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Lafayette County Animal Shelter should be open soon, according to county officials.  Last month, board president Brent Larson ...

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Our View: Preventing ‘brain drain’

Brain drain, where educated individuals leave their home region for better opportunities elsewhere, is a growing concern for ...

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Our View: ‘Progress is a pain’

Driving down University Avenue, you may have noticed new “Road Work” signs popping up. The project underway is ...

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Our View: Rise in trash bill needed; More notice also needed

The Lafayette County Board of Supervisors voted Monday morning to raise the monthly rate for trash collection for ...

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Molly Barr roundabouts tricky but necessary

If you have not driven on Molly Barr near Highway 7, you are in for a bit of ...

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We’ve always known there’s something special about Oxford and the University of Mississippi. Now, the nation knows as ...

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OUR VIEW: Confederate Heritage Month a relic of the past

Another April has come and gone, and with it the usual outcry over Confederate Heritage Month. Again, as ...

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OUR VIEW: Free Diapers, Period Products a remarkable Service to Community 

CASA of Lafayette County and Mid-South Food Bank are partnering to give away some of the most essential ...

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OUR VIEW: Animal Shelter in danger of history repeating itself

Oxford is getting out of the animal shelter business after the third-party organization running the facility failed to ...

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OUR VIEW: Is lifting executive orders a premature decision?

Editor’s note: The editorial below has been altered following recent events and differs from the version printed in ...

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OUR VIEW: Shelter animals should never live in poor conditions

The latest allegations made against Oxford animal shelter Mississippi Critterz are shocking and, frankly, unacceptable – almost as unacceptable as ...

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OUR VIEW: A photo opportunity does not equal complicity

The United States Capitol Building was laid under siege one week ago today in a riot that left ...

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OUR VIEW: Reeves using deceptive strategy for public vaccine rollout

When news of the COVID-19 vaccine’s upcoming availability to Mississippians over age 65 broke on Monday, many people ...

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OUR VIEW: Lynching victims innocent until proven guilty

The conversation surrounding lynching victims in Lafayette County has been ongoing for years, but this week advocates for ...

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OUR VIEW: Waking up on Wednesday morning

It’s the day after election day, and if you’re reading this, the world hasn’t ended.  Your coffee is ...

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OUR VIEW: Oxford and Lafayette County must be counted in the 2020 Census

Oxford is accustomed to ranking near the top of the list in Mississippi as a great place to ...

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OUR VIEW: Justice delayed is not justice denied

A year has passed since Oxford experienced one of its darkest summers to date with the brutal murders ...

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Make change where it counts: the Ballot Box

The Lafayette County Board of Supervisors made a statement Monday night in voting for the Confederate monument to ...

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OUR VIEW: Can the statue be relocated now?

The vandalism of the confederate monument on the University of Mississippi campus was a bleak affair – one ...

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OUR VIEW:The numbers don’t tell all – but they should

Throughout the course of the coronavirus pandemic, we have gotten a well-formed impression of the way the Mississippi ...

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OUR VIEW: Senior Memories Never Fade

The coronavirus has wreaked havoc on life as we know it in many ways, from losing loved ones ...

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Saluting our front-line heroes

In the face of a pandemic, there are a few people who never back down.   Our essential workers, ...

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