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Photo by Becky Dees, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
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
By Special to the Winona Times/Conservative on
2 months 4 weeks ago
Smoke billows from the home of the McKay family of Duck Hill early New Year's Eve morning. | Submitted Photo
A Montgomery County family counted their blessings as the New Year was ushered in following an early morning fire that destroyed their home New Year’s Eve morning.
The family of five, including three boys – ages 14, 9 and 5 – lost everything as a result of the blaze, which occurred in the 2800 block of Mississippi Highway 404 in Duck Hill.
Community members in both Montgomery and Grenada counties immediately began rallying together to assist the family with immediate as well as future needs.
By Adam Prestridge on
2 months 4 weeks ago
Notes and quotes from the Sugar Bowl:
The biggest news of Sugar Bowl Media Day Tuesday was splendid news for Ole Miss football fans.
All American running back Kewan Lacy pronounced himself “ready to go” for Thursday’s Sugar Bowl match with Georgia, and his coach, Pete Golding, confirmed Lacy’s status, saying, “I couldn’t agree with him more!”
“I am excited to watch (Lacy) got out and play and play really well,” Golding said.
By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today on
2 months 4 weeks ago
The similarities of these two Sugar Bowl head coaches are many. Georgia football coach Kirby Smart’s dad was a high school football coach. So is Ole Miss coach Pete Golding’s daddy.
Smart played defensive back, safety to be exact. So did Golding.
When both Smart and Golding finished their playing days, they hired on as graduate assistant coaches at their alma maters.
Following those apprenticeships both Smart and Golding cut their coaching teeth in the Division II Gulf South Conference, Kirby at Valdosta State and Pete at his alma mater, Delta State.
By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today on
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.
By Chuck Hathcock - Sports Writer on
3 months ago
Oh, come now. That’s only one out. Patrick Taylor has a whole batting order to face. He claims Trump is out with three strikes. (“Trump Has Not Met Expectations of His Supporters,” Northside Sun 12/12/26). OK, but we’re in only the second inning. I’m more than pleased with Trump’s performance after months and it’s a lot better than I thought it would be. There are inaccuracies coming out of Taylor’s hand and sloppy conflation of fact with fiction. Now Taylor is out of strikes and is beginning to throw only balls. My diagnosis: a debilitating case of TDS.
By Robert Penny on
3 months ago
On Wednesday, November 12th, 2025, I attended a breakfast at the Hilton Hotel on County Line Road. It was sponsored by the Jackson Greater Chamber with Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde Smith being the keynote speaker.
By Camille Wright on
3 months ago
After a parent dies, children commonly wish they had asked more questions about their family’s history. Anyone who has ever had that wish would find Christine Kuehn’s new book, Family of Spies, more than just interesting.
In her case the questions came late in her father’s life. And, as it turned out, they were not just about her father’s fighting on Okinawa, the Japanese island where, at age 19, he survived a 1945 battle in which 12,000 Americans were killed. All he would say about that was that he was glad he survived.
By Luther Munford on
3 months ago
This one slipped away in a hurry. You may be thinking I am referring to the 2025 hunting season, though it is fleeting, I am talking about the past year in general. Everyone told me the older you get the faster the years pass, though we all know time is constant. They must know something though because we’re in a brand-new calendar year now. So, what went well for you in 2025 and what did not? We all have challenges, but what can we do to somewhat ensure that the new year will go as we hope it will?
By Jeff North on
3 months ago
We talk Tulane-Ole Miss, the Blake Anderson hire at Southern Miss, Coach Larry Ladner’s legacy in Mississippi basketball, and the New Orleans Saints and their new franchise quarterback.
By Rick Cleveland and Tyler Cleveland - Mississippi Today on
3 months ago
Brand new Southern Miss head football coach Blake Anderson, introduced to a ballroom-full of enthused Golden Eagle fans here Monday afternoon, faces extremely difficult tasks, both immediate and long-term.
The immediate: His Eagles, who lost three of their final four regular season games, have little more than a week to prepare a date with the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers in the Dec. 23 New Orleans Bowl.
By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today on
3 months ago
The question on everyone’s mind: Does Ole Miss have a shot against mighty Georgia. The answer: Of course they do, but the Rebels will have to play their best game and hope Georgia doesn’t. The Cleveland boys also discuss the New Orleans and Duke’s Mayo bowls and the resurgent New Orleans Saints.
By Rick Cleveland and Tyler Cleveland - Mississippi Today on
3 months ago
Below is a press release from the Center for Economic Accountability:
A decade-long subsidy package for a Compass Datacenters project in Meridian, Mississippi has been selected as the nation’s “Worst Economic Development Deal of the Year” for 2025 by The Center for Economic Accountability.
By Press Release - The Center for Economic Accountability on
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!
By Connie Bunch - Columnist on
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.
By Felder Rushing - Columnist on
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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.
By Chuck Hathcock - Sports Writer on
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.
By Dale McKee - Columnist on
