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Kelly Kyle
Happy New Year. It’s not too late to consider your New Year resolutions for 2026! If you are making resolutions, you are with the majority of respondents of a recent survey. The top four resolutions for 2025 were, in no particular order, to eat better, exercise more, spend less money, and take better care of yourself. Results aren’t available to determine how effective those resolutions were, but I can tell you from personal experience having the appropriate legal documents in place in the event of disability or death did not even make the list.
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Green Oak Florist and Garden Center recently hosted its 65th Annual Open House at the Old Canton Road location in Jackson. Shoppers were provided with food, door prizes, photos with Santa, children’s activities, and local vendors. Shoppers were also given an exclusive look at holiday decor and inspiration. Attending were (from left) Beverly Varner, Stephan Parks, Becky Walker.
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In January 2016, the 50th anniversary of the 1966 killing of Vernon Dahmer Sr., the Mississippi Legislature honored him and his family in the Senate chamber. Afterward then-Sen. John Horhn, who introduced the measure, posed with the family and others, including Hollis Watkins, a civil rights activist who stayed with the family in 1961 and worked on voting rights. Credit: Jerry Mitchell/Mississippi Today
Mafia hitman Gregory Scarpa Sr. pocketed millions from drug dealing, donned a seven-carat pinky ring and shot to death so many people that he stopped counting at 50.
Oh, and he helped the FBI solve who killed Mississippi NAACP leader Vernon Dahmer Sr.
Hollywood plans to release a movie next year on Scarpa’s role in the Dahmer case, “By Any Means,” starring Mark Wahlberg as the mobster.
By Jerry Mitchell - Mississippi Today on
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Mississippi’s vaccination rate has thus far been keeping pace with or exceeding national averages. The U.S. is at risk of losing its measles elimination status if transmissions continue into next year.
As a new year begins, healthcare officials are advising residents to get vaccinated against preventable ailments including influenza and measles, especially in at-risk populations.
By Jeremy Pittari - Magnolia Tribune on
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Notes and quotes from the Sugar Bowl:
The biggest news of Sugar Bowl Media Day Tuesday was splendid news for Ole Miss football fans.
All American running back Kewan Lacy pronounced himself “ready to go” for Thursday’s Sugar Bowl match with Georgia, and his coach, Pete Golding, confirmed Lacy’s status, saying, “I couldn’t agree with him more!”
“I am excited to watch (Lacy) got out and play and play really well,” Golding said.
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The similarities of these two Sugar Bowl head coaches are many. Georgia football coach Kirby Smart’s dad was a high school football coach. So is Ole Miss coach Pete Golding’s daddy.
Smart played defensive back, safety to be exact. So did Golding.
When both Smart and Golding finished their playing days, they hired on as graduate assistant coaches at their alma maters.
Following those apprenticeships both Smart and Golding cut their coaching teeth in the Division II Gulf South Conference, Kirby at Valdosta State and Pete at his alma mater, Delta State.
By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today on
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Below is an opinion column by Sid Salter:
Columnist Sid Salter says in both eras, Mississippi benefited from a senator who understood defense not just as policy, but as economic reality.
Mississippi has enjoyed an outsized role in national defense for most of the modern era. From World War II airfields to Cold War shipyards to today’s cyber, space, and naval missions, the Magnolia State has long punched above its weight in the Pentagon’s ledger.
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Green Oak Florist and Garden Center recently hosted its 65th Annual Open House at the Old Canton Road location in Jackson. Shoppers were provided with food, door prizes, photos with Santa, children’s activities, and local vendors. Shoppers were also given an exclusive look at holiday decor and inspiration. Attending were (from left) Andrew, Shelby and Kalli Hedgepeth.
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Photo by Jenny Woodruff Wilson, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Green Oak Florist and Garden Center recently hosted its 65th Annual Open House at the Old Canton Road location in Jackson. Shoppers were provided with food, door prizes, photos with Santa, children’s activities, and local vendors. Shoppers were also given an exclusive look at holiday decor and inspiration. Attending were (from left) Jasmin, Katie and Flynn Graves.
