Looking for the first win of their young basketball season, the young Indianola Academy Colonels will be playing back-to-back 7 p.m. home games the remainder of this week.
These pair of games begin tonight and will bring Lee Academy of Clarksdale to the IA gym for a non-district clash.
The 2019-20 basketball season continues to march quickly on through schedules.
In the midst of that occurrence, the Gentry High Lady Rams are hoping that this Friday’s trip to Rosa Fort High in Tunica will open their Region 3-4A play with a victory.
Every victory is important, it is just that some mean more than others.
Such is the case for the 8-1 Gentry High Rams basketball team.
For this Friday night the Rams will open their Region 3-4A play with a trip to Rosa Fort High School in Tunica.
However, this venture into regional play will be brief.
Services for Eloise B. Harris of Indianola will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Bell Grove Missionary Baptist Church.
Mrs. Harris, 75, died Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019.
Visitation will be from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, with a family hour from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., at Byas Funeral Home, which is in charge of arrangements.
One more non-district basketball contest, and then district play commences.
That is the scenario for the 4-6 Indianola Academy Lady Colonels who open their District 2-3A competition Friday against the visiting Oak Hill Academy Lady Raiders from West Point.
Services for Margaret Meeks of Ruleville will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Delmar Avenue Church of Christ, Ruleville.
Ms. Meeks, 62, died Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019 at her residence.
Burial will be in Mount Galilee Church Cemetery, Ruleville.
Brother Billy Moore will officiate at the services.
Services for Robert Poindexter of Indianola will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Temple of Deliverance, Indianola.
Mr. Poindexter, 72, died Friday, Dec. 6, 2019.
Visitation will be from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Friday at Byas Funeral Home, which is in charge of arrangements.
Burial will be in Riverside Memorial Gardens.
Jamie Michelle Scrivener, 30, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo after a brief illness.
Ask almost anyone in the small town of Sunflower and they will tell you that Christmas comes in November.
Editor’s Note: Voices From Our Future is a new column open to any school-age youth in Sunflower County who would like to express themselves and their opinions in The E-T.
What does it mean to be a premature baby or preemie?
I want to write this article on premature awareness.
Good Mornin’! Good Mornin’!
He grew up like most of us – mowing and manicuring Mississippi Delta yards for our parents and grandparents and a few others.
Thomas E. Edwards’ No. 3 Michael Barnes calls for the ball as Joseph Perez drives up the court for the Tigers, as Gentry’s Orlando Liddell (No. 22) and Jesse Hull (No. 24) get in position as No. 12 David Winfield defends Perez at the three-point line during last Friday’s inter-county rivalry game in Ruleville.
Photo: Recardo Thomas
Two men with direct ties to Sunflower County lost their lives in separate vehicle accidents over the Thanksgiving holiday.
According to the Mississippi Highway Patrol, Robert D. Walters was pronounced dead at the scene of an accident on US49 in Sunflower County last Friday at 4:22 p.m.
To Mayor Steve Rosenthal, the Board of Aldermen and all citizens of Indianola, Mississippi.
I am writing to you with great disappointment and sadness as to what I’ve recently been reading in our local paper, The Enterprise-Tocsin, concerning the last few Board of Aldermen meetings.
In a special call session of the Sunflower County Board of Supervisors on November 26, Attorney Johnny McWilliams informed the county lawmakers that a data entry error resulted in incorrect farmland values being entered into the tax assessor/collector computers for processing.
Mid-Delta Arts Association is pleased to announce the upcoming production of the play “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
The play is an adaptation of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel set in a small Alabama town during the Great Depression.
The first time I ever heard Petey Mixon’s voice, she was letting me have it.
On that particular week, I had run out of space in the paper for news, and I thought that the crossword puzzle was expendable, so I left it out.
I got a call that Friday morning from Petey, and she was pretty hot.
Although the regular season record showed a losing record for the Trojans, the team improved on the field. A reflection of that progress was quite evident when six Mississippi Delta Community College Trojans garnered post season honors.
The path to Glory is straight and narrow, but the road that led to one of Sunflower County’s newest communities in 1919 was anything but.
