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Soul City Solar Awards $40,000 to Hinds County Nonprofits in Inaugural Round of Community GrantsHeadline News
The company planning a new solar farm between Bolton and Raymond is partnering with several local organizations to ensure that the project's benefits are felt broadly throughout Hinds County. Soul City Solar is awarding...
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Raymond Chamber of Commerce Recogonizes Local StudentsHeadline
RAYMOND GRADUATES--- The Raymond Chamber of Commerce was pleased to recognize and present awards to six outstanding students who are graduating from high school with highest honors. Pictured left to right: Central Hinds...
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The New Mobile Bypass Makes the Trip Through Mobile to the Gulf So Much EasierHeadline News
Mississippi vacationers’ frustration with the annual traversal through Mobile on the way to Gulf of Mexico beaches is finished. Travelers can sing farewell to that part of the trip that formerly carried them past...
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City of Bolton Town Clerk Arrested for EmbezzlementHeadline News
Auditor Shad White announced Special Agents from his office have arrested Shelia Williams for embezzlement. Williams is accused of embezzling cash payments from the City of Bolton’s water department. She was served...
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Raymond Garden Club NewsHeadline
RAYMOND GARDEN CLUB FEBRUARY HOSTESSES--- Pictured are the Raymond Garden Club Hostesses for the February meeting. From left to right are, Mrs. Leggett, Shirley Ware and Kim Porch.
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Medicaid Expansion is Governor Reeves’s Early Chance at RedemptionHeadline Political
Jonathan Tate Reeves, you are by all accounts a gentleman and a scholar. You are a graduate of Millsaps College, which prepares you to be both. You’re from high-quality people. I know you consider yourself a...
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Twists & Turns: The Five Love LanguagesHeadline
I bring this book, by Gary Chapman, to your attention because it may be of some help if you are in a relationship with another person. I’m not sure if pets count. These five suggestions are supposed to help your...
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Hinds Community College Student Success StoryHeadline
Mari Lampkin, a former MSU graduate, was introduced to Mickey Mouse and his friends at age 3 on her church (Higher Heights M.B. Church, Moorhead) trip at Disney World in Orlando, Florida. She explored the 4 magical...
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Historian Charles Sallis Transformed the Teaching of Mississippi’s StoryHeadline
The recent death of retired Millsaps College professor William Charles Sallis silenced a truthful voice in this state’s ongoing struggles over race and how that subject was originally taught to Mississippi’s public...
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Raymond Garden ClubHeadline
RAYMOND GARDEN CLUB--- Raymond Garden Club Members recently spent the morning working on the Raymond Clinton Road and Courthouse flower beds RAYMOND GARDEN CLUB JANUARY MEETING HOSTESSES--- The Raymond Garden Club...
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Governor Tate Reeves’ Proposed Tax Cuts: Good for Mississippi?Headline News
The late Mississippi Gov. Kirk Fordice delighted in saying that his photograph accompanied the definition of “tax cut” in dictionaries, as in tax-cutter supremo. Current Gov. Tate Reeves is apparently trying to...
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MC Law Graduate, County Judge Shares Secrets to Leadership Success with Student Council LeadersHeadline
The first rule of being a good leader, according to Judge Carlyn Hicks, a Mississippi College School of Law graduate and Hinds County Court Justice, is to be a good listener. When she told dozens of high school students...
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McComb - Brookhaven RivalryHeadline
It used to be, back in the halcyon days of yesteryear when McComb and “Ole Brook,” Brookhaven, played a football game on Thanksgiving afternoon, the towns’ biggest yearly argument was over high school athletics....
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Raymond Garden Club January Yard of the MonthHeadline
RAYMOND GARDEN CLUB JANUARY YARD OF THE MONTH--- Pictured above left, the Raymond Garden Club January Yard of the Month belongs to Rebecca and Sidney Risher, and is located at 236 Oak St.; Pictured above right, the...
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A Different Type of Christmas GiftHeadline
Charles B. Gordon (Dec. 7, 1909 - Nov. 15, 1982) ED. NOTE: (Written in December 1962 as a Christmas present to himself.) If someone had told me, say in 1944, that a day would come when for 25 years – close to 40 per...
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Raymond Library Open HouseHeadline
RAYMOND LIBRARY CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE--- The Raymond Public Library was full of warmth, cheer and the Christmas spirit. The Raymond Community came out to support the Library’s Christmas Open House. Patrons enjoyed...
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Many challenges confront our state which must be addressed: Gov. Tate Reeves’s Re-Election Offers Opportunities For LeadershipHeadline
Like a stout defensive unit making a goal line stand late in a tense football clash, Gov. Tate Reeves repelled formidable opponent Brandon Presley and national Democrats in winning his second term. Reeves’ victory...
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Raymond Garden Club November NewsHeadline
RAYMOND GARDEN CLUB NOVEMBER YARD OF THE MONTH-- Located at 311 Port Gibson Street, Raymond, MS is the home of Mary Knight and son Larry Knight ,Jr. RAYMOND GARDEN CLUB--- The November Garden club meeting hostesses:...
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Twists & Turns: Things Happen in the Fall, Y’all!Headline
Let me catch you up from last month. My husband, Teddy, recovered from his bronchitis and sinusitis after a second go-round of antibiotics and steroids. However, he did get a little nervous when a typo on one of the...
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The Heart of BoltonHeadline
THE HEART OF BOLTON--- The heart of the town of Bolton, which was established in 1830, can be found at the corner of West Madison Street and Bolton-Brownsville Road marked and overseen by the Bolton water tower. Gaddis...
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Central Hinds Academy Girls Soccer State ChampionshipHeadline News
CENTRAL HINDS ACADEMY WINS FIRST GIRLS SOCCER STATE CHAMPIONSHIP-- Raymond’s own Central Hinds Academy won their first-ever girls Soccer State Championship! The Lady Cougars beat Washington School of Greenville at the...
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Raymond Garden Club NewsHeadline
RAYMOND GARDEN CLUB-- The Raymond Garden Club October meeting Hostesses were Mary Ann Woods, Dixie Ishee, and Suzanne Pegues. A lovely fall table with delicious food was provided for club members. The speaker, Jarlene...
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Twists & Turns: It’s That Time AgainHeadline
Yep, it’s that time of year again and I do not mean football season. People all around me have been dropping like flies with flu, Covid-19, sinus infections and various other upper respiratory ailments. Several...
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McComb’s Will Price Taught Hollywood How to Speak Southern (then Married Maureen O’Hara at Chatawa)Editorial Headline
Will Price, we no longer need your services. Price was a native of McComb who taught Hollywood actors and actresses how to speak southern as needed for their films, including “Gone With the Wind.” He must’ve had...
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