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The Kosciusko Rotary Club recognized a year of growth and service while hosting author Rhonda DiBiase as its featured speaker during a recent meeting, highlighting both the club’s achievements and a message of faith shaped through personal loss during its April 13 meeting.s
DiBiase, a Mississippi native and member of Rotary International, spoke to the club about her newly published memoir, “Fear Finds Faith,” which chronicles her experience navigating her mother’s prolonged illness and death and the spiritual questions that followed.
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Warm wood. Low conversation. The easy clink of glasses somewhere across the room. It’s a restaurant, yes—but it feels more like a place people settle into.
Have you ever planned a simple weekend getaway—and then found yourself still thinking about one meal long after you’ve come home?
That’s what happened to us in Vicksburg.
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My birth certificate states that I was born at 8:30 a.m. on May 11, 1951, in the old Baptist Hospital on North State Street in Jackson.
Nothing extraordinary about that.
However, my paternal grandfather, Robert Cleveland Smith, died at 2:30 p.m. later the same day, two floors above the nursery where I lay in a bassinet, contemplating my arrival.
Very unusual start.
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Day 1
It has been a long time since I have documented any trips but a trip to the Okefenokee Swamp was something I wanted to share. It began on Wednesday March 11th – in fact, the day before my friend of over 40 years, Joel Mulkin, called and suggested we ride together. Something told me this was a good plan. At 3:30 a.m. on the 11th I began the drive to Birmingham. We needed to be at the Stephen C. Foster State Park by five Eastern Standard Time to check in for our campsite.
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The national debt is nearing $40 trillion, passing $39.5 trillion this month. The projected budget deficit this year, before the Iran not-war happened, was $1.9 trillion. Proposed extraordinary spending now pending in Congress could push this year’s deficit beyond $2 trillion.
The staggering amount of debt itself helps generate huge budget deficits. The interest on the debt this fiscal year is projected to hit $1 trillion for the first time. That amounts to 15% of total government spending. It is projected to grow as the debt continues to escalate.
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Mississippi’s senior US Senator, Roger Wicker, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, continues to support Ukraine’s fight to preserve its freedom and democracy from Russian invasion. He notes “Vladimir Putin is a war criminal, a KGB alumnus, and oppressor of the Russian people” who threatens NATO and the West as its eastern flank.
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Mississippi has now seen the data center problem from three vantage points.
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Bob Crechale died on Christmas Eve 2025. His restaurant closed on February 14, 2026 (Valentine's Day). This was indeed the end of an era.
I grew up in Greenville and came to Jackson in 1964 to go to school. Then after spending two years in the Air Force I returned to Jackson in 1974. Over the course of time, I began to realize that most of the best restaurants in the city of Jackson were owned and operated by Greeks. Before coming to Jackson, I had dined only at the Rotisserie, the Belmont, and a Primos.
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Students break MSU communication awards record at MAB
STARKVILLE, Miss.—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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MDOC Hosts Statewide Training and Panel Discussion for National Crime Victims’ Rights Week
JACKSON, MS (April 22) – A training designed to enhance awareness and promote public safety for crime victims across the state will be held on Friday, April 24th in observance of National Crime Victims’ Rights week.
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Propagation tricks
By Felder Rushing 04-23
Sounds mathematically impossible, but gardeners routinely divide to multiply. Using a few simple plant propagation tricks, we can increase what we start with and spread it to all corners of our gardens and beyond.
Nothing new, this is how folks have shared the largesse for thousands of years, saving seed, dividing multiple-plant clumps, rooting stem and leaf cuttings, and a few other approaches to growing more than what we start with.
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Researchers Show How Simple Magnets Can Help Solve a Complex Problem
Magnetic fields assist in recovering valuable metals from waste
OXFORD, Miss. – From cell phones to wind turbines and missile defense systems, modern technologies depend on critical minerals like rare earth elements. As demand grows, researchers are exploring more efficient and adaptable methods to recover and reuse these materials.
A new study suggests that magnets make the process more efficient.
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Barnes earns SBA Veteran
Small Business honor
By Nathan Gregory
MSU Extension Service
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- The U.S. Small Business Administration’s Mississippi District Office has named a Mississippi State University Extension professor as the state’s 2026 Veteran Small Business Champion of the Year in recognition of his work mentoring veteran entrepreneurs.
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MSU earns $3 million NSF award to advance smart agriculture, rural energy innovation
STARKVILLE, Miss.—A team of Mississippi State faculty has been awarded a $3 million National Science Foundation Research Traineeship grant to build the workforce needed to support resilient rural energy infrastructure.
The grant establishes the cross-disciplinary initiative Smart Agriculture Energy Innovation Network, or SAGEIN.
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Cynthia Ann Stonestreet Lassiter, 77, passed away peacefully at home on April 14, 2026, surrounded by family and friends. True to her character, she gracefully and bravely fought a battle with cancer.
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Gov. Tate Reeves recently signed into law a bill known as the Mississippi Keeping Kids Safe Online Act. Patterned after laws in California and New Mexico, Mississippi’s version puts more responsibility on social media companies for the products they encourage young people to use.
A story on the Magnolia Tribune website said, for starters, that social media websites must have written permission from parents before a Mississippi minor can legally use the site. Further, platforms that make inaccurate claims about their websites’ safety features can be fined $10,000 by the state.
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Below is an opinion column by Mike Chaney:
Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney, also the State Fire Marshall, says in Mississippi, we take that responsibility seriously, which is why we continue to lead on emergency preparedness.
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For the 50 percent of Mississippians who enjoy a glass of wine with their meal, the last few months have been educational as the state-run Alcohol Beverage Control warehouse has been in disarray.
Mississippi has the fifth lowest alcohol consumption in the nation at 2.17 gallons per year. Utah is the lowest at 1.34 followed by West Virginia, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Georgia.
Roughly 30 of Mississippi’s 82 counties are dry in some fashion. Many of these “dry” counties are considered “moist” since towns and cities within those counties are wet.
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Columnist Sid Salter recently spoke at the Lowndes County Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony. He reflects on the honorees.
The rise of county-level sports halls of fame around Mississippi has provided an opportunity for communities to honor excellence. Lowndes County and Scott County are two venues where the programs are thriving, and overdue recognition is being celebrated.
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