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Raymond Library’s Summer Music Series: A Melodic Invitation

Raymond Library is thrilled to announce our Summer Music Series, a celebration of sound and community spirit. This year, we’re extending an open invitation to all community and local musicians to join us in creating a...

May 20, 2024

Medicaid Expansion in Mississippi

Second-term Gov. Tate Reeves experienced a close call only to emerge victorious once again in the fight over expanding a healthcare program that would have benefited a large group of Mississippi’s low-income and...

May 18, 2024 · Mac Gordon

Soul City Solar Awards $40,000 to Hinds County Nonprofits in Inaugural Round of Community Grants

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...

May 18, 2024

Salem Baptist Church in Lake Welcomes After The ownbeat:Stories & Songs Tour Featuring Grammy Winning Recording Artist, David Phelps

The unmistakable sound of multi-Dove and Grammy Award-winning recording artist, David Phelps (pictured in attached jpg), will be featured in Lake, MS, at the Salem Baptist Church, located at 2380 Salem Road on Saturday,...

May 15, 2024

Hinds CC Holds Preview Day for Area High School Seniors

More than 500 high school students and parents swarmed the Raymond Campus of Hinds Community College for the annual Preview Day on Feb. 2. Their mission was to see what the college has to offer in career training...

March 25, 2024

The New Mobile Bypass Makes the Trip Through Mobile to the Gulf So Much Easier

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...

March 23, 2024 · by Mac Gordon

City of Bolton Town Clerk Arrested for Embezzlement

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...

March 22, 2024

Raymond Public Library Spring Schedule

Spring is coming and the Raymond Public Library is offering some new programs for the month of March. A Mental Wellness program is being offered on March 20 at 2:00 p.m. Also, a program titled “What Do I Do?” First...

March 15, 2024

Department of Communication’s Advertising Agency Gives MC Students Hands-On PR Experience

Churches, small businesses, and nonprofit organizations in central Mississippi have a dynamic new avenue to help spread the word about their objectives and grow their brand through traditional and social media. Big...

March 13, 2024

HCC Music Student to Sing at the Grand Ole Opry

Hinds Com-munity College sophomore Gavin Standish, a member of the college’s choral music program, is only 19 years old, but when he sings he demonstrates the command of someone far beyond his years. Standish is set...

February 20, 2024

Terry Headlight News

Unfortunately, there are two deaths to report this week. The first one was the death of Edna Ruth McManus Keyes. She lived in Terry during her childhood years before her family moved to Crystal Springs. She was the...

February 14, 2024 · Terry P. Johnson

Hinds CC Foundation Scholarship Application Deadline is February 15, 2024

HCC SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION DEADLINE--- Hinds Community College Foundation Scholarship recipient Jonshuntaya Banks, right,is pictured with instructor Wendy Durrell during a demonstration at a recent open house on the...

February 12, 2024

Governor Tate Reeves’ Proposed Tax Cuts: Good for Mississippi?

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...

February 7, 2024 · Mac Gordon

Laughs 4 Life Creates Fun Space For Children’s of Mississippi Patients

A shiny new space with blue skies, a rainbow and interactive digital boards for games, puzzles and drawing is now open for patients in the state’s only children’s hospital thanks to Laughs 4 Life. The perennially...

January 13, 2024

Terry Headlight News

This week in our town, we have two deaths to report, and these departed have been members of two of the old families from this part of the county. We send our heartfelt condolences to the living members of these two...

January 11, 2024 · Terry P. Johnson

Terry Headlight News

The 2023 Christmas season has finally arrived! The season of Advent, which ended on Sunday, has been quite a journey of spiritual exploration that has hopefully prepared us to the joy that the birth of Jesus brought to...

December 27, 2023 · Terry P. Johnson

Cadet Bailey Barnes Receives DAR JROTC Medal

DAR JROTC MEDAL--- Pictured above Cadet Bailey Barnes, second from left, is the DAR Outstanding JROTC Cadet holding her certificate and wearing the medal she earned. Pictured above from left to right: Robin Lackey,...

December 21, 2023

Raymond Culture Club

RAYMOND CULTURE CLUB--- Raymond Culture Club Meeting was held on October 26, 2023. James Anderson entertained and educated the Raymond Culture Club with his portrayal of James Hervey Boyd, Mayor of Jackson in the...

November 18, 2023

Terry Headlight News

Last Wednesday evening and Thursday morning will be remembered as a dark time for the town of Terry. I returned for my All Saints’ memorial service during which the Bishop of Mississippi spoke. That service was in...

November 16, 2023 · Terry P. Johnson

Mental Health Counselor, Trusted Student Ally Receives DBT’s MVP Award for November

College students face a host of challenges that could threaten their mental well-being. Leaving home for the first time, balancing their classes, study time, and social lives effectively, and navigating new...

November 16, 2023

Terry Headlight News

On Tuesday morning, news of the death of Nell Taylor Eley was made known. She was a Monticello native who lived in three different houses in Terry on Raymond Street, Cunningham Avenue, and Utica Street. She was a...

November 15, 2023 · Terry P. Johnson

Central Hinds Academy VS Centreville Academy in Round 2 of the MAIS Football Playoffs

On a beautiful night in Raymond, tailor made for football, the CHA Varsity Men’s football team played in the most meaningful football game in recent history, and oh what a game it was! This game was full of everything...

November 12, 2023

Aspen Institute Names Hinds to Top 150 National Community Colleges

Hinds Com-munity College is among the nation’s top 150 community colleges that are eligible to compete for the 2025 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence and $1 million in prize funds. The institutions selected...

November 8, 2023

Central Hinds Academy Girls Soccer State Championship

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...

October 16, 2023