Commissioner Mike Tagert, Northern Transportation District, has announced updates to several Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) bridge maintenance projects in Northwest Mississippi.
Homes, garages, and backyard sheds are a lot cleaner in DeSoto County once again, after county government hosted another Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day on Oct. 5.
Residents of the Wesley Meadows Retirement Community in Hernando who deal with memory issues will in the future have a new place for them to reside.
Members of the Rotary Club of Olive Branch went all “pink” to support breast cancer awareness at their meeting on Oct. 15. The featured speaker for the noon meeting at the Olive Branch Country Club was Grant Director Lisa Mischke (fourth from right) with the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s Memph…
The Hernando Optimist Club recently presented a $1,000 check to the Historic DeSoto Foundation and the DeSoto County Museum to assist with the organization’s work in preserving history and educating youth of the area about this region’s important heritage. Youth education is one of the major…
This home on East Jefferson Loop in Hernando sustained roof and interior damage when it was struck by lightning and caught fire late Sunday night, part of a storm system that came through DeSoto County. There were no injuries as a result and the occupants escaped the home safely. Several hom…
On Oct. 8, Olive Branch police officers responded to the Xfinity offices, 5338 Goodman Road, regarding a burglary. Security footage revealed two subjects made entry and took several iPads. If you have any information regarding the two subjects depicted in the security footage, contact the Ol…
The Rotary Club of Olive Branch recognized its October Students of the Month from Olive Branch High School at its Oct. 15 meeting. From left are Principal Jacob Stripling, and students Kaliyah Means and Logan Pruitt.
Visitors crowded the walking trail at the Olive Branch City Park for the annual Octoberfest arts and crafts festival on Saturday, Oct. 5. A pet adoption event with the Olive Branch Animal Shelter was held as part of the annual festival.
Turning Point Recovery Center in Southaven donated $800 to the DeSoto County Sheriff's Department to be used to purchase the drug Narcan. The drug is used for the partial or complete reversal of an opioid overdose. Deputies will have the drug available as part of their routine patrols. The …
Hernando Aldermen Tuesday approved the five-day closure of West Commerce Street at the intersection with Highway 51 to allow for the installation of the pedestrian crosswalk on the east side of Highway 51. Full closure starts the morning of Oct. 5 and will be opened the morning of Oct. 10. P…
A DeSoto County family will again provide the gift of reading for families dealing with children being treated at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis.
Jason Grissom, student ministry pastor at Broadway Baptist Church in Southaven, heard from members of his youth group who wanted to continue serving others once they returned from mission trips that took them away from home.
The City of Horn Lake has announced that the seventh annual Veterans Breakfast and Program, honoring men and women of the armed services, will be held this year on Nov. 1, starting at 9 a.m.
It was quite a fair, this 163rd edition of the Mid-South Fair that took over the Landers Center in Southaven for 11 days, ending on Sept. 29.
Long-time Tate Countian Don Clanton has been named Northwest Mississippi Community College’s Alumnus of the Year for 2019. Northwest will hold its 2019 Homecoming festivities on Thursday, Oct. 10 on the Senatobia campus. Clanton will be honored during the Alumni Celebration beginning at 4 p.…
Brady May, son of Matt and Kathy May, is shown with Lewisburg High School principal Chris Fleming after May was named the Olive Branch Rotary Student of the Month for September. May’s recognition came during the Sept. 24 meeting of the Rotary at the Olive Branch Country Club.
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Horn Lake businessman Korie Peace of Korie’s Auto Spa, a native of Tutwiler, recently sponsored a backpack giveaway for children at the Tutwiler Community Education Center. Peace is a native of Tutwiler and said he remembered what the center did for him as a child. Forty backpacks were donat…
Mississippi State University entomology specialist Dr. John Guyton makes a presentation during an Open House held at the MSU Extension-DeSoto office in Hernando on Sept. 23.
The contentious legal battle between the widow of Southaven resident Ishmael Lopez, the Southaven Police Department, retired Police Chief Steve Pirtle, and the City of Southaven, continued on Sept. 26 with attorneys for Claudia Linares calling statements made in briefs filed by an attorney f…
DeSoto County officials reported on Sept. 26 that an audit report on the county has come up clean without findings. A letter acknowledging that fact was sent to Board President Lee Caldwell from State Auditor Shad White’s office in Jackson.
DeSoto County Tourism has been selected as The Destination Marketing Organization of the Year by the Mississippi Tourism Association.
Get your Cokes and popcorn ready, it’s movie night in DeSoto County next month.
