Lifestyle

MS Historical Society Teacher of the Year named

The Mississippi Historical Society held its annual meeting Feb. 22-23 in Oxford to honor its 2024 award winners, ...

News

City making inroads with Spanish-speaking community

Partnership will align academic resources with municipal priorities In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, cities worldwide faced ...

Lifestyle

MDWFP announces crackdown on habitual violators of hunting laws

The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP) reports it is intensifying efforts to uphold hunting regulations ...

News

Seven OHS students named as National Merit finalists

Oxford High School has announced that seven exceptional students have advanced to National Merit finalists in the annual ...

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‘Shadow of Son,’ is an all-Oxford-show and Davenport’s 125th play at OHS

While all Oxford High Theater productions are quality, professional shows, its newest play is undoubtedly more special to ...

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Oxford partners with UM’s MPartner to better serve Spanish-speaking community members

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, cities worldwide faced unprecedented challenges in effectively reaching all segments of ...

Lifestyle

Ole Miss honors 60th anniversary of ‘Freedom Summer’

A week dedicated to honoring the 60th anniversary of the “Mississippi Freedom Summer” features guest speakers, documentaries and ...

News

Northwest Hall of Fame inducts locals

Three Lafayette, one Oxford graduate inducted in group of 16 Sixteen Northwest Mississippi Community College students have been ...

Lifestyle

Let’s see health care as a civil right

Sandra C. Melvin Guest Columnist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stated, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice ...

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Dallas completes advanced fire course

Firefighter Carsen Dallas of the Oxford Fire Department graduated Class 207 from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) ...

Lifestyle

OHS junior named North MS Youth of the Year

Boys & Girls Club  is ‘second home’ for Thigpen Alicia Thigpen has been a part of the LOU ...

News

Nash is finalist for National Coach of the Year

Awards banquet set for June 26 in Bismarck, N.D. The National High School Athletic Coaches Association announced last ...

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OHS 2023 grad accepts engineering internship

Michael Brayden Cage, a 2023 graduate at Oxford High School has accepted a summer engineering internship with Ultium ...

Lifestyle

Scholarship endowment honors Ole Miss alumnus

Fund honoring Daniel Clyde Hughes Jr. will help business students, Eagle Scouts By Tina H. Hahn UM Communications ...

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Making History!

By M. Ben Williams Oxford’s own Charles Reagan Wilson, UM professor emeritus of history and Southern studies, received ...

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County youth recognized at annual Dixie National Sale of Junior Champions

This year, 1,225 4-H and FFA members across Mississippi participated in the Dixie National Junior Round-Up Livestock Shows, ...

News

OHS junior named 2024 Boys & Girls Club of North MS Youth of the Year

Alicia Thigpen has been a part of the LOU Barksdale Boys & Girls Club of Oxford since she ...

Arts

Three Willie Morris winners lauded for ‘sense of place’

By Lucy Gaines UM Communications Three writers who incorporate universal themes of art, landscape and family in their ...

Lifestyle

Paragon Bank’s event shows how to spend wisely

The Oxford Paragon Bank location sponsored its first Reality Fair at The Oxford Boys & Girls Club. Each ...

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Former Booneville basketball coach sentenced for child exploitation

A former Booneville High School assistant basketball coach was sentenced Wednesday to serve 10 years in prison following ...

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Grisham Fellows find UM family during visit

Laurel, Newton high school students meet faculty, staff, students; explore options for college By Edwin Smith University of ...

Business

PERS casts a long shadow for lawmakers

By Sid Salter Columnist Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann recently identified the long-term financial stability of the Mississippi’s ...

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