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THE GESTALT GARDENER: Uh oh, Felder forgot to read the instructions

Live and learn, eh? And sometimes relearn, which happened last week when I made a critical error when applying a . . .

DISHING WITH DEANA: Deana's favorite summer dishes to share

With summer here, I always get excited about the gatherings that come with the season. I look forward to gathering . . .

LIFESTYLES: Plotting to scale some steps

I have never considered steps