Examiners with the Nesbit Department of Public Safety vehicle license bureau have been recognized for their efforts to promote organ donor donation as part of the license issuance or renewal process. Donate Life Mississippi awarded the bureau the Red Heart Award for having the state’s highes…
The invitation letters have been sent out, now Southaven police and municipal court officials hope those who receive them will take a moment and accept their invitation.
The invitation letters have been sent out, now Southaven police and municipal court officials hope those who receive them will take a moment and accept their invitation.
Getting high school students ready to take the all-important college entrance exams is again paying off in DeSoto County.
Those who get a traffic ticket in Southaven have another reason to attend to it right away and not forget about it.
Hernando Police Monday continued an investigation into a report of a shooting incident that took place over the weekend.
Healing Hearts Child Advocacy Center has announced that Ben Boren, Ann Lamar, and George Loper have recently been named to the Board of Directors for their organization.
Southaven Police report they are looking into an incident at an apartment complex that resulted in the wounding of a man.
It’s not so much a new organization at a DeSoto County school, but it now has gained extra support to help its service mission to the school and the community.
Tickets are still available for the upcoming Northwest Ranger Bluegrass Festival presented by Gateway Tire.
Northwest Mississippi Community College Physical Plant Director Mary Ayers (far left) and President Dr. Michael Heindl (second from left) join officials and volunteers with the Coldwater River Nature Conservancy Sept. 17 to announce fundraising efforts for the new Virginia Trails at Hunter's…
Stewart L. Herron and his wife Dorothy V. Herron recently donated framed photographs and other memorabilia including a World War II rations book belonging to Dorothy Herron to the DeSoto County Museum to be displayed in the Museum's award-winning Military Service Room. The photographs are of…
Horn Lake Intermediate School principal Carol Smith (center) has been awarded the Mississippi Association of Colleges for Teachers Education's Outstanding Administrator Award for Delta State University. Each of the 15 universities in Mississippi represented could each make an award to a dese…
Workers were making final preparations for the Sept. 19 start of the annual Mid-South Fair at the Landers Center in Southaven. For 161 years, the event has been an entertainment staple of the Mid-South area. It moved to Southaven from its Memphis location in 2009 and has been in DeSoto Count…
When the DeSoto County Board of Supervisors approved its budget for Fiscal Year 2020 this month, it was able to do it again without raising taxes. The board-passed budget will hold the line on taxes with a total tax levy for the year, starting in October, of 41.02 total mills.
In the latest Chicken Soup for the Soul book, titled “Chicken Soup for the Soul: “Angels All Around,” a Horn Lake author expresses the desires of her heart and how she thinks an angel helped provide that. Marianne Gage who writes under the name M. Elizabeth Gage, contributed an item titled, …
Mississippi school districts have been waiting anxiously for Sept. 19 and the announcement that is expected to become official by the state Board of Education today.
DeSoto County Supervisors this week heard from a representative of C Spire, the service provider that is in the midst of installing fiber to provide what it terms “ultra fast gigabit internet” service in areas of the county.
A successful education experience for school students will happen when parents get actively involved.
Several areas were touched on regarding public education and its future for DeSoto County during an open discussion held in Hernando Sept. 17.
Delta Technical College founder Brian K. Huff (with scissors) cuts the ribbon as part of the campus grand opening for its new building in Horn Lake. Delta Tech's 11 programs are now taught next to its old location on Interstate Blvd.
Hernando Alderman Andrew Miller has been inducted into the Mississippi Municipal League (MML) Hall of Fame, which took place at the MML 88th annual conference held in Biloxi.
Southaven Police Chief Macon Moore Friday said he believes the man accused of killing two Southaven Walmart store managers and the wounding of one of his officers could be back in Mississippi by early next week.Martez Abram, age 39, appeared in a Shelby County, Tennessee court room Friday mo…
Mississippi U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith speaks with Walt Starr with U.S. Rep. Trent Kelly's office prior to the DeSoto County Economic Development Council luncheon on Sept. 13. Hyde-Smith was the featured presenter to the EDC's quarterly luncheon at Whispering Woods Hotel and Conference Ce…
The well-known Ken and Brad Kolodner Quartet with Rachel Eddy performed at the DeSoto County Museum in Hernando on Sept. 8 as part of the Cabin Fever Festival, with proceeds to help improve the Crumpler-Ferguson log cabin that is located next to the museum building on Commerce Street.
Two students from DeSoto County have the opportunity to complete their junior and senior years of high school at the Mississippi School of the Arts (MSA) in Brookhaven.
Northpoint Christian School has announced Sammy Lee, Harrison Grant, and Ashlyn Wood as semifinalists in the 2020 National Merit Scholarship Program.
