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Raymond Garden Club News

On Tuesday, October 11, 2022, The Raymond Garden Club hosted The Garden Clubs of Mississippi, Inc Natchez Trace District Fall Meeting. The Raymond Garden Club is one of 11 garden clubs included in the Natchez Trace...

October 22, 2022

Mississippi Court of Appeals Judge Virginia Carlton Announces her Bid for Re-election to the Court

Presiding Judge Virginia Carlton annou-nced her intention to run for re-election to the Mississippi Court of Appeals. The Columbia, MS native has served for the past 16 years and is one of 2 Presiding Judges on the...

October 22, 2022

Terry Headlight News

As I have previously mentioned, this year’s general election will be on Tuesday, November 8. Here is the sample ballot for Terry (with each voter allowed to vote for one in each race): for U.S. House of...

October 21, 2022 · Terry P. Johnson

Hinds CC Raymond Campus to host genealogy workshop on Nov. 7

Hinds Community College’s Raymond Campus will host a Genealogy Workshop from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov.7 in the Bucci Room of the Raymond McLendon Library. Erin Feathers, an amateur genealogist and family...

October 14, 2022

Terry Headlight News

As I have been writing about, this year’s general election will be on Tuesday, Nov. 8. Here is the sample ballot for Terry (with each voter allowed to vote for 1 in each race): For U.S. House of Representatives: -...

October 14, 2022 · Terry P. Johnson

Terry Headlight News

The 2022 United States elections will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 8. During this midterm election year, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested. Thirty-nine...

October 7, 2022 · Terry P. Johnson

Terry Headlight News

The block of Canton Street that has been closed has since been re-opened. It had been closed for several weeks. Short Cakes at 228 North Utica Street has opened in the old undertaker’s shop (later the home of Mavis...

September 30, 2022 · Terry P. Johnson

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