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Thomas Crosby Boone, Victoria Leigh Whittington
Kandie Leigh Whittington of McComb announces the engagement of her daughter, Victoria Leigh Whittington, to Thomas Crosby Boone of Madison.
The bride-elect is the daughter of the late Joseph Troy Whittington. She is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Terry Glass and the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Criston Whittington, all of McComb.
The prospective bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Lee Boone of Madison. He is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Girault Weiler Jones of Grenada and Mrs. William Roy Boone and the late Mr. Boone of Ridgeland.
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Entergy Mississippi CEO Haley Fisackerly speaks with The Grenada Star's Publisher Adam Prestridge during his visit to view storm damage in Grenada Thursday afternoon.
Winter Storm Fern coated Grenada County and much of north Mississippi in a thick layer of ice last weekend, uprooting trees, snapping limbs and loading down power lines and poles, leaving thousands of Entergy Mississippi customers in the dark for days.
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Entergy Mississippi CEO Haley Fisackerly speaks with The Grenada Star's Publisher Adam Prestridge during his visit to view storm damage in Grenada Thursday afternoon.
Winter Storm Fern coated Grenada County and much of north Mississippi in a thick layer of ice last weekend, uprooting trees, snapping limbs and loading down power lines and poles, leaving thousands of Entergy Mississippi customers in the dark for days.
By Adam Prestridge on
2 months 1 week ago
Entergy Mississippi CEO Haley Fisackerly speaks with The Grenada Star's Publisher Adam Prestridge during his visit to view storm damage in Grenada Thursday afternoon.
Winter Storm Fern coated Grenada County and much of north Mississippi in a thick layer of ice last weekend, uprooting trees, snapping limbs and loading down power lines and poles, leaving thousands of Entergy Mississippi customers in the dark for days.
By Adam Prestridge on
2 months 1 week ago
Entergy Mississippi CEO Haley Fisackerly speaks with The Grenada Star's Publisher Adam Prestridge during his visit to view storm damage in Grenada Thursday afternoon.
Winter Storm Fern coated Grenada County and much of north Mississippi in a thick layer of ice last weekend, uprooting trees, snapping limbs and loading down power lines and poles, leaving thousands of Entergy Mississippi customers in the dark for days.
By Adam Prestridge on
2 months 1 week ago
Entergy Mississippi CEO Haley Fisackerly speaks with The Grenada Star's Publisher Adam Prestridge during his visit to view storm damage in Grenada Thursday afternoon.
Winter Storm Fern coated Grenada County and much of north Mississippi in a thick layer of ice last weekend, uprooting trees, snapping limbs and loading down power lines and poles, leaving thousands of Entergy Mississippi customers in the dark for days.
By Adam Prestridge on
2 months 1 week ago
Hospitals and health facilities in Mississippi are continuing to provide critical care to patients in the wake of a treacherous winter storm, even as they endure power outages, impassable roads and no running water.
Scott Simmons, Mississippi Emergency Management Authority’s external affairs director, said his agency is working to bring 30 generators to North Mississippi hospitals, long-term care facilities, nursing homes and warming centers. He said multiple locations had generators that failed over the weekend, and only some had come back online by Monday morning.
By Gwen Dilworth, Sophia Paffenroth and Allen Siegler - Mississippi Today on
2 months 1 week ago
Delta State’s nationally renowned NCAA Division II baseball team was supposed to open the 2026 season Friday against Harding (Arkansas) University in Cleveland.
That won’t happen. Boo Ferriss Field at Harvey Stadium on the DSU campus in Cleveland is covered in ice and snow. At noon Monday, the temperature was 21 degrees. The wind chill was 7. The weekend forecast is for more freezing temperatures. The DSU Statesmen are sometimes called the Fighting Okra, but they would be more like Eskimos if they played this weekend.
By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today on
2 months 1 week ago
Delta State’s nationally renowned NCAA Division II baseball team was supposed to open the 2026 season Friday against Harding (Arkansas) University in Cleveland.
That won’t happen. Boo Ferriss Field at Harvey Stadium on the DSU campus in Cleveland is covered in ice and snow. At noon Monday, the temperature was 21 degrees. The wind chill was 7. The weekend forecast is for more freezing temperatures. The DSU Statesmen are sometimes called the Fighting Okra, but they would be more like Eskimos if they played this weekend.