The twists and turns taken for about 12 miles heading north from Indianola led directly to the name Roundaway.
One man and one woman are in custody, and another man is being sought in relation to a night of violence in Indianola that took the life of 24-year-old Deaubrey Roscoe and left two other people injured and hospitalized.
A Greenwood man who allegedly took $8,000 from Humphreys County High School seniors and left them stranded in a parking lot instead of on their class trip was arrested Tuesday by Greenwood police and charged with felony defrauding under false pretenses.
Delta job-seekers are encouraged to be in Cleveland on Saturday, starting at 9 a.m., for a Toyota Mississippi job fair being held at the United Family Life Center at 1101 South Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Drive.
Docia England of Greenville has been named the Good Middling Community Service Award Recipient for 2019. Docia will be recognized at the 84th Annual Delta Council Day on Friday, June 7, 2019 at Delta State University’s Bologna Performing Arts Center (BPAC) in Cleveland.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — In 1890, as white politicians across the South cracked down on the black population with Jim Crow laws, Mississippi inserted into its constitution an unusually high bar for getting elected governor or winning any other statewide office.
A 17-year-old Sunflower County youth has died as a result of a gunshot wound to the chest that he received from a 9 mm handgun early Sunday morning at a home in the 200 block of Augusta Street.
Caleb Smith, a junior at Indianola Academy, died late Sunday night at a Jackson hospital as a result of his injury.
Join GRAMMY Museum® Mississippi on May 16 at 7 p.m. for A Conversation With GRAMMY® winners, William Ferris and David Evans, on Voices of Mississippi sponsored by Bolivar Medical Center in Cleveland, Miss.
Brittany MacNealy-Gonzales always wanted to live on the beach.
More specifically, she always wanted to live on an island, but by the time she entered her late twenties, the Inverness native was living in Nashville working for a nonprofit.
Mississippi Delta Community College has a new leader.
The MDCC Board of Trustees announced tonight the selection of Dr. Tyrone Jackson as the college’s ninth president, effective July 1.
These days, it’s hard to find a large church that does not have a contemporary praise band.
Many, like First United Methodist Church-Indianola have separate services, an early contemporary worship gathering and a traditional one later in the morning.
A pair of events benefiting Mississippi Delta Community College’s Sunflower/Humphreys Alumni Chapter and the MDCC Athletic Department will take place over the next two weeks.
The MDCC Sunflower/Humphreys Alumni Chapter mixer will be Thursday, April 12 at 6:30 p.m. at Town Market in Inverness.
Mississippi Delta Community College plans to begin renovation of the Stauffer-Wood Administration Building this fall.
The building, which was set ablaze during an apparent December 14, 2017 arson and burglary, sustained heavy fire damage, particularly on the south side of the building.
The men of Rasberry United Methodist Church will present their first annual Black History Program, Sunday, Feb. 25 at 3 p.m. at Rasberry United Methodist Church, 511 Hanna St., in Indianola.
Photos by: Recardo Thomas
Indianola’s three Democratic candidates for mayor met at Gentry High School last Friday night for a forum sponsored by the Sunflower County NAACP Chapter. Incumbent Mayor Steve Rosenthal, Mario Robinson and Vivian Jenkins are pictured left to right.
Prayers, motivational videos, games, prizes and inspired biblical encouragement combined with great food and fellowship constitutes a winning combination.
And once again Pastor Guy Burke, First Baptist Church and other community members teamed up to provide that enriching experience for local high school football athletes.
Photo by Recardo Thomas
Patrons of the Mid-Delta Arts Association are invited to go on an adventure to Texas’s third smallest town, Tuna, and witness some of the most colorful characters you’ve ever seen as the entire population is portrayed by two of the MDAA’s most talented actors.
Photo by Recardo Thomas
Indianola now has 19 new junior firefighters courtesy of the Indianola Fire Department’s Fire Academy for Kids. The children graduated Friday after completing a weeklong camp on fire safety where they were exposed to instructions on basic life saving techniques and the prevention and suppression of fires.
Mississippi House District 31 Rep. Sara Thomas announced her upcoming retirement from that seat on Friday, and on Saturday, a former Indianola city alderman announced his intention to fill that seat.
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