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Thursday, Jan. 1 and Friday, Jan. 2 All Mid-Mississippi Regional Libraries will be closed in observance of the New Year’s Holiday.
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J.Z. George High School’s basketball teams played in the Murry Dixon Holiday Shootout Monday at Water Valley High School.
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The Carroll Academy Lady Rebels upped their record to 8-2 overall with a 50-36 win over Columbus Christian Monday at the Calhoun Academy Tournament.
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2 months 4 weeks ago
How much do we have left?
Time.
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2 months 4 weeks ago
Mississippi has been getting noticed lately for its academic and economic improvements. But other measuring sticks remain stuck, such as the high numbers of premature births and infants who die before their first birthday.
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2 months 4 weeks ago
With Christmas last week, we are now at the end of 2025 and the ringing in of New Year 2026, which comes with reflection on years gone by and looking forward to the New Year. From my earliest days growing up here in Carroll County of remembering New Year’s Eve bringing in the New Year, with the hope of the future as the clock struck mi
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Pictured, from the left: Dee Hudson, Ayden Johnson, Coach Deangelo Ballard, Alejandro White
Winona High School was represented by three players at Sunday's Magnolia Sports Association Super Sophomore All-star football game at East Central Community College
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3 months ago
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Pictured from left seated: Lauren Gardner and Chance McDavid of the Stennis Institute. Standing from left: Tim Climer of the Mississippi Development Authority, Carrollton Mayor Pam Lee, Itta Bena Mayor Mary Tyes-Williams, Carroll County Board of Supervisors President Jim Neill, Vaiden Mayor Leisa Williams Hemphill, and North Carrollton Mayor Ken Strachan.
Area officials participated in the Aspire Mississippi Economic Development Symposium in Jackson in Dec. Aspire is a team-based development program designed to help Mississippi communities lead economic progress. The keynote address was by Bill Cork of the Mississippi Development Authority.
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3 months ago
The following arrests were reported by local law enforcement agencies last week. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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3 months ago
The awards keep coming in for the 2025 Winona Christan School Stars. Ten members of the team who were instrumental in helping WCS to an 8-3 mark and the district title and a Class AA – Division 1 semifinal berth were named to the Class AA, All-District 2 squad recently.
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3 months ago
All the stockings, all twenty-four are hanging on the stairway in a row.
All of them empty as they wait for the happies, and all tied with a bow.
Alabama’s Christmas music fills the air all through the house.
Lights twinkle in five trees and throughout all the boughs.
It’s Christmas time and the “Kids” are coming home.
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3 months ago
Someone gets to take care of it!
All those ribbons, bows, and colorful paper; After all the Christmas presents are unwrapped!
As our family has grown, matured, added to, and changed: we have adapted to different ways of the tradition of “opening presents!”
I like everything wrapped!’
Some would rather have it in a bag—-easy peasy!
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3 months ago
Ever on the lookout for stuff I can reuse or recycle from holiday decorations, Christmas is second to none. Even better than composting Halloween pumpkins.
Back when I used to go with fresh-cut trees to decorate, I recycled them after the holidays. Each yielded beautiful evergreen needles perfect for garden mulch, plus a sack of kindling from cut-up branches and small stack of fast-lighting firewood logs.
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Winona Christian School senior running back Will Irwin had a final high school football game that most players can only dream about.
One of the top running backs in school history, Irwin capped off his high school career helping his team to an 8-2 mark in 2025. He rushed for more than 1,400 yards and scored more than 20 touchdowns. Irwin and his teammates lost in the semifinals of the Midsouth Association of Independent School’s Class AA to Lee Academy of Clarksdale.
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3 months ago
No Lane Kiffin - No Problem - for Ole Miss as they made Magnolia state history by playing in the first College Football Playoff game in our state’s history. The Rebels, ranked sixth in the CFP playoffs, defeated No. 11 Tulane, 41-10, in front of a record-breaking Vaught-Hemingway Stadium crowd of over 68,000. Quarterback Trinidad Chambliss ran for two scores and passed for another to lead the Rebels offense. The win was also the first for new Ole Miss head coach Pete Golding.
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3 months ago
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Winona's Alisha Taylor was named the Player of the Game for the Lady Tigers after they defeated Clarkdale High School 31-29 Saturday at the Philadelphia High Tournament. Presenting the award to Taylor is Philadelphia coach Danzel McCory.
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3 months ago
The Winona High School girls’ and boys’ soccer teams played only one time each last week with games against Riverside High School on Thursday getting rained out.
The Lady Tigers upped their record to 7-3-1 with a 6-2 win over Choctaw County High School Tuesday in Ackerman. Emily Casiday scored a team-high three goals, and Sofia Guzman had two goals. Mary Beth Brannon and Georgina Tyler had one goal each.
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3 months ago
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The J.Z. George girls brought home a winner’s trophy from the tournament at Eupora High School last Saturday. Members of the team are, from left, Cirena Reed, An’necieyunna Fleming, Kyleigh Sibley, Ja’Narri Pointer, Alaysha Bouldon, Madison Kyles, Kyndale Edwards, Katelyn Rice, Tysalyn Meeks, Kiyunna Ward, Jamiya Leahman, Alayah Herndon, Dakiya Robinson and head coach Jaquell Davis.
The J.Z. George girls’ basketball team moved to 9-5 with a 40-27 win over Eupora High School in the Curtis Ford Holiday Classic at Eupora.
The Lady Eagles held a slim 10-7 lead after the first period, but J.Z. George went in front 18-10 at the half with an 11-0 run in the second. Eupora pulled to within five at 27-22 after the third but a 13-5 run by the Lady Jags put the game out of reach.
Kyleigh Sibley led J.Z. George with 15 points, and Dakiya Robinson had seven. Tysalyn Meeks tacked on six points.
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3 months ago
The following arrests were reported by local law enforcement agencies last week. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
● Elbert Andrew Mathis of Winona was arrested on Dec. 17 by the WPD on the charges of possession of a controlled substance, with a bail set in the amount of $5,000, possession of paraphernalia, misdemeanor, improper use of out-of-state tag, misdemeanor, and possession of a controlled substance, with a bail set in the amount of $25,000.
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