CARROLLTON – A teen is currently being held without bond for allegedly making threats against his fellow students at Carroll Academy.
The Winona –Montgomery Consolidated School District held an active shooter drill Wednesday morning at Winona Secondary School. Dr.
WINONA -- For the second year in a row, J.J. Evans’s Pinewood car took first place at Winona Cub Scout Troop 4039’s annual Pinewood Derby, edging out Ben Rosamond’s car by a nose. Liam Green finished with third place honors.
WINONA – The Winona-Montgomery Consolidated School Board of Trustees voted last week to make a change in the leadership at Winona Secondary School. Donna Bishop, former assistant principal, was promoted to interim principal of the school, and Michael Guttuso, former principal, will assume the role of assistant principal.
The J.Z. George girls basketball team got off to a good start in Region 2-2A play with a 44-29 victory over Eupora High School last Friday in Eupora.
The Winona Christian boys won two out of three basketball contests last week, including a big district win over Indianola.
The Stars beat Lee (Ark.) 73-50 and Indianola 61-42 but lost a non-district game to Canton 52-49.
The Winona boys basketball team won two of three games last week, with victories over Amanda Elzy 60-54 and East Webster 52-45. The loss was to Coahoma Early College 103-25.
“.....And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.” –Dr. Martin L.
The Carroll Academy Rebels post two big district wins this week in convincing fashion. The Rebels hammered Central Holmes 71-43 and then pounded Indianola 69-26.
The Lady Rebels split their two games last week, beating Indianola 34-28 but falling to Central Holmes 54-44.
WINONA – The Winona Board of Aldermen appointed a new board member to the Winona-Montgomery Consolidated School Board of Trustees at their Tuesday night meeting.
KILMICHAEL – The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department apprehended a man Sunday night who is wanted in Tennessee for first degree murder and attempted murder.
According to Montgomery County Sheriff Jeff Tompkins, Marcus Holman, 32, was arrested at a residence in Kilmichael just before 6 p.m. tonight.
District Attorney Doug Evans has voluntarily recused himself from the future prosecution of Curtis Giovanni Flowers, and he has asked the court to appoint the Mississippi Attorney General’s office as lead prosecutor on the case.
This week, Montgomery County Sheriff Bubba Nix will begin a new challenge in a different field. After nearly 26 years in law enforcement, Nix has accepted the position as manager of Bella Mia Ranch, a 1,000 acre hunting camp in Montgomery County.
“I’m as happy as I can be,” Nix said of his new endeavor.
KILMICHAEL – The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Department apprehended a man Sunday night who is wanted in Tennessee for first degree murder and attempted murder.
According to Montgomery County Sheriff Jeff Tompkins, Marcus Holman, 32, was arrested at a residence in Kilmichael just before 6 p.m. tonight.
Winona native J. Colt Tabor is announcing his intention to run for mayor of the City of Winona in the 2021 municipal election.
“My late grandfather, John M Tabor, Jr., known by most as ‘Johnny,’ was the owner of Tabor Brothers Auto Supply Company and Central Automotive Warehouse,” said Tabor.
This year’s version of the All-Crossroads football team is the most versatile — both offensively and defensively — all-area unit put together in recent memory.
Benefit for Mazelee and Mina Fulgham
Male inmates in Montgomery County may be headed back to the Carroll-Montgomery Regional Correctional Facility upon approval from the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors.
#1 Carpenter wins clerk’s seat, Neal re-elected in 2019
This year saw a new four year terms for many incumbents in Carroll County and new faces as well.
WINONA – The Montgomery County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to enter into an agreement with the Carroll-Montgomery Regional Correctional Facility to house male inmates for the next two years.
A Winona man’s bond was reduced to $25,000, and he was bound over to the action of a Montgomery County Grand Jury for an aggravated assault. However, he’s currently out on bond and facing a grand jury for another aggravated assault.
James L. "Jake" Harris Sr.,85, died Friday March 15 at his home and Jean Claire Holloway Harris, 84, of Winona died Saturday, March 30 at University of Mississippi Medical Center in Grenada.
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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Zion Chapter No. 128 Order of the Eastern Star Spring Tea
Joe Terrell Tenhet, 58, of Memphis, Tenn., passed away Friday, October 4, 2019, at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis. due to a brain aneurysm suffered on October 1.
A Service of Thanksgiving celebrating Terrell's life was held on Sunday, October 6, at his church, First Congregational Church, Memphis, Tenn.
Robert N. Montana Jr. of Kilmichael passed away at Tyler Holmes Memoral Hospital in Winona on Monday, June 24, 2019.
A Montgomery County child is in critical condition at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson after he was attacked by six dogs while riding his bike Friday afternoon on Sawyer Road.
The last of Tuesday’s ballots have finally been counted.
After all ballots have been counted in Montgomery County, Ronald White unseated Incumbent Janet Roby-Harper by five votes, while two races are going to a run-off on Aug. 27.
White received 283 votes, and Roby-Harper received 277 votes.
From Staff Reports
Two people are dead and another injured in an apparent murder-suicide Friday morning on Montgomery Street in Winona.
This weekend, the Montgomery County Arts Council will present a special play inspired by the life of a special man.
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.
The Winona Christian School Stars will travel to Greenville Friday night to take on the St. Joseph Fight Irish in the first round of the MAIS playoffs.
Stars Head Coach Junior Graham said the MAIS playoffs are made up of the top 16 power points teams on a bracket system.
Friendship with Nicole Marhold started by chance.
“It has turned into something really amazing,” the 19-year-old Black Hawk resident said.
Ferguson’s friend, Marhold, is an 18-year-old from im Burgenland, St. Margarethen, Austria, and the two have been pen pals for the past several years.
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.
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.
A Vaiden man will face a Montgomery County Grand Jury for child molestation.
Justin Cooper, 30, of Vaiden is charged with molesting a child for lustful purposes in connection with incidents that occurred in Winona between December 15 and 18.
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.
A Winona man’s bond was reduced to $25,000, and he was bound over to the action of a Montgomery County Grand Jury for an aggravated assault. However, he’s currently out on bond and facing a grand jury for another aggravated assault.
