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LMSD board reviews finances, leases and desegregation order
By Staff Reports
Winston County Journal
The Louisville Municipal School District Board of Trustees met March 5, approving routine financial matters, property leases and hearing a detailed legal update on the district’s longstanding desegregation order.
Board President Brenda Johnson called the meeting to order, with Vice President Thomas M. Dowd, Secretary Renee P. Jones, Assistant Secretary John C. Wilkes and member Jacqueline Steele present.
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LMSD board reviews finances, leases and desegregation order
By Staff Reports
Winston County Journal
The Louisville Municipal School District Board of Trustees met March 5, approving routine financial matters, property leases and hearing a detailed legal update on the district’s longstanding desegregation order.
Board President Brenda Johnson called the meeting to order, with Vice President Thomas M. Dowd, Secretary Renee P. Jones, Assistant Secretary John C. Wilkes and member Jacqueline Steele present.
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Winston supervisors approve routine business
By Staff Reports
Winston County Journal
The Winston County Board of Supervisors met March 2 and handled a full agenda that included insurance renewals, routine financial approvals and updates from county departments. The board also addressed new weight hauling rules- which will appear in a future edition.
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UM Graduate, Greenwood Native Honors Former Professors
Matching gift to School of Accountancy building fund will name two offices
OXFORD, Miss. – A $100,000 gift to the University of Mississippi will name two faculty offices in the new Patterson School of Accountancy.
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Easter – Palm Sunday
By Lee Ann Flemming
Easter has always been one of my favorite holidays. After a long cold winter, spring is in the air. Well, sometimes – I remember having snow on the ground one year when I was a child. There we were in our Easter outfits, shivering while we stood in the snow to have our annual holiday photo made.
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Full Circle: 60 Years Later, Law School Reflects on Defining Moment
Alumni gather with Kathleen Kennedy Townsend to celebrate event that reshaped dialogue, free expression
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi's Tad Smith Coliseum hosted its last crowd Wednesday (March 18), exactly 60 years to the date when its historic first crowd gathered in 1966 to hear U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy speak at the invitation of the School of Law Speakers Bureau.
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MSU Extension hosts
forest regeneration workshop
By Nathan Gregory
MSU Extension Service
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Landowners, foresters and loggers interested in cost-effective reforestation strategies are invited to attend a Natural Forest Regeneration Workshop in Noxubee County.
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Mississippi Entrepreneurship Forum to Convene at Insight Park
Annual statewide higher education gathering will be April 9-10 at Ole Miss
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi will host the 2026 Mississippi Entrepreneurship Forum on April 9-10, bringing together leaders from public and private institutions of higher education across Mississippi to share campus-based entrepreneurship efforts.
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Bark beetles threaten
ice-damaged timber
By Susan Collins-Smith
MSU Extension Service
RAYMOND, Miss. -- Mississippi State University Extension Service forestry specialists are encouraging timberland owners to keep a watchful eye on their property for signs of bark beetles and disease after January’s ice storm.
Of Mississippi’s five species of bark beetles, the three species of Ips engraver beetles and southern pine beetles, or SPB, raise the most concern. Black turpentine beetles are not as common or as deadly and are of least concern.
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Register by March 31
for watermelon event
By Bonnie Coblentz
MSU Extension Service
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- March seems early to think about watermelons, but now is the time to register for a summer field day that provides extensive information on growing these juicy treats.
Mississippi State University’s 2026 Watermelon Field Day is set for July 22 at the R.R. Foil Plant Science Research Center, commonly known as North Farm. Registration is free through March 31 and will cost $50 per person starting April 1.
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On Saturday, April 4th the Hattiesburg Zoo will host its annual EGGZ-OTIC - Not Your Average - Egg Hunt!
The Hattiesburg Zoo’s Egg Hunt is not your average, run-of-the-mill, hide-and-go-seek egg grab! As usual, the Hattiesburg Zoo is putting their own eggz-citing spin on an annual tradition. No need to bring an egg basket, but you will need to bring your eggz-tra special hunting skills to find one of the 250 well-hidden eggz.
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Important state and national stories, market and business news, sports and entertainment, delivered in quick-hit fashion
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Important state and national stories, market and business news, sports and entertainment, delivered in quick-hit fashion
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Important state and national stories, market and business news, sports and entertainment, delivered in quick-hit fashion
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Conville is Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies and Service Learning at the University of Southern Mississippi and a long-time resident of Hattiesburg, where he is a member of University Baptist Church. He can be reached at rlconville@yahoo.com.
James Talarico has figured prominently in the news and on social media lately, especially so after he defeated incumbent Democratic US Representative, Jasmine Crockett, in the Texas Democratic primary. In the November general election, he will face either incumbent Republican US Senator, John Cornyn or the current Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton.
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Even in this super-colorful Springtime, let’s slow down to appreciate a handful of peculiar, often underappreciated oddities that adorn other landscape plants.
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Even in this super-colorful Springtime, let’s slow down to appreciate a handful of peculiar, often underappreciated oddities that adorn other landscape plants.
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Were you raised to be independent?
Taught to think for yourself? Taught to take care of your own problems and solve them?
I sure was.
But there have been times when I have faced the overwhelming feeling of utter helplessness. Notice I said, “feeling.” Being a feeling, the helplessness was no less real to me at the time.
If you stop and think about it, what can you really control? What can you do in many instances that rear up to threaten you and yours?
By Connie Bunch - Columnist on
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Photo by Photo special to The Times/Conservative, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Were you raised to be independent?
Taught to think for yourself? Taught to take care of your own problems and solve them?
I sure was.
But there have been times when I have faced the overwhelming feeling of utter helplessness. Notice I said, “feeling.” Being a feeling, the helplessness was no less real to me at the time.
If you stop and think about it, what can you really control? What can you do in many instances that rear up to threaten you and yours?
By Connie Bunch - Columnist on
1 week 2 days ago
Photo by Photo special to The Times/Conservative, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
I am astonished at how fast this spring has happened here on Circle S.
It seems just like last week Roy, and I were sitting in our keeping room bundled in multi-layers of blankets as our electricity was down and so was our generator. Now we are sitting on our back porch listening to the birds sing and watching the cattle graze on the bright green grass that is growing in the pasturelands.
It somehow sneaks up on me every year but this time it was spontaneous as it was freezing one day and the next short sleeve weather. Instantaneous!
By Peggy Sims - Columnist on
