TUPELO • The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) will allow schools to use a combination of virtual and traditional learning to minimiz…
Blake Alsup
Reporter
MOOREVILLE • A Mooreville teacher and principal have been given Lee County School District's highest honors.
Blake Alsup
Reporter
TUPELO • Hundreds of students in the Tupelo and Lee County school districts tested positive for COVID-19 last week, and hundreds more were qua…
Blake Alsup
Reporter
TUPELO • The mother of a Thomas Street Elementary School student has been named the Tupelo Public School District's 2021-22 Parent of the Year.
Blake Alsup
Reporter
TUPELO • The Tupelo Public School District has again changed its COVID-19 masking policy, deleting a section from its 2021-22 school year blue…
Blake Alsup
Reporter
OKOLONA • The atmosphere at Okolona Elementary on Thursday was one of excitement and hope as the Tupelo alumnae chapter of the Delta Sigma The…
Robert Scott
Managing Editor
Here’s a list of schools that will be closed Friday, Jan. 14:
Danny McArthur
Reporter
National News
TUPELO • Despite temperatures hovering just north of freezing Friday afternoon, Tupelo elementary school students each received a beach ball a…
Blake Alsup
Reporter
Here's a list of school closings and delayed openings across Northeast Mississippi due to the threat of winter weather for Jan. 6, 2022:
Blake Alsup
Reporter
OXFORD • The Oxford School District Board of Trustees voted to "strongly recommend" the wearing of face masks for students as the number of CO…
Blake Alsup
Reporter
TUPELO • The U.S. Department of Education has announced the approval of Mississippi's American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary Emergency …
Blake Alsup
Reporter
BLUE SPRINGS • Cyprian Ng'etich, a Kenya native turned Mississippi middle school teacher, has always had his head in the clouds.
Blake Alsup
Reporter
FALKNER • A new Christmas compilation features short stories penned by a Falkner Elementary School teacher.
Blake Alsup
Reporter
TUPELO • Two Parkway Elementary School educators have been awarded Tupelo Public School District’s highest honors.
Blake Alsup
Reporter
TUPELO • Officials with the Tupelo Public School District are investigating a report of threats to the middle and high schools.
Blake Alsup
Reporter
TUPELO • Dozens of school administrators, elected officials and community members lined the main hallway of the Lee County Career & Techni…
Blake Alsup
Reporter
TUPELO • As students first arrived at the Lee County Career & Technical Education Center (Lee CTE) in mid-November, they greeted Director …
Blake Alsup
Reporter
MANTACHIE • At the height of Mississippi’s deer season, more than a dozen students donning white butcher coats and hairnets take their positio…
Blake Alsup
Reporter
AMORY – During a special-called meeting Nov. 15, the Amory School Board approved Brian Jones as its new superintendent.
Ray Van Dusen
Managing Editor
TUPELO • The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and Deepika Dey received Association for Excellence in Education (AEE) Advocate for Education Aw…
Blake Alsup
Reporter
TUPELO • The Lee County School District Board of Trustees has approved a partnership with Project SEARCH, a nationwide transition-to-work prog…
Blake Alsup
Reporter
TUPELO • Pierce Street Elementary School teachers gathered in the school's auditorium Tuesday afternoon for what they thought was a normal sta…
Blake Alsup
Reporter
TUPELO • Tupelo students will no longer be required to quarantine after being exposed to a classmate with COVID-19 following an update to the …
Blake Alsup
Reporter
TUPELO • On the first Wednesday in November, Valerie Weivoda loaded up a shopping cart at Sam's Club in Tupelo with 200 servings each of Home …
Blake Alsup
Reporter
TUPELO • Employees of Mississippi's eight public universities must be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Dec. 8 as part of a mandate for federal w…
Blake Alsup
Reporter
TUPELO • By her own account, Precious Hill, a 10th grade English teacher at Tupelo High School, was an average student in middle and high school.
Blake Alsup
Reporter
The best plays make you laugh, make you cry and — most of all — make you think. “The Boys Next Door” delivers on all three on the Tupelo High …
Sam R. Hall
Executive Editor
TUPEO • Face masks will be optional for Tupelo Public School District students beginning Wednesday, following a policy change approved by the …
Blake Alsup
Reporter