JACKSON • The Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) will host drive-through COVID-19 testing sites for Mississippi teachers and staff …
Amongst the more than five hundred graves lying in the Friendship Presbyterian Church Cemetery at Van Vleet, Mississippi, lies a grave marked …
Words have always fascinated me all of my adult and ‘semi-adult’ life. Why is a word thus and so and couldn’t it be this or that word? I suppo…
Just when I’m struggling. About to fall.
The Times Post’s weekly publications in 1943 diligently covered local happenings – who played Rook or Bridge in whom ever’s home, with detaile…
The news of 1938 reflected a microcosm of events, both local and global – some interesting, some humorous and some worrisome. In early January…
The next place and time for Marvin K. See is Aug. 27, 1929. Sadly, this is the date Marvin was admitted to the US National Home for Disabled S…
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Just about anyone from Chickasaw or Calhoun County whose age is north of 55 or 60 should remember knowing or hearing about Marvin See. I don’t…
For some unknown reason, while pondering what to write about in this Christmas edition, it seemed I was being drawn to writing about Christmas…
It seems to me the worst always happens right before the best.
One of Houston’s own was responsible for bringing a Semi-Pro baseball team to Houston in the mid-forties. Part of his legacy is that Dave Kyle…
It is at last the week many have been waiting for! The time to drop off your shoeboxes full of Christmas gifts to those who live in other coun…
In reading through copies of this weekly newspaper published in 1949, I have been moved by the articles relaying details pertaining to soldier…
I hope you…
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When I began first grade in Houston in the fall of 1947, I can remember the old ante-bellum home that stood sort of back in the woods and to t…
I am learning so many things as the days go on and am in awe of just how clear I see those things. It’s not because I have 20/20 vision or bec…
When Genger Byars, formerly Genger McGhee, was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in 2008, it turned her whole world upside-down. She felt lost in a…
Today, while trolling through back issues of the Chickasaw Journal, or in this case, the Times Post, basically just looking for anything that …
Most of us are well acquainted with the story about John Newton, the man who wrote this song some two hundred forty- seven years ago, but now …
Those who know me well will attest that I tend to ramble a bit in my conversations. And now, I am about to ramble before I get to the crux of …
Christianity is hard.
I recently finished re-reading Alas, Babylon, a best seller from the late fifties/early sixties. The author is Pat Frank whose career included…
Dicks – Mr. Busby gives the date of June 30, 1892 when this post office opened. It closed Feb. 15, 1900. A Miss Josie Morris was the only post…
This list will get us from Egypt to Thorn. I never knew that so many post offices came into being then went by the wayside in our county. But,…
Thomas Jefferson Busby was, in my opinion, one of Mississippi’s finest. Any person who was born in “Short” Mississippi and rose to the heights…
For some time now, I have searched for facts about an old limestone mine, or quarry, located west of Okolona, south of Hwy. 32. I know it was …
Many a year ago, I married into a military family. Various members served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. Through the years, sometimes to …
HOUSTON – Chickasaw County Relay for Life enjoyed a wrap-up meeting at The Grind in Houston recently. An up-to-date report on funds raised so …