DeSoto County Schools (DCS) Supt. Cory Uselton this week updated a group about the school district’s progress while at the same time receiving a gift from the group of American flags for each DCS school.
The Northwest Mississippi Community College Student Nurses’ Association (SNA) held their annual food drive and auction for HOPE Ministries in Senatobia last month. SNA delivered 2,170 food items to the non-profit organization, which responds to individuals and families in need by providing f…
Lewisburg Elementary School students (from left) Trevor Simmerman and Lee McNeil provided the lead for the Pledge of Allegiance to start the Thursday, Jan. 17 DeSoto County Schools Board of Education meeting at Central Services in Hernando.
Republican Lynn Fitch has served as Mississippi State Treasurer for nearly eight years. Fitch now believes she is ready to move to another state government office after November’s general election.
Students learn importance of a good mindset
The Mississippi House of Representatives has passed the first step toward allowing rural Mississippians to be able to have access to high-speed internet service through their local power cooperatives.
A DeSoto County man is being held in the DeSoto County Adult Detention Center in Hernando on charges of murder and being a felon in possession of a weapon following the shooting death of his brother Monday evening.
DeSoto County Supervisors spent Monday in a special meeting with county zoning officials to look at recommended revisions to its zoning ordinances. It was one of what will be a number of meetings that will help shape the regulated growth of the county in the future.
DeSoto County boards of aldermen will return to their respective meeting rooms Tuesday evening in regular session.
Program coordinator Dep. Jerald Wheeler with the DeSoto County Sheriff’s Department is in the process of forming another Sheriff’s Citizens Academy program, set to begin next month.
On practically any weekend in northwest Mississippi you'll find a group or buddies with names like Psycho, Robbie, David, Dayne, Coolio, and Chance at one of the disc golf courses, like Latimer Lake Park in Horn Lake, Central Park in Southaven, Arkabutla State Park near Hernando or any of se…
With November elections looming on the horizon, Mississippi lawmakers will be tempted to dodge the spotlight and avoid controversial legislation during the 90-day legislative session that started on Jan. 8th and is scheduled to go through April 7.
Healing Hearts Child Advocacy Center (HHCAC) has announced that Sally Williams has been selected as the organization’s new Executive Director. Williams will lead the HHCAC’s continued efforts to respond to child abuse with a supportive team approach that reduces trauma through advocacy, trea…
Flu activity is increasing in Mississippi and nationwide, according to Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) officials.
The January meeting of Northwest Mississippi Community College’s Reading Roundtable, made possible with funds from Sycamore Bank, will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 29 at 2 p.m., in the R.C. Pugh Library on the Senatobia campus. Leading this month’s discussion of The Broken Girls by award-winning…
Northwest Mississippi Community College President, Dr. Michael Heindl (left) congratulates newly re-elected board officers Dr. Adam Pugh (center), chairman, Lafayette County, and Cory Uselton (right), vice chairman, DeSoto County at the Jan. 10 meeting of the Board of Trustees. Not pictured …
DeSoto County supervisors this week met for the first time in 2019 with a change of leadership for the new year and a lengthy discussion about a proposed annexation from one of its cities.
There will be a new person next year representing the Northern District, including DeSoto County, on the Mississippi Transportation Commission, after current Commissioner Mike Tagert Tuesday announced he would not be seeking re-election. Â
A few additional names have popped up on the list of candidates for DeSoto County offices as the qualifying period continues through its March 1 deadline.
Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann this week announced where he would like to be come next January; serving as the state’s Lt. Governor.
Emily Armistead sings “Tomorrow” from Annie Jr., the DeSoto Family Theatre production during Wednesday’s Olive Branch Chamber of Commerce January meeting at the Whispering Woods Hotel and Conference Center. The youthful version of the Broadway hit musical Annie is being done from Feb. 8-17 a…
The makeup of the DeSoto County School District Board of Education will remain the same, but two members of that board now officially have six more years of service overseeing Mississippi's largest public school district.
In mid-December, the DeSoto Times-Tribune and CLICK Magazine left its longstanding home of Hernando to become a bit more central to the DeSoto County readership it serves as the county’s only news media outlet.
