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Utica Area News

I found no Utica Area obituaries or earthshaking Utica News this past week, so I thought I would pass on some other tales from MSU, preceding it with the following obituary. Frank Young Rogers, Sr., a resident of...

August 12, 2022 · Mary Collins Landin

Terry Headlight News

The Terry Board of Alders met last Tuesday for its regular August meeting. There was discussion of the town’s Christmas parade in this upcoming December. The date for this parade is currently being planned for...

August 12, 2022 · Terry P. Johnson

Raymond News

We are finally getting some rain in Raymond. It has been so very hot and dry. The rain is supposed to continue off and on all week. I certainly hope so. Dr. Camp Hand, son of John and Ginny Milano Hand and grandson of...

August 12, 2022 · Mary Adams Kuhn

Utica Area News

I had a huge surprise last Wednesday. A member of the Society of Wetland Scientists Board flew into Huntsville from Wisconsin, bringing me the Lifetime Achievement Award from the SWS. It was totally unexpected, and a...

August 5, 2022 · Mary Collins Landin

Mississippi College Alumni Among Featured Authors at State’s Largest Literary Lawn Festival

Since its inception in 2013, the Mississippi Book Festival has featured some of Mississippi College’s most talented authors while celebrating the state’s rich literary tradition. With the festival’s return to an...

August 5, 2022

Terry Headlight News

August 2022 is here! We often have Mississippi elections in August, but there will be no election during this entering month. National Catfish Month in August is a treat and feast to be had for 31 days. Catfish is...

August 5, 2022 · Terry P. Johnson

State Auditor Findings Lead to Arrest of Deputy Clerk Hits Close to Home in Magnolia

In the past week former Natchez City Clerk Servia Fortenberry and deputy clerk Sevetrius Dillon were arrested Monday morning by the Mississippi Attorney General’s Office after being indicted for embezzlement of City...

August 5, 2022 · Terry Jackson

No Water and Sewer Bill Adjustments Noted for July

The August monthly City of Magnolia Board meeting was held on August 2, 2022, at 5:30pm in City Hall. Besides the normal business of the city being discussed there were several topics that needs to reporting. So here...

August 5, 2022 · Terry Jackson

Hinds CC Nursing/ Allied Health Graduates Celebrate with Families

Hinds Community College nursing classmates Sergio Sanchez San Juan of Pearl and Patricia Doty of Byram each brought a spouse and four children to their graduation ceremony on July 28. Both celebrated receiving their...

August 5, 2022

Raymond News

Raymond’s downtown is getting spiffier and spiffier. On August 20, Josh Raggio will have his grand opening of Raggio Mercantile and duck call shop. It is in the old Raymond Drug Store building. Our other fancy shops,...

August 5, 2022 · Mary Adams Kuhn

From cheerleading and music to basketball and Fuge, campers make for ‘Super Summer’ at MC

This summer, thousands of students from across the Southeast will descend upon Mississippi College to sharpen their athletic or musical prowess, draw closer to the Lord, and have plenty of fun. Whether they plan to...

May 27, 2022

Veteran Hinds CC Dean Wins 3E Award

It was hot and humid, but Rankin Campus Dean Gary Fox sat on a metal bench at the Raymond Campus football field wearing his trademark bow tie with seersucker slacks and dress jacket. He, along with several hundred Hinds...

May 27, 2022

Terry Headlight News

The sad news of the death of Sarah Frances Whitehead Burkett was learned late one night last week. I remember that, as a youngster, I would ride my bicycle and see that the porch of the Marie Whitehead home would often...

May 27, 2022 · Terry P. Johnson

Utica Area News

The Utica High Class of 1959 had its annual class reunion, hosted by Sam and Debbie Newman in Florence, on May 14, 2022. I did not get to the previous two reunions, and was delighted to get to this one. Penns Restaurant...

May 27, 2022 · Mary Collins Landin

Utica Area News

I knew this was going to happen sooner or later. I got no news from current events, so I am devoting this week’s article to early Utica settlement and early Utica churches. There are a lot of names to glean through,...

May 20, 2022 · Mary Landin

Raymond News

Raymond is a wonderful little town and there must be something in the water or the air because the town produces some really smart kids. There are some great kids graduating from high school this May and they have...

May 20, 2022 · Mary Kuhn

Hinds CC Graduates Nursing/Allied Health Students

Angelica Hardy made it through Hinds Community College’s Associate Degree Nursing program on May 11 and is headed to a job at St. Dominic Hospital in Jackson before she begins work on a bachelor’s degree. Hardy, of...

May 20, 2022

Raymond Garden Club

The hostesses for the May meeting of the Raymond Garden Club, pictured above left, were:Susan Pegues, Glenda Marberry, Lenda Poole and Joyce Jenkins. The speaker for the May meeting of the Raymond Garden Club, pictured...

May 20, 2022

Utica Area News

Carolyn Screws Collins, wife of David Collins, Utica Class of 1964, passed away of cancer on May 6, 2022 in Canton MS. Carolyn was born on August 24th, 1943, in Anding, MS to Buford and Pauline Screws. Upon graduating...

May 13, 2022 · Mary Collins Landin

Raymond Culture Club

The Raymond Culture Club met in the Immanuel Center of Raymond Presbyterian Church on Thursday, April 28, 2022. Hostesses for the meeting were Leisha Porch, Joy Lyle and Jeannie Chunn. They served delicious pineapple...

May 13, 2022

Terry Headlight News

The state of my health has improved somewhat, and I appreciate the prayers of healing that have been prayed! Hopefully, next week’s column will be more informative and lengthy than this one is. We in Mississippi are...

May 13, 2022 · Terry P. Johnson

President Bill Clinton and Haley Barbour Remember the Winters

CLINTON AND BARBOUR CELEBRATE LIVES OF WILLIAM AND ELISE WINTER--- At a memorial service held at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson on May 3, former President Bill Clinton and former Governor Haley Barbour delivered...

May 13, 2022

Raymond County Fair

With everyone from Elvis to Sheriff Tyree Jones to the Garden Club, the Raymond Country Fair was a huge success! The Raymond Chamber of Commerce extends a special thank you to all who made it possible.

May 13, 2022

McEnroe Tennis Academy GM Returns to MC to Lead Alma Mater’s Tennis Program

A new chapter began at Mississippi College on Wednesday, May 4, as former Choctaw tennis student-athlete, Michael Ward was announced as the next head coach for the MC men and women’s tennis program. Ward steps in to...

May 13, 2022