For the fourth year, North East Mississippi Electric Power Association and NE SPARC is offering its Bright Ideas Grant ...

A Lafayette County woman has been charged with child endangerment following an investigation involving illegal drug exposure, ...

Perfection finally showed up at my house last week. I ate it over the kitchen sink. It took 64 years to find. That hardly seems fair, but peaches don’t operate on fairness. They’re ready when they’re ...

I walked this morning. It was later than I had planned, but I walked for 31 minutes. It’s almost the middle of the hot season in Hades, or rather, the middle of July in Mississippi. Like I said, I ...

The North Mississippi Chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc. recently presented the local Boys and Girls Club L.O.U. Barksdale Clubhouse with $800 from proceeds from the Jazz in Full Bloom, an ...

In the June 1956 edition of Harper’s Magazine, literary giant William Faulkner of Oxford wrote in an essay about the social condition of the South: “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but ...

Eight students from North East Mississippi Electric Power Association joined more than 1,500 high school students from across the country for the annual Electric Cooperative Youth Tour, held June ...

Off Square Books will welcome historian Katherine Grandjean for a discussion and signing of her new book, Kingdom of Devils, at 5:30 p.m. on July 16. The signing will take place at Off Square Books.

The Oxford Board of Aldermen voted Tuesday to overturn a Planning Commission decision and approve a variance allowing a homeowner to build a six-bedroom house on University Avenue, reversing the ...

The public is invited to the July meeting of the Water Valley Rifle Guards Camp No. 2360, Sons of Confederate Veterans. The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. on July 21 at the American Legion Post 37 on ...