When the old man Father Time 2018 made the handoff to the Baby New Year 2019 at the stroke of midnight Monday night, little Laila Olivia Munn of Southaven probably looked at them both and said, “go ahead, start without me, I’m taking my sweet time.”
Mississippi is hurting itself in how it addresses health care and education, said state Rep. Robert Foster (R-Hernando), and changes in those areas are critical in the campaign platform he has announced as part of his run for governor.Â
With the 2018 election season barely in the rear view mirror, the 2019 election year in Mississippi started Wednesday morning with it being the first day candidates could file qualifying papers at county Circuit Clerk’s office.Â
With the 2018 election season barely in the rear view mirror, the 2019 election year in Mississippi started Wednesday morning with it being the first day candidates could file qualifying papers at county Circuit Clerk’s office.Â
While none of the current road projects being constructed in Northwest Mississippi is located in DeSoto County, neighboring counties are seeing workers active in roadwork entering the new year.
History is always changing and a new chapter is written every day.
DeSoto County new homeowners, or those who have never taking advantage of the exemption, can begin next week to apply for the Homestead Tax Exemption on their property taxes.
Judge Celeste Embrey Wilson of Southaven, a 17th Circuit Court Judge elected in the November general election, was officially returned to the bench during a ceremony Thursday afternoon at the DeSoto County Courthouse.
Southaven alderman, pit master, serves for needy a holiday meal. Â
In case you didn’t know, the U.S. government is in the middle of a partial government shutdown. It is likely its impact has had little or no effect on your daily living, however.
1 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2 (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 And everyone went to their own town to register.
Mississippi and DeSoto County continue to enjoy a rising number of non-farm jobs and historically low unemployment figures.
DeSoto County Supervisors this week moved forward with plans to beef up security measures at the County Courthouse in Hernando.
Along with high school state championships last weekend for DeSoto County cheer and dance teams from DeSoto Central and Center Hill, the DeSoto Central Middle School cheerleaders also came away with a state championship the same weekend in Jackson.Â
Southaven residents and visitors to the city should expect to see a cleaner, more modern look along one of its main road arteries by mid-summer 2019 after action taken by the Board of Aldermen this week.Â
More state championship hardware returned to DeSoto County last weekend, as the Center Hill High School Dance Team and the DeSoto Central High School and Middle School cheerleaders won events in Jackson.
The DeSoto County School District (DCS) has received a congratulatory visit from the Mississippi Department of Education.
DeSoto County has released its holiday collection schedules for those residents in the unincorporated areas of the county who are not served by city collection services. The schedule changes affect both the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, according to Director of Environmental Services Ra…
DeSoto County residents learned more Monday about the timetable for much-needed improvements to Holly Springs Road and other county road projects.
DeSoto County city Boards of Aldermen meet one more time in 2018 on Tuesday evening.
Members of the DeSoto County Board of Supervisors were presented a gift of handmade leis as a holiday present from longtime Road Department employee Joseph Fanayam during the Monday morning meeting in Hernando. Fanayam is a 25-year employee of the Road Department but is a native of the Pacif…
A program started about four years ago has provided youngsters in trouble another avenue for growth and a return to a good life. The program now seeks interested people to be involved and make it an even more successful program.
Second graders in an Olive Branch elementary school class this week got a sweet lesson in STEM concepts.
We’ll learn Monday morning more about how DeSoto County plans to move forward on the surface and bridge improvements to Holly Springs Road, beset by flooding problems over the past several years.
On Friday, Dec. 14, 95.3 the Rebel radio station, the Northwest Mississippi Association of Realtors and Country Ford hosted the radio station’s eighth annual Toys For Tots Bike Drive. By mid-afternoon Friday, the drive had collected more than 100 bikes and several hundred toys. The Marine Co…
A single parent a long way from home with a youngster suffering with cancer may seem like quite a lot to deal with, but a friendship developed over soup and a deli sandwich, along with a world leader in pediatric cancer treatment, are together helping to take on the daunting task.
The race for the Republican Mississippi gubernatorial nomination in 2019 became a little more populated Tuesday evening and will now have a DeSoto County businessman and state representative among its candidates.
DeSoto County Sheriff’s Department deputies spent a busy Tuesday between a number of accidents due to slippery road conditions and a deputy-involved shooting incident near Lewisburg in the evening.