By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today on
2 months 1 week ago
Hospitals and health facilities in Mississippi are continuing to provide critical care to patients in the wake of a treacherous winter storm, even as they endure power outages, impassable roads and no running water.
Scott Simmons, Mississippi Emergency Management Authority’s external affairs director, said his agency is working to bring 30 generators to North Mississippi hospitals, long-term care facilities, nursing homes and warming centers. He said multiple locations had generators that failed over the weekend, and only some had come back online by Monday morning.
By Gwen Dilworth, Sophia Paffenroth and Allen Siegler - Mississippi Today on
2 months 1 week ago
Delta State’s nationally renowned NCAA Division II baseball team was supposed to open the 2026 season Friday against Harding (Arkansas) University in Cleveland.
That won’t happen. Boo Ferriss Field at Harvey Stadium on the DSU campus in Cleveland is covered in ice and snow. At noon Monday, the temperature was 21 degrees. The wind chill was 7. The weekend forecast is for more freezing temperatures. The DSU Statesmen are sometimes called the Fighting Okra, but they would be more like Eskimos if they played this weekend.
By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today on
2 months 1 week ago
As with tens of thousands of fellow Mississippians since a winter storm struck during the weekend, the Hood family of Oxford was coping with the loss of electricity as best they could early Monday in their Northpointe neighborhood home about 2 miles north of Square.
By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today on
2 months 1 week ago
Robert St. John says some drinks come and go. Trends pass through fast and leave just as quickly. Iced tea never left.
Iced tea has been called the house wine of the South. Rick Bragg once wrote that a glass of iced tea can tell you just about everything you need to know about where you are and who you’re with, and he wasn’t wrong. Around here, iced tea is just part of how things are done. It shows up early and sticks around.
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2 months 1 week ago
Below is a religion column by Matt Friedeman:
May we follow Paul’s example, cherishing and celebrating older men or women who have spent their lives in faithful service to God and others.
In a recent discipleship group meeting, as we were reading in 1 Timothy, one of the guys pointed out a verse on “widows” and commented, “Man, that is a perfect picture of the abundant life…a life well-lived.” It was. It is!
By Matt Friedeman - Magnolia Tribune on
2 months 1 week ago
Below is a political opinion column by Russ Latino:
It is rooted in a very old conservative belief that parents, not the government, are responsible for raising and educating their children. They do not belong to the state.
Social media in Mississippi is abuzz with misinformation and scare tactics over school choice after the Mississippi House of Representatives passed a Trump-backed plan to deliver meaningful options to families in the Magnolia State.
By Russ Latino - Magnolia Tribune on
2 months 1 week ago
Wilkinson County School District has a history of persistently poor academic performance and has not completed an annual financial audit since June 2022.
The Mississippi State Board of Education (MDE) recently announced that they had placed the Wilkinson County School District into a District of Transformation due to serious academic deficiencies. MDE said the deficiencies demonstrate the district’s inability to provide students with an adequate and stable education.
By Frank Corder - Magnolia Tribune on
2 months 1 week ago
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MAGEE, MS – In the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s timeless question, "What are you doing for others?" the Alpha Delta Rho Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.® spent the month of January mobilizing Simpson County for a common cause. On Monday, January 19, 2026, the chapter culminated its MLK Day of Service by delivering a massive collection of essential goods to local outreach shelters, Angel Wings and Means of Grace.
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MAGEE, MS – In the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s timeless question, "What are you doing for others?" the Alpha Delta Rho Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.® spent the month of January mobilizing Simpson County for a common cause. On Monday, January 19, 2026, the chapter culminated its MLK Day of Service by delivering a massive collection of essential goods to local outreach shelters, Angel Wings and Means of Grace.
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Wicker Supports Mississippi Relief Efforts
Disaster Relief Starts At Home
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 29, 2026
Contact: Katherine Robbins (202) 224-6253
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2 months 1 week ago
Wicker Supports Mississippi Relief Efforts
Disaster Relief Starts At Home
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 29, 2026
Contact: Katherine Robbins (202) 224-6253
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