It’s spring, and you can track the farmers by the smell of dusty soil against the horizon.
Am I the only one who thinks TV hunting shows cheapen hunting by reducing it to a video game?
Whenever anything even remotely good happens, you can almost bet that we southerners will take the chance to capitalize on it with our grills …
The second Sunday in May is set aside for Mother's Day. The day is an American tradition. In a deeper sense, however, honoring one's mother is…
In Chickasaw County and across the rest of America Thursday, May 6, Americans will celebrate the 70th National Day of Prayer, which traditiona…
This is an unsolved mystery. I don’t know how it turned out, since I moved on to a new job before this case was settled. Proceed at your own r…
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In these days of “cancel culture” – where some folks are trying to obliterate some parts of history – it’s a refreshing change to see that Hou…
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
A friend of my wife's recently came across these actual announcements taken from U. S. church bulletins, and passed them along to her.
While what is considered normal is largely subjective, I think we can all agree that what has been going on for the last year is anything but.
A long day was winding down into a quiet evening as I settled into the easy chair on the porch last week.
We’d like to congratulate the Okolona School District, which received two major awards last month by PREPS, the Program for Research and Evalu…
“They” joke that there’s not much to see in small towns, but there’s a lot to hear.
If you’re a girl, would you like to be a boy?
I went to the movies this weekend and saw, not an old movie, re-released top bring in those who haven't experienced it on the big screen and t…
When you ask a law enforcement officer to tell you an interesting story, you never know quite what you’re going to get.
Holy Week services are being held this week in Houston, as this area and the rest of Christendom prepare for Easter Sunday, April 4.
Editor’s note: This column is a continuation from last week’s column.
National Vietnam War Veterans Day, celebrated each March 29, offers those in Chickasaw and across the rest of America the chance to thank and …
I’ve never understood the logic of lawns.
News item: The Houston Lady Toppers Softball Team is picking up trash from various roadsides in Houston.
We are all aware of the superheroes that grace the silver screen every few months.
No one likes getting hit -- so to speak -- with a traffic ticket.
This Sunday, March 14, most of the nation will turn their clocks ahead one hour for what’s popularly known as Daylight Savings Time, although …
If you're like me, you write or email letters about as frequently as Haley's Comet comes into view from Earth -- in other words, about once a …
The weather in Mississippi is often joked about, but the last few weeks have been an excellent example of how the jokes are a little closer to…
For a lot of local folks, the worst days of the recently-passed storms were just two more working days.