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Age not slowing Bessie’s roll

By Bonnie Brown Columnist It’s hard to believe but our Honda CRV turned 17 this month!  Her name ...

Opinion

Endure and light candles as you go

By T.J. Ray Columnist   To begin with, it is doubtful that the Anti-Christ is abroad.  You know—the ...

Lifestyle

Is cattle industry on the chopping block?

By Harold Brummett Star Denmark Route   Jimmy White sent me a text reminding me of the Lafayette ...

Columnists

Feeling like a modern day dinosaur

By Les Ferguson, Jr.,  Columnist   Raising kids is hard. You might look at me and think, at ...

Opinion

Our View

The qualifying period for city elections ended on Friday. In June, there will be only one contested race—for ...

Lifestyle

Twists, turns of a soap opera life

By Steve Stricker Columnist My column last week was about the procedure at new Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi, ...

Columns

What would Plato think of our elections?

By T.J. Ray Columnist   When four high school seniors showed up in the Circuit Clerk’s office one ...

Lifestyle

New pacemaker, minus one lead, is good

By Steve Stricker Columnist Dr. Mark Campbell, Autum, Derek, Dorothy (Oxford Stern Cardiovascular Clinic Staff), Vallery, Carlen, Katlan, ...

Columnists

Don’t wait for gray hair to count your blessings

By Les Ferguson, Jr., Columnist   In 1967, I was 5 years old. I didn’t know much about ...

Lifestyle

In Vegas, get the good mirror

By Bonnie Brown Columnist Many years ago, my husband was attending a conference in Las Vegas.  Naturally, I ...

Lifestyle

We are perishing for want of wondering

By T.J. Ray Columnist At odd moments of the day I wonder about wonder.  Lest you think me ...

Lifestyle

Citizens need help after disasters

By Bonnie Brown Columnist Mother Nature is so unpredictable.  Just watch a couple of TV weather forecasters as ...

Lifestyle

A thread connects each of our stories

By Les Ferguson, Jr. Columnist   I thought about starting this column with the definition of a story, ...

Lifestyle

Change my batteries and keep me ticking

By Steve Stricker Columnist   Snow update. Exhale…the snow on Thursday night, January 9 covered everything at first ...

History

TV and snow cream on the farm

By Harold Brummett Denmark Star Route   A couple of weeks ago the legacy news organizations were telling ...

Lifestyle

New words are like old dogs

By TJ Ray Columnist   The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the ...

Columnists

Consider a daily ‘toes up’ break

By Bonnie Brown Columnist It seems that Mother Nature has been flexing her cold weather muscle here just ...

Columnists

Have Becki, will live

By Les Ferguson, Jr. Columnist   I live with a fantastic woman. She is simply a phenomenal partner ...

Opinion

Our View: Winter Storm Cora

North Mississippi weather definitely keeps us on our toes. Last week, the weather reports changed almost hourly—first predicting ...

Columnists

Step by step, little by little

By Steve Stricker Columnist “For sound mental health, we must love and be loved unconditionally by at least ...

History

Cofield’s Corner

By John Cofield Local lore says William Faulkner’s grandfather, J. W. T. “Young Colonel” Falkner, owned the first ...

Lifestyle

Hoping the ship will right itself

By Bonnie Brown Columnist Welcome 2025!  We say goodbye to 2024 and do a reset for the new ...

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