sophomores to serve as the new high school junior student representative on the SBE for the 2026-27 school year. Application deadline is Jan. 30, 2026.
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From left to right: Layla Peacock - Chapter Winner, Norma Biggers - Chapter Regent, Harper Neese - Chapter Winner.
The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) held its annual American History essay contest on the topic "Lunch with a Signer." The Thomas Rodney Chapter winners are Layla Peacock and Harper Neese, seventh graders at Winona Secondary School.
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Last week I, along with other county and municipal officials attended the Aspire Symposium at the Sun-n-Sand Conference Center on Lamar Street in Jackson. This is the location of the once was Sun-n-Sand Motor Hotel which was an institution for politics for over four decades.
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The Carroll County Tax Office has officially partnered with PayStar, the electronic bill payment processor, to launch the new Carroll County Tax Collector website. The contract was approved at the November 3 Board of Supervisors meeting, and the website went live at the end of November around the holidays.
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Pictured from the left, back row: Beat 3 Supervisor Dill Tucker, Beat 4 Supervisor Claude Fluker, Beat 2 Supervisor Josh Hurst, Beat 5 Supervisor Randy Browning. Front Row: Chancery Clerk Casey Carpenter, Tax Assessor Tammy Johnson, Beat 1 Supervisor Jim Neill, GLCEDF Executive Director Thomas Gregory, Circuit Clerk Durward Stanton, EDF Board of Directors Member David O'Bryan, and Sheriff Clint Walker.
Monday, Nov. 24 the Carroll County Board of Supervisors held their regularly scheduled month end meeting at the Carrollton Courthouse. The prime matter of business discussed during this meeting was regarding the prospective partnership with the Greenwood Leflore Carroll Economic Development foundation. To introduce the topic, the Board heard from the foundation’s Executive Director Thomas Gregory.
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WINONA, Miss. — The Montgomery County Board of Supervisors on Monday approved a five-year renewal for the county’s 911 call-taking system and set the stage for 2026 purchasing, during its regular meeting at the county courthouse.The board met in regular session at 8 a.m. Dec.
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Three members of the Winona High School football team were selected to the 2025 Mississippi Coaches All-State football team in Class 3A. The three chosen are Alejandro White, linebacker; Yoshawn Hudson, athlete; and Neal Roberts, offensive line.
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At approximately 9 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9, the Montgomery County Emergency Operations Center received a 911 call reporting a house fire at 1804 Alva Stage Rd in the Lodi community. Montgomery County Sheriff’s Deputy Braxton Moore was first on scene and quickly discovered there appeared to be an individual trapped. Deputy Moore reportedly attempted entry, however was unsuccessful in his efforts.
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3 months 2 weeks ago
I recently downloaded ChatGPT and asked: What are the three top reasons why an undecided person would choose to support President Trump? It replied: (1) Economic Priorities and Policy Preferences; (2) Immigration and Border Policy; (3) Distrust of Political Establishment. Let’s see what the scoreboard says about each.
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3 months 2 weeks ago
I only recently learned what a “groyper” is - you may or may not be familiar with the term?
From what I can tell, a groyper is a hardline white nationalist. Often anti-Semitic, groypers are hostile to mainstream conservatives. To the extent they have a coherent agenda, groypers seem more national socialism than free-market capitalism.
Having been involved in the conservative movement for three decades, I’d hesitate to call anyone with such views conservative. Indeed, I’d argue people that think like that are essentially hardline leftists.
By Douglas Carswell - Mississippi Center for Public Policy on
3 months 2 weeks ago
For the most recent decades of my 87 years, Vietnam’s position on my vacation bucket list mirrored the rank of casinos on my list of steps to ensure a comfortable retirement. I have friends who vacationed there and loved it, and I had friends who got sent there and came back in a box. Other friends returned damaged, and a disturbing number of them died young. My own years of military service during the 1960s took me nowhere near Vietnam; even so, I wasn’t interested in seeing the place. That changed last October.
By William Jeanes on
3 months 2 weeks ago
My grandmother lived on Cloverleaf Circle in my early years. Her home was located just a few blocks west of Bailey Avenue, just off Palmyra Street. Homes on her street were wood- framed, simply- built houses of no more than 1,000 square feet.
My family would go for an obligatory visit each Sunday, following lunch at Morrison’s cafeteria in the old Milner Building on South Lamar Street. My brother and I quickly became bored with the small talk and heavy cigarette smoke from the adults in the tiny living room and would retreat to her backyard.
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I thought retirement meant no more corporate meetings, no more trade shows, no more deadlines, etc. However, last week I found myself in Baton Rouge doing what I have been doing for the last 25 years. Before I continue, Coach Kiffin was not part of the equation even though he was still “talk” of the town in tiger land. I suppose old habits are hard to break as I helped old colleagues with the booth preparation at the annual Louisiana Mosquito Control Association meeting.
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3 months 2 weeks ago
Below is a press release from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics:
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released their State Employment and Unemployment Summary for September of 2025.
Unemployment rates were higher in September in 8 states, lower in 2 states, and stable in 40 states and the District of Columbia, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Eighteen states and the District had jobless rate increases from a year earlier, 9 states had decreases, and 23 states had little change.
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3 months 3 weeks ago
Northsider Pete Perry is headed to the United States Supreme Court. That’s a big deal.
Pete Perry is one of two individual plaintiffs named in a legal issue involving how election rules are set. The lawsuit pits the Republican Party of Mississippi against the State of Mississippi. The issue is whether mail in ballots have to be received by the constitutionally mandated election date or whether they can be postmarked by that date and physically arrive days later.
Or to put more exactly, quoting the petition for writ of certiorari:
Question Presented
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