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Mona Lisa Lee
Lisa Lee, 61, passed away Sunday, February 8, 2026, at Baptist Attala in Kosciusko.
Funeral services were 11:00 AM Thursday, February 12, 2026, at Culpepper Funeral Home Chapel in Kosciusko. Burial followed at Parkway Cemetery. Visitation was from 9:00 AM until the service time Thursday.
Lisa is survived by her husband Roy Lee; sons Zach Lee (Amy) and Wesley Lee; brothers Hayden Self and Rob Howell; 9 grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
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James R. “Russ” Oliver
Russ Oliver, 71, passed away Wednesday, February 11, 2026, at his residence in Kosciusko.
No services will be held at this time.
Russ is survived by his life partner of 33 years Eula Mae Pollard and uncle Dr. Stanley Hartness.
He loved music and played the guitar and was an avid on-line reader and web user.
Russ is preceded in death by his parents James Dendy “Buster” and Gloria Hartness Oliver and an infant sister.
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I have always loved to read and study about the Amish peoples. If I were not a true Southern Baptist, I believe I would convert to the Old Order Amish religion. I so appreciate their peaceful calm tranquility in the ways of working and doing for others. I believe we could all learn from these serene people. The work ethic is so ingrained into them that they rise in the early morning hours to begin their work days and end with the dark to stop the laboring. The most worthy attribute of the Amish is their desire to care for their own.
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Tourism about to hit its stride
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THE BLESSINGS OF LIVING IN GOD’S PURPOSE
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Do you remember?
Uncle Bob used to say that when he could not remember someone's name that Sport, his bird dog, drew a blank also. He did let Sport ride in the cab of his F-100, and often his faithful companion would sit behind the wheel. Eventually Sport learned to put his paws on the steering wheel, and from a distance it would appear that he was driving. Uncle Bob enjoyed the wide-eyed gazes from those passing by on the dusty gravel road in front of his house, which was several hundred feet away.
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The University of Mississippi announced students named to the Fall 2025 Honor Roll lists, including Dean's Honor Roll.
Gracie Williams, of Kosciusko, MS, in the B.A. in Allied Health Studies program, is on the Dean's Honor Roll, which is reserved for students who earn a semester GPA of 3.50-3.74.
Anna Hedgepeth, of Kosciusko, MS, in the B.S.C.E. in Civil Engineering program, is on the Dean's Honor Roll, which is reserved for students who earn a semester GPA of 3.50-3.74.
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By Rev. Austin Bishop
12 “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come. 14 He will glorify me because it is from me that he will receive what he will make known to you.
— John !6:12-14 (NIV)
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University of Mississippi Medical Center has closed all of its clinics on Thursday to a cybersecurity attack.
UMMC issued the following statement:
"Due to a cybersecurity attack, many UMMC IT systems are down, including access to our electronic medical records, Epic.
"Today, all UMMC clinic locations statewide are closed. Outpatient and ambulatory surgeries/procedures and imaging appointments are cancelled and will be rescheduled. Hospital services are continuing for our patients using downtime procedures.
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The outrages keep piling up day after day. On February 6, 2026 at 5:44 in the morning, the Truth Social Account from “Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump” tweeted a 62-second video of former President of the United States Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as hairy, muscular apes, swaying in a jungle to music. I do not know how many overt racists there are in the United States of America. I venture there are not enough to keep either the President or his party in power.
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When I was a student teacher, I had a conversation with a science teacher I worked with about natural selection. I asked if she thought this process of survival of the fittest was a good thing. “Oh yes,” she replied quickly, “natural selection helps weed out the weaker of a species and makes the species stronger, which serves the greater good of the group.” I then asked her a follow-up question I had been genuinely curious about for a while.
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Every few years, it seems some folks wake up one morning and decide the real problem in Mississippi is that citizens know too much about what their government is doing.
This is one of those years.
The Mississippi Public Records and Open Meetings Acts are called our “Sunshine Laws” for good reason. They preserve the rights of citizens to know what their government is up to.
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The boom in manufacturing jobs President Donald Trump forecast last April has yet to loom much yet boom. “Manufacturers shed workers in each of the eight months after Trump unveiled ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs,” the Wall Street Journal reported this month.
In April 2025, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 12,847,000 manufacturing jobs. By October the number had fallen to 12,702,000 (seasonally adjusted), dropping to 12,692,000 in December (preliminary).
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Online sports betting is poised to become legal and regulated in Mississippi. Interestingly, the reasons given by many of our legislators for legalizing something that can be incredibly destructive are the same reasons many of us believe illicit drugs should be legalized and regulated.
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