Pontotoc City School District will host a job fair on Thursday (March 4) accepting applications for positions available for the 2021-2022 scho…
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today announced the “Democracy Dies in Darkness Act,” legislation that would codify requirements for forei…
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., today announced the State Veterans Homes Relief Act, legislation that would provide funding to address the…
Among my favorite passages in the Bible is Matthew 6: 25-34, the part of the Sermon on the Mount where Jesus explained why believers shouldn’t worry.
Registration is continuing for the Gateway program at Itawamba Community College.
December's 2020 labor market data from the Mississippi Employment Security Commission showed Pontotoc County’s unemployment rate at 4.6 percen…
In recent days, President Biden put forward a sweeping and misguided plan to overhaul our nation’s immigration system. Most notably, the propo…
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When you write for a newspaper in a small town, the good news is that you know a lot of, and about, the people you write about.
Pontotoc County livestock farmers are in the middle of calving and lambing season, and last week’s freakishly frigid weather was particularly …
Last week’s winter storm has passed and members of the Pontotoc County American Legion has hoping for a large turnout at Thursday (Feb. 25) ni…
It’s simple, I worry about the weather all the time. So last week’s winter storms were especially hard on me.
Let’s face it. We all have a little bit of storm chaser in us. We all want to see with our own eyes what the storm has left behind and put our…
U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Tina Smith, D-Minn., today announced the introduction of the “PPP Access for Rural Hospitals Act,” (S…
The sleet and snow are still paralyzing some back streets within the city. Mounds of dirty snow are piled up where Main Street and some back p…
Police warn motorists that streets and highways will refreeze tonight and tomorrow morning
Late this evening (Wednesday, Feb. 17) winter storm Viola began covering Pontotoc County with additional sleet and it’s first serious snowfall.
Due to an increase in statewide teen driving fatalities for 2020, the Mississippi Highway Patrol is implementing its traffic safety campaign t…
Mississippi Highway Patrol officials reported that a 33-year-old Oxford woman was killed in a two-vehicle automobile accident around 5:46 a.m.…
After a year of economic uncertainty, America received some encouraging news from the Congressional Budget Office this month. This non-partisa…
Return with me to those thrilling days of yesteryear…
If you are a Veteran, serving member of the US Armed Forces or National Guard/ Reserve please come join us for our American Legion meeting to …
Pontotoc County and most counties in Mississippi are under a winter storm warning once again.
Pontotoc Police Chief Randy Tutor’s report for January 2021 included seven felony arrests and 1,214 calls for service.
Tornadoes don’t just dip suddenly out of the sky thanks to advances in weather technology. Today’s meteorologists can tell you sometimes days …
I don’t often read the New York Times but a very good article appeared in the Feb. 10 edition written by an international correspondent in Par…
A grand jury which deliberated in January returned 54 indictments into open court during arraignment proceedings in Pontotoc County Circuit Co…
Thankfully good times and good friends are not forgotten in the South and during a phone call last week from Pontotoc resident Clyde Roye he s…
Winter storm Uri covered Pontotoc County in ice and sleet on Sunday and another layer of sleet and some freezing rain was falling through the …