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Photo by Jenny Woodruff Wilson, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Green Oak Florist and Garden Center recently hosted its 65th Annual Open House at the Old Canton Road location in Jackson. Shoppers were provided with food, door prizes, photos with Santa, children’s activities, and local vendors. Shoppers were also given an exclusive look at holiday decor and inspiration. Attending were (from left) Ava Price, Mary Crosby and Louis Roberts.
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Photo by Jenny Woodruff Wilson, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Green Oak Florist and Garden Center recently hosted its 65th Annual Open House at the Old Canton Road location in Jackson. Shoppers were provided with food, door prizes, photos with Santa, children’s activities, and local vendors. Shoppers were also given an exclusive look at holiday decor and inspiration. Attending were (from left) Beverly Carmical, Elyn and Taryn Terry.
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Photo by Jenny Woodruff Wilson, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Green Oak Florist and Garden Center recently hosted its 65th Annual Open House at the Old Canton Road location in Jackson. Shoppers were provided with food, door prizes, photos with Santa, children’s activities, and local vendors. Shoppers were also given an exclusive look at holiday decor and inspiration. Attending were (from left) Abby and Matthew Brann.
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Photo by Jenny Woodruff Wilson, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Green Oak Florist and Garden Center recently hosted its 65th Annual Open House at the Old Canton Road location in Jackson. Shoppers were provided with food, door prizes, photos with Santa, children’s activities, and local vendors. Shoppers were also given an exclusive look at holiday decor and inspiration. Attending were (from left) Kay Berry, John and Dre’ Helms.
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The order directs the Commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections to release Taylor within five days.
Governor Tate Reeves announced Wednesday that he has signed an Executive Order granting clemency to Maurice Taylor, who he said was illegally sentenced to 20 years in prison, with five years suspended.
Reeves’ order directs the Commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Corrections to release Taylor within five days.
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Photo by Jenny Woodruff Wilson, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Green Oak Florist and Garden Center recently hosted its 65th Annual Open House at the Old Canton Road location in Jackson. Shoppers were provided with food, door prizes, photos with Santa, children’s activities, and local vendors. Shoppers were also given an exclusive look at holiday decor and inspiration. Attending were (from left) Mindy Smith, Sandra Latham.
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Photo by Jenny Woodruff Wilson, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Green Oak Florist and Garden Center recently hosted its 65th Annual Open House at the Old Canton Road location in Jackson. Shoppers were provided with food, door prizes, photos with Santa, children’s activities, and local vendors. Shoppers were also given an exclusive look at holiday decor and inspiration. Attending were (from left) Talon, Robby and Belle Grantham.
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Photo by Jenny Woodruff Wilson, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Green Oak Florist and Garden Center recently hosted its 65th Annual Open House at the Old Canton Road location in Jackson. Shoppers were provided with food, door prizes, photos with Santa, children’s activities, and local vendors. Shoppers were also given an exclusive look at holiday decor and inspiration. Attending were (from left) Allyson, Melissa and Lily Ann Ward.
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Green Oak Florist and Garden Center recently hosted its 65th Annual Open House at the Old Canton Road location in Jackson. Shoppers were provided with food, door prizes, photos with Santa, children’s activities, and local vendors. Shoppers were also given an exclusive look at holiday decor and inspiration. Attending were (from left) Ruth Johnson, Judy Bass.
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What a glorious Christmas this was weather wise. For almost an entire week, temperatures shot up into the mid-70s with mild winds and no rain. What a treat.
Several of these days neared the all-time 180-year record highs for those dates. Folks flocked outdoors and the walking trails were full of families getting exercise and enjoying God’s beauty.
By Wyatt Emmerich - Publisher, Jackson Northside Sun on
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Photo by Jenny Woodruff Wilson, © 2025 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Green Oak Florist and Garden Center recently hosted its 65th Annual Open House at the Old Canton Road location in Jackson. Shoppers were provided with food, door prizes, photos with Santa, children’s activities, and local vendors. Shoppers were also given an exclusive look at holiday decor and inspiration. Attending were (from left) Lucas Posey, Michael Jones.
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