From Staff Reports
Two people are dead and another injured in an apparent murder-suicide Friday morning on Montgomery Street in Winona.
Students at J.Z. George High School are in their first full week of classes and are getting back into the swing of school. As doors opened on Wednesday, Aug. 7, students were met with shiny floors, clean classrooms, and positive affirmations as they began each day.
There will be a singing at the Black Hawk School on Saturday, Aug. 17. Featured guests are: Cowboy Church Gospel singers, Elliott Fancher and Band. Concessions will be available.
As Winona prepares for a scrimmage with Senatobia Friday and the season opener with Eupora a week later, Coach Joey Tompkins is pleased with the showing by the team's sophomores in practice.
Children in Carroll and Montgomery counties are nearing the end of their first week of school, and things are getting back into the school-year groove.
The Carroll Academy Lady Rebels broke into the win column last week with a pair of blowout wins.
The Lady Rebels got their first win with a 10-2 win over Jackson Victors on Monday and then hammered Humphreys Academy 21-2 on Tuesday.
Saturday Happenings
• There will be a singing at the Black Hawk School Singing at Saturday, Aug. 17. Featured guests are: Cowboy Church Gospel singers, Elliott Fancher and Band. Concession will be available.
Sunday Happenings
Carroll Academy football Coach Bo Milton knew going into the season that the Rebels would be thin at spots with only 22 players on the roster.
WINONA – Montgomery County law enforcement officers and first responders will go through a Mississippi Homeland Security-led training which will focus on active shooters in public places.
The Carroll County Board of Supervisors are reapplying for the 2019 HOME Project that will give some residents in the county much needed work on their homes for free, if the county is awarded the grant.
WINONA – The Winona Board of Aldermen accepted a bid of $417,350.50 to pave Powell Street and several surrounding streets during Tuesday’s regular meeting of the board.
Murphy Paving Company was awarded the lowest and best bid on the project.
The Bogue Creek Festival is coming back again this year.
Last year, the Duck Hill Lions Club almost hung it up, and it was announced that the festival was coming to an end because members were getting older and it was too much to handle.
Khalilah Tate is in her first full week as principal of Marshall Elementary School. Tate took over the position after former principal Fletcher Harges took a principal position at Greenwood High School, ironically where Tate is from.
From Staff Reports
Two people are dead and another injured in an apparent murder-suicide Friday morning on Montgomery Street in Winona.
Friday, when the news that Fred’s Dollar Store in Winona was set to permanently close in 30 days, the community response ranged from outrage to deep concerns about the future of Winona.
With schools starting back next week, teachers in Montgomery County will be attending an annual Professional Leadership Conference organized by the Winona-Montgomery Consolidated School District. The conference began today and will conclude tomorrow afternoon.
A Winona man will appear in Winona City Court today for a preliminary hearing.
Auntonio Hardy, 33, of Winona is charged with simple assault on medical personnel, a felony.
A Winona man was bound over to the action of a Montgomery County Grand Jury for allegedly breaking into Crow’s Nest and taking the cash register and all its contents – just hours after getting out of prison after being convicted for committing the identical crime.
The Achieving Sustainability through Education and Economic Development Solutions (ASEEDS) Partnership will convene a two day conference: Acting on Climate Together: Making Duck Hill and Montgomery County More Resilient and Sustainable.
Last year, Winona’s Anthony Richardson was in the learning stage.
With five seniors on the offensive line, Richardson was the first guy off the bench, rotating in on the line as the Tigers went through the regular season undefeated before losing in the third round of the Class 3A playoffs.
Mrs. Mary Jane Wilson Blair, 83, of the Jefferson Community in Carroll County, passed away Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018 in Oxford.
A Montgomery County man is in police custody in connection to a shooting in Carroll County.
According to Carroll County Sheriff Clint Walker, Michael Martin Barnhill, 30, is currently being held at the Carroll County Jail in connection with the deaths of three people in a shooting at a residence on County Road 135 Friday night.
Update (Wednesday, July 10): The two inmates who escaped the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Rankin County are now in custody.
Ivory Bell Bruce, 101 of Weir, died Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018 at her home.
The J.Z. George basketball teams were on the floor Tuesday night as they took on French Camp Academy in North Carrollton.
A suspect accused of shooting at a Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputy is in custody after an hours-long ordeal Sunday.
John Robert Boatman, 76, of Winona died at Winona Manor in Winona on Monday, Nov. 19, 2018.
Ollie Ruth Coleman, 81, of Starkville, formerly of Kilmichael and Kosciusko, died on Sunday, Dec. 2 at Carrington Nursing Center in Starkville
Mr. Ruel Ivoe Nix, 93, of Winona answered his last Marine Corps roll call at 5:25 a.m. on Saturday, December 1, 2018, at Life Pointe Village Assisted Living in Southaven.
Eddie L. Campbell, 71 of Winona, died Nov. 21, 2018 at his home.
Funeral services for Orvlie Hunt of Weir were held on Saturday, June 15, 2017, at First Unity United Methodist Church in Weir, with Rev. Lyndon Geeter officiating. Burial followed in the church cemetery in Weir.
This weekend, the Montgomery County Arts Council will present a special play inspired by the life of a special man.
On January 30, 2018, the Walmart store in Winona will close permanently.
According to Anne Hatfield, a spokesperson from the Walmart corporate office, the store’s 85 associates were told about the closure Wednesday morning.
WINONA – In an article published in the April 1989 issue of Mississippi Pharmacist magazine, Edwin G. “Sonny” Potts predicted that his one-year-old granddaughter, Jenny Claire, would one day be a pharmacist like himself and his daughter, Gay Potts Hammond.
Circuit Judge George Mitchell accepted plea agreements in Montgomery County Circuit Court Monday at the Montgomery County Coliseum.
Mrs. Mary Jane Wilson Blair, 83, of the Jefferson Community in Carroll County, passed away Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018 in Oxford.
NORTH CARROLLTON -- The murder of a young man and a house fire, occurring within hours of each other Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, appear to be connected, Carroll County Sheriff Clint Walker said.
The Carroll County Development Association honored Carroll County’s educators Monday night with a dinner at The County Barn in Carrollton. The 2018 Teachers of the Year and Special Recognition Award winners were honored at the event. (From left) J.Z.
A Montgomery County man is in police custody in connection to a shooting in Carroll County.
According to Carroll County Sheriff Clint Walker, Michael Martin Barnhill, 30, is currently being held at the Carroll County Jail in connection with the deaths of three people in a shooting at a residence on County Road 135 Friday night.
Update (Wednesday, July 10): The two inmates who escaped the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility in Rankin County are now in custody.
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