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Memorial services for Travis Hilton “Butch” Chambers, Jr., will be held Saturday. June 12, 2021, at 2 p.m. at Forest . . .

The ‘height’ of my gardening days

When the rain set in this past weekend it really set in and unfortunately it would have been our first . . .

Arrest Report

The following individuals were taken in to custody and booked in to the docket at the Scott County Jail between . . .

Tyson awards $40,000 grant to support hunger relief

Tyson Foods is providing the Mississippi Food Network $40,000 to support hunger relief in Forest and Carthage communities, the company . . .

Dumping garbage is illegal!!!

National Forests in Mississippi officials are reminding the public that it is illegal to dump waste on national forest lands . . .

Arrest Report
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Thu, 06/10/2021 - 01:46 PM
The following individuals were taken in to custody and booked in to the docket at the Scott County Jail between May 26 and June 3, 2021. All individuals are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
5/26/21 – Rawson, Melissa 616 Toomsuba St. Disturbing the Peace of Another
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SALTER: With Democrat trifecta in Washington, Republicans stand at an uneasy crossroads
By Sid Salter - Contributing Columnist, 814 Reads
Thu, 06/10/2021 - 10:51 AM
OPINION column by: Sid Salter

At noon today with the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, Democrats will control the White House, the U.S. House of Representatives and narrowly the U.S. Senate.
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Mississippi Public Service Commission Approves State’s First Wind Turbine Facility
By Press Release - Public Service Commission, 800 Reads
Wed, 06/09/2021 - 03:05 PM
Below is a press release from the Mississippi Public Service Commission:
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Giant Zucchini
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Thu, 06/10/2021 - 01:08 PM
At age 89, and in the midst of a world wide pandemic, Ms. Martha Reed still keeps her garden growing and continues to produce record size veggies like this 11 1/2 inch zucchini squash.

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Reverse auctions secretly killed by special interests
By Wyatt Emmerich, 716 Reads
Fri, 06/11/2021 - 04:09 PM
It didn’t take long for the powers that be to kill reverse auctions — about two years or so.
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Carrie Ellen Torrence
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Thu, 06/10/2021 - 02:47 PM
Carrie Ellen Weaver Torrence, 68, of Lena passed away on May 26, 2021. Carrie was born on December 10, 1952 in Brandon, Mississippi. She wed the love of her life, Bobby Torrence, in January of 1970. They have two children.
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Sylvia Ann Gatewood
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Thu, 06/10/2021 - 03:49 PM
Sylvia Ann Gatewood, 75, passed away on May 24, 2021 at Hospice Ministries, Ridgeland, MS. She was born on February 3, 1946 to Lillie Mae Weems Gatewood and Dewey Gatewood. Graveside services were on Wednesday, May 26, 2021, at 10:00 A.M. at the Homewood Methodist Cemetery in Forest, MS, under the direction of Wolf Funeral Services.
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"It's hard out here. There aren't any jobs around here, but I keep looking," said Michael Scott Beard, 34. Beard is homeless and living in his van. He readily does the few odd jobs that come his way to make a few dollars so he can eat and put gas in his van. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

Jobless Mississippians fear what’s next as $300 unemployment checks end
By Sara DiNatale - Mississippi Today, 660 Reads
Fri, 06/11/2021 - 10:13 AM
It takes $80 to fill the gas tank inside the beat-up white cargo van 34-year-old Michael Beard calls home.
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Mississippi Covid-19 Update : June 10, 2021
By Press Release - MSDH, 659 Reads
Thu, 06/10/2021 - 09:13 AM
Listed below is the daily COVID-19 update for the state of Mississippi.

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Dozens of creatives responded to Mississippi Today’s NextGen Mississippi survey and shared why they took their talents to other states.

Young creatives share why they left Mississippi
By Candace McKenzie - Mississippi Today, 656 Reads
Wed, 06/09/2021 - 03:55 PM
Growing up in Greenwood in the 1980s, Sue Anna Joe was an artsy person.
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COVID-19 grant program promised to prioritize minority businesses. Did it?

An emergency grant program for small businesses during the worst of the pandemic last year was supposed to give priority to minority and women-owned businesses in Mississippi in giving out grants up to $25,000 each from federal COVID-19 relief passed by Congress.