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BATESVILLE, MISS. – The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) has announced several construction and maintenance project updates in north Mississippi.
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2 months 3 weeks ago
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves is no fan of granting clemency to inmates, having gone almost six years in office without doing it once.
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A press release from MDOT will soon be posted.
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WINONA, Miss. — The Winona-Montgomery Consolidated School Board advanced routine business and heard a proposal to reconfigure schools by grade bands during its regular meeting Dec. 9 at Winona Secondary School’s Wolfe Lab.
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2 months 3 weeks ago
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Firefighters with the Duck Hill Volunteer Fire Department work to extinguish hot spots following a New Year's Eve fire that destroyed a home on MS Highway 404 in Duck Hill.
A Montgomery County family counted their blessings as the New Year was ushered in following an early morning fire that destroyed their home New Year’s Eve morning.
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Monday, Jan. 5, the Carroll County Board of Supervisors held their first meeting of the new year. Being that this was the first meeting of 2026, the majority of business covered in the meeting involved reappointing roles and responsibilities for the county. After the approval of the minutes for the meetings of Dec.
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2 months 3 weeks ago
Below is a political opinion column by Sid Salter:
Columnist Sid Salter says kitchen-table issues have historically impacted what appear to be “safe” races in the most unpredictable ways. The 2026 midterms may well prove to be one of those elections.
As Mississippi approaches its pivotal 2026 mid-term elections, the national spotlight is already trained on our U.S. Senate race and potential kitchen-table issues in the state’s congressional districts.
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Carroll County School District Board of Education meetings are held on the first Thursday of the month at 5:30 p.m. in the J.Z. George Band Hall.
Tuesday, Dec. 9 the Carroll County School District Board of Education held their regularly scheduled monthly meeting. All Board members were present at the meeting. Much information was covered over the nearly fifty-minute duration of the meeting, however only one matter seemed to dominate the conversation.
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2 months 4 weeks ago
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How I miss those lazy summer afternoons! Late last summer, I was out enjoying the warm sunshine, photographing churches in Carrollton for the annual Carrollton Pilgrimage. At Grace Episcopal Church, this gorgeous butterfly appeared, fluttering gracefully in the summer breeze.
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2 months 4 weeks ago
Opinions of President Trump’s decision to capture the president of Venezuela and bring him to the United States to face drug charges will vary. Those who support the president will think he’s doing right for America, and those who oppose him will question the legality of the overnight military operation.
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Several months ago, I wrote an article regarding the status of waterfowl populations across the country. Not to digress, but in a nutshell, the numbers overall have been in a downward trend for many years. Again, I won’t go into the reasons, but I will reemphasize some points in this article. Since we are in the last few weeks of the 2025-2026 waterfowl season, I thought it would be interesting to poll hunters in various regions across the state to get their thoughts on how the season is going thus far.
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2 months 4 weeks ago
A recent Gallup poll found 85 percent of respondents disapprove of Congress’ work. Reports suggest about 90 percent of people think term limits will align Congresspersons’ incentives with the common good. They won’t.
In the 2024 general election, incumbents won reelection more than 90 percent of the time; it’s 100 percent in some election cycles. If elections were truly competitive, incumbents would not win at that rate. Freed from competition, legislators’ incentives to are not aligned with the public good.
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2 months 4 weeks ago
Apparently, the DC Santa Claus did NOT visit Linda Berry this year. All she got were clean MAGA lumps of coal along with $2.25 gas. So sad. Nor can anyone in DC make her happy (“Democrats Must Make Their Case,” Northside Sun, 12/12/25). Yet she believes the Democrats have the better solutions to govern if they would but take it on. That assumes that the Democrat leadership has ability to function like a normal political party. Nevertheless, she’s a real Democrat believer. In what, I would like to know.
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2 months 4 weeks ago
As I write this on 1/4/26 most news reports state that the United States has carried out a flawless military mission early yesterday to arrest the Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro in his home (aka fortress) in Caracas. Our military personnel forced their way into his house before Maduro could enter his steel walled safe room and arrested him and his wife before they could escape. The assault had been meticulously planned for months. No Americans were killed, and only one helicopter was hit but was able to continue flying. A total of about 150 aircraft were used.
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2 months 4 weeks ago
Some legislators, mainly Democrats, have expressed opposition to the proposed education reforms.
Mississippi Speaker of the House Jason White (R) outlined key parts of his chamber’s education reform bill on Monday afternoon, one day before the start of the 2026 season. White said the legislation could be filed as early as this week.
The cornerstone of the bill is to give parents and students more say in their K-12 education decisions, with state funding following the pupils to the school of their choice.
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2 months 4 weeks ago
1949 was a stressful year. Three global crises placed an enormous amount of pressure on American leaders, and no one experienced the pressure more intensely than President Harry Truman.
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2 months 4 weeks ago
As renewable energy disparager President Donald Trump continues to prop up and promote coal and fossil fuel industries, Mississippi finds itself on a path to grow industries producing renewable energy alternatives to coal.
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2 months 4 weeks ago
“Who you gonna’ believe? Me or your lying eyes.” Substitute Entergy’s spokesperson for Chico Marx, and you have the current gaslighting telling you don’t believe what you see happening in other states and what common sense tells you will happen here. Just trust Entergy not to raise electric rates for small customers to benefit Amazon’s data centers.
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2 months 4 weeks ago
Every year has its challenges and this one is no different. On the opposite page, Jonathan Kettler writes about the start of 1949 and all the challenges faced that year. It provides a real sense of perspective.
The Sun is a community newspaper so we like to focus on local news but the decimation of local news by Big Tech has caused more focus on national and international news. It is human nature to focus on what’s there.
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Renovations of the historic Carroll County Courthouse in Carrollton have been underway, and they are progressing beautifully.
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