 Country music star Steve Azar (center) is pictured with Bobby Benton (left) and Wes Benton after meeting at Stub’s in Yazoo City Tuesday. The three were meeting to discuss the upcoming Sun and Sand Festival on the Gulf Coast in November. By TAYLOR MITCHELL
Sports Editor
Country music is one of the most popular genres of music in Mississippi. One of the state’s most popular country music artists, Steve Azar, is a native of the Mississippi Delta and Greenville.
Those who chose Stub’s Restaurant as their lunch of choice Tuesday afternoon were surprised to see the Delta native sitting at one of the many tables.
Azar was joined by Wes and Bobby Benton, of Red Planet Entertainment, who are putting on the inaugural Sun and Sand Festival, a film and musical festival, along the Mississippi Gulf Coast from Nov. 7-11. Over lunch, the three creative minds discussed various aspects of the festival, including the impact it can have on Mississippi’s creative economy.
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 Yazoo County relatives of the late Brandon Michael Fugate donated a side scan sonar unit to the Yazoo County Dive Team on behalf of the BMF Project, an organiztion founded in Fugate’s honor. Pictured from left are (front) Kaye Louise Purvis, Tolar Purvis and Holly Purvis, (back) Brandi Carter, Jay Wistead, Sheriff Jake Sheriff and Michael McCain. By JASON PATTERSON
Editor & Publisher
After enduring nearly a month of helplessly waiting while search teams combed the water for the body of their son, a Texas family is determined to keep others from having to endure that experience.
After purchasing a high tech device to give them an edge in fishing tournaments, an Illinois couple located a car at the bottom of the Mississippi River that belonged to a retired school teacher who had been missing for three years.
These two unrelated events led to a movement to improve search and rescue teams around the country. Yazoo County’s Dive Team was one of the latest groups to benefit.
Like most rural search and rescue teams, Yazoo County’s Dive Team has very limited resources. It’s a volunteer effort, and much of the equipment has been donated or purchased through fundraisers.
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By JAMIE PATTERSON
Managing Editor
Investigators continue to search for leads with two armed robberies at separate businesses on Jerry Clower Boulevard this week.
Chief Eric Snow said the first armed robbery occurred on Friday, with the second one on Monday. Both robberies occurred at businesses next door to each other.
“We are hoping these are isolated incidents, but we aren’t ruling anything out,” Snow said.
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 Omie Wall Parker’s recently added marker is next to the Herschel Brickell memorial.By JAMIE PATTERSON
Managing Editor
The Henry Herschel Brickell Memorial Literary Walkway at the Ricks Memorial Library continues to grow with the recent addition of ten new authors.
Over 100 published Yazooan writers are included on the brick walkway that pays homage to Brickell, a native son who traveled the world as a writer, literary critic, scholar and editor.
“We try to recognize people from Yazoo who made literary contributions,” said John Ellzey, reference librarian and local historian. “We honor writers, photographers, publishers, newspaper people and others.”
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 FielderBy JASON PATTERSON
Editor & Publisher
A Yazoo City man is charged with felony child abuse after allegedly shaking an infant so violently that it caused major head trauma.
Grady Fielder III, 42 of 50 Banks Lane, was arrested by the Yazoo County Sheriff’s Department after a two month investigation.
Tommy Irvine, chief investigator, said he conducted a thorough investigation along with medical examiners and the Department of Human Services.
“Any time there is an incident involving a child, we are going to be looking at everything very closely,” Irvine said. “The evidence clearly suggests that this child was abused.”
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