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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 . . .

Morton News
By Frisky Roland, 521 Reads
Fri, 06/11/2021 - 03:24 PM
Announcements: Youth Night at Shiloh Camp Meeting services will be on Friday evening, June 11 (not Thursday as reported last week).
We Care Missions Food Distribution in June is on Fridays, June 11 and June 25 from 10 a.m.-12 noon at Morton United Methodist Church, 29 Church Street.
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SALTER: Remembering Sylvia Howell Krebs: A woman of talent, substance and curiosity
By Sid Salter - Contributing Columnist, 425 Reads
Thu, 06/10/2021 - 10:48 AM
OPINION column by: Sid Salter

Earlier this month, a gentle, intellectual giant died and it’s likely that few among her university colleagues and friends in Douglasville, Georgia knew they were in the presence of a Hall of Fame athlete.
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Mississippi Covid-19 Update : June 11, 2021
By Press Release - MSDH, 421 Reads
Fri, 06/11/2021 - 09:53 AM
Listed below is the daily COVID-19 update for the state of Mississippi.

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Tyson team members and plant are plant managers including Mike Smith, Jimbo Harvey and Steve Langford were on hand as cars lined up for a food giveaway in April.

Tyson awards $40,000 grant to support hunger relief
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Thu, 06/10/2021 - 09:15 AM
Tyson Foods is providing the Mississippi Food Network $40,000 to support hunger relief in Forest and Carthage communities, the company announced last week. This grant will allow the organization to hold mobile food pantry distribution events throughout the year.
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SALTER: Jewish legal scholar’s memoir recalls 1970s sojourn from the Bronx to Mississippi
By Sid Salter - Contributing Columnist, 390 Reads
Thu, 06/10/2021 - 10:45 AM
Below is an OPINION column by Sid Salter:

Professor Howard Ball, the distinguished political science scholar, first came into my orbit on Friday, Sept. 10, 1976, when he was 39 and I was 17 during my senior year of high school.
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SALTER: The future of U.S. Navy shipbuilding will substantially impact state’s Ingalls shipyard
By Sid Salter - Contributing Columnist, 380 Reads
Thu, 06/10/2021 - 10:42 AM
Below is an opinion column by Sid Salter:

The numbers are full of contradictions when one considers the future of U.S. Navy shipbuilding and the impact that industry has on our nation and state.
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SALTER: Will thorny medical marijuana issue endanger Mississippi’s voter initiative process?
By Sid Salter - Contributing Columnist, 328 Reads
Thu, 06/10/2021 - 10:39 AM
Below is an opinion column by Sid Salter:

In the 2020 election cycle, Mississippi voters overwhelmingly voted in favor of authorizing a medical marijuana voter initiative as outlined in Initiative 65 over the express objections of the majority of legislative leaders.
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Dumping garbage is illegal!!!
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Thu, 06/10/2021 - 09:12 AM
National Forests in Mississippi officials are reminding the public that it is illegal to dump waste on national forest lands. The reminder stems from a recent discovery of multiple garbage dumps in the Bienville Ranger District.
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SALTER: Infrastructure woes: After ice storms come potholes, road and bridge deteriorations
By Sid Salter - Contributing Columnist, 240 Reads
Thu, 06/10/2021 - 10:36 AM
Below is an opinion column by Sid Salter:

No matter where you drive in most of Mississippi in the next few weeks, you will encounter new and challenging potholes thanks to the Great Ice Strom of 2021.
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Ringgold News
By Sibyl Gordy , 47 Reads
Sat, 06/12/2021 - 05:09 AM
Month for Weddings
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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.