For Oak Grove Middle School sixth-grader Allyson Aultman, the highlight of last week’s STEM activities was the “roller derby” game, in which students used the roll of the dice to determine probability.
“It was my favorite (activity),” she said. “I learned communication, strategy, thinking skills and planning ahead.”
Lumberton officials are once again on the search for another chief for the Lumberton Police Department after Chief Adam Jones handed in his resignation this week, making him the fourth chief to leave the position in less than two years.
William Cecil Courtney Sr.
64, of Purvis
William Cecil Courtney Sr. died Oct. 31, 2019, at his home. Services were Nov. 3 with burial in Corinth Baptist Church Cemetery.
With its food pantry serving more than 1,500 households each month, Edwards Street Fellowship Center puts to good use community donations of foodstuffs throughout the entire year.
At some point along the way, Diane Shepherd of Main Street Books remembers a Christmas tree, known as the Tree of Hope, placed on Hattiesburg’s Main Street that served as a fundraiser for the Helping Hands Mission.
Three volunteer fire departments in Lamar County are the recipients of a total of $13,500 in grant funding from the Mississippi Forestry Commission that will be used to purchase firefighting equipment.
There is a widely-accepted notion that the definition of insanity is “doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.”
If that’s true, then the State of Mississippi has officially lost its collective mind.
One of the enduring political debates in recent decades has been whether the nation would be better served if term limits were imposed on members of Congress as they are on the president.
What happened to all the Mississippi Democrats who held state and federal elected office? Nothing really. They just changed their name to Republican.
Jim Hood’s defeat marks the end of a long and checkered history of Mississippi Democrats elected to a major state office.
There is a scene from my childhood that replays in my head often. It’s not of me crossing the goal line and scoring a winning touchdown in a championship football game or knocking a walk-off homerun out of the park to win a Little League championship game, or even rescuing a drowning puppy from a fast-flowing creek.
