The 77th annual Sunflower County Livestock Show was a success. Pictured above are Crosby and Nichols McCrory wrangling a goat during last Saturday’s show. The E-T will have more pictures from the event in our upcoming Salute to Agriculture section.
Photo: Bryan Davis
Flanked by her three sons, Margaret Keyton addresses the crowd during the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Program at the Mount Beulah Missionary Baptist Church on Sunday. Culminating her talk, Keyton led the crowd in a chant to “Keep the Dream Alive.”
Photo: Recardo Thomas
Several years ago, when I was helping a friend of mine sell church pages, I asked him if he ever saw results from any of his sales. I was interested in knowing if anyone had ever accepted Christ as a result of reading one of these pages.
Services for James Ronell Leach will be held at 12 noon Saturday at Burton Funeral Home.
Mr. Leach, age 85, died Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020 at Delta Regional Medical Center in Greenville.
Gordon Dale Mitchell, 72, of Doddsville, passed away Monday, Jan. 20, 2020, at Merit Health Central in Jackson.
Gordon was born April 27, 1947 to Tom Byrd Mitchell and Flora Lee Holmes Mitchell. He was of Baptist faith.
There’s still plenty of promise and potential but the inexperience and lack of weaponry against stacked opponents continue to leave North Sunflower Academy Rebels on the wrong side of the scoreboard.
Sunflower County Emergency Management Director Denny Evans confirmed on Tuesday that two EF2 tornadoes touched down in Sunflower County on the morning of January 11 and that they heavily impacted Drew and the Rome/Parchman areas.
Momentum is a powerful item to take into a big game.
Or into a string of big games.
Such is the case for the 12-9, 3-2 Gentry High Lady Rams as they move from claiming three consecutive victories into a three game run of Region 3-4A contests.
Another Sunflower County resident is speaking out and wants something done about what she sees as an unsafe condition on a county road that she has to travel.
The city lawmakers voted unanimously to approve pay request number six to Hemphill Construction Company for the installation of the city’s new radio-read water meters.
Victor Smith of Gardner Engineering said the project is still moving forward. “As of now, we’ve actually considered about 88 to 89 percent of the job is done.”
A lingering project to construct an extended deceleration lane on the eastbound side of U.S. 82 East for semi-trucks turning into an irrigation company has hit yet another speed bump and stalled.
Agents with the Mississippi State Extension Service recently held their annual luncheon for local volunteers, county and state officials. The purpose of the gathering was to share information on the various programs and activities and update the stakeholders on the progress of their programs.
Classes were cancelled on Monday and Tuesday at Thomas E. Edwards Senior High, but the doors to the Ruleville school were wide open for families who needed food after strong storms knocked out the power to most of the northern part of the county last weekend.
After months of intense planning Mississippi Valley State University’s (MVSU) professor Dr. C. Sade Turnipseed and her public history students, led by 17-year old Brian Diyaolu, were given approval by the Sunflower County Board of Supervisors to place a historical marker commemorating the historic stance taken by Mrs.
The University of Mississippi has announced honors for the 2019 fall semester.
There were six local students honored.
A reward is being offered for information leading to the recapture of Dillon Dewayne Williams, an inmate who escaped the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman apparently on Friday.
Mississippi Crime Stoppers is offering a $5,000 reward in the case.
Editor’s Note: We are thrilled to have Mrs. Charlotte back on page 5. We wish you a continued and full recovery. Everyone has missed you.
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Baird & Stallings CPAs, PA has added two new associate partners and has promoted a longtime employee.
Webb A. Baird, CPA and Drew Daniel, CPA have been admitted as associate partners and Ray Hawkins has been promoted to senior manager.
This story was changed to reflect the name of the second inmate who had previously not been identified.
Two more inmates at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman lost their lives overnight.
The prospect of a new wellness and physical therapy center is groundbreaking news for the city of Indianola.
There’s a lot to be said about the dwindling population in the Mississippi Delta.
That trend continues to negatively affect the region’s healthcare, education and economic development.
It’s difficult recruiting jobs to a region that is losing its labor pool more and more year-after-year.
But there is good news.
The Indianola Police Department announced Thursday that a suspect in the murder of 17-year-old Aquavius Hines is in custody.
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.
Good Mornin’! Good Mornin’!
I’ve only been to Parchman in uniform. Back in the 1970s our Little League baseball division consisted of Isola, Inverness, Moorhead, Sunflower and Parchman.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
