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Natchez Trace Parkway Ranger recognized for Outstanding Work with Victims
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U.S. Attorney Scott Leary is proud to have recognized Law Enforcement Ranger Dylan Romine from the National Park Service on April 20, 2026, for his outstanding work and service on behalf of crime victims in the Northern District of Mississippi. Ranger Romine was given the Carolyn Clayton Victims’ Service Award as part of the District’s recognition of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week.
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Garden Club program highlights history, revival of carousel venue
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The April Meeting of the Little Garden Club was held at The Carousel House in downtown Kosciusko with Melissa Boswell Townsend giving a delightful program on the history of the merry-go-round and venue. In 2021, Mrs. Townsend purchased the former Hammond Hardware building. After much success with The Guitar Academy and Bed & Breakfast in that space, she began concentrating on the warehouse, which happened to house a carousel.
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Letters to the editor
Community News
By Jeanette Jackson McDaniel
Some memories from my childhood church at Clear Springs Baptist Church in the Shy community near Coffeeville, Mississippi — about 22 miles from Grenada — still feel as vivid as ever.
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Guest Opinion: Vital journalism is under stress
By Bill Crawford
The Mississippi Press Association, celebrating its 160th anniversary, held a forum highlighting local journalism last week at History Is Lunch in the Two Museums. MPA vice president Peter Imes, publisher of the Commercial Dispatch in Columbus, spoke of the vital role local journalism “plays at the grassroots level in our democracy” as he welcomed the panel.
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Peggy's Ponderings 04-30-2026
By Peggy Sims
Hasn’t the weather been beautiful? Even the rain that we so badly needed was wonderful and refreshing the earth and Me!
We have our little garden planted and it has “jumped up like weeds” with the so needed rain.
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The quiet responsibility of the ballot
The act of voting is often spoken of in the language of rights. Less frequently is it understood in the language of responsibility. Yet a functioning democracy depends not merely on the existence of the vote, but on the willingness of citizens to exercise it thoughtfully and deliberately.
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Olive honored as Who's Who at the University of Mississippi
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Hannah Olive, of Kosciusko, MS, majoring in Allied Health Studies, was recognized in the 2025-26 class of Who's Who Among Students at the University of Mississippi.
Olive was among more than 200 Ole Miss students who were honored with the distinction during a ceremony on April 10 at the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts.
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UM student Landon Jones inducted into Phi Kappa Phi
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Landon Jones, of Kosciusko, MS, majoring in Psychology, was among the more than 180 University of Mississippi students who were welcomed into the Phi Kappa Phi honor society, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honor societies for all academic disciplines. The university held an induction ceremony on April 9 at the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts on campus.
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Students break MSU communication awards record at MAB
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Students representing Mississippi State University’s Department of Communication, Media and Theatre, along with MSU’s radio station WMSV-FM 91.1 The Junction, earned more than two dozen student and professional honors at the Mississippi Association of Broadcasters Annual Awards this month, pushing the department past its previous record and to a new high of 102 awards during the academic year.
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“The Mississippi House of Representatives has passed legislation multiple times to address this and regulate it while keeping that revenue here, but it has yet to be taken up in the Mississippi Senate by Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann,” State Rep. Casey Eure said.
Mississippi’s Attorney General, along with attorneys general in 40 other states, have formed a coalition to provide assurance that the regulation power of “event contracts” for online sports-related betting falls to states, and not the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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In Flowood, Meagan Torrence has turned a parking space into her “Bless This Mess Garage Studio.”
Some of the best art in Mississippi right now isn’t happening in a studio with perfect lighting or white walls.
But it’s not where you might expect—rather, it’s happening in a garage.
In Flowood, Meagan Torrence has turned a parking space into her “Bless This Mess Garage Studio.” The name fits—canvases stacked, works in progress everywhere, and usually a five-year-old in the middle of it all.
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1 month 2 weeks ago
“The people of Jackson and the ratepayers of the system deserve better than having to ever go through that mess again,” Governor Reeves said of the Jackson water situation.
Following U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate’s order temporarily blocking the state law creating the new Metro Jackson Water Authority, Governor Tate Reeves (R) said Friday he would not be making his three appointments to the board at this time.
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1 month 2 weeks ago
All counties are underserved in adult day services, Ole Miss researchers find.
Some 80% of Mississippi counties have no adult day service centers, and even counties that do have centers cannot meet the needs of people with dementia and their caregivers, a new University of Mississippi-led study indicates.
This shortage leaves thousands of people with dementia – and their caregivers – without daily support.
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With two months remaining in the current fiscal year, Mississippi revenues are exceeding legislative estimates by $184.6 million through April.
A new report from the Legislative Budget Office on Monday shows total revenue collections in Mississippi for the month of April came in at $64.6 million, or 6.38% above estimates.
The LBO report also showed that the State of Mississippi has taken in $184.6 million, or 2.98%
more this fiscal year than estimated, with two months remaining in the 2026 Fiscal Year.
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1 month 2 weeks ago
Below is a political opinion column by Russ Latino:
The White House wants state lawmakers to axe Bennie Thompson from Congress, but the path to accomplish that task between now and November is unclear.
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1 month 2 weeks ago
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Mississippi has spent a lot of time in recent years reducing its income tax, to the point of eliminating it during the next decade if the state economy and the state budget cooperate.
Advocates contend this will make Mississippi more competitive with other states, specifically Texas, Florida and Tennessee, that do not tax their residents’ income, and would give more people an incentive to consider living here.
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The Attala County Coliseum will host Disaster Survivor Assistance Teams from the Federal Emergency Management Administration and the Small Business Administration Monday through Saturday, May 5-9. From 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. through Friday and 8 a.m. until Noon Saturday.
The assistance will be aimed at victims of the January ice storm, offering possibilities of individual assistance.
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1 month 3 weeks ago
Every congressional incumbent in the Magnolia State continues to far outpace their opponents, with little prospects of that changing down the stretch to the General Election.
Quarterly campaign finance reports were due to be filed with the Federal Election Commission last week as this year’s Mississippi midterm races hit another gear with less than seven months to go until the November General Election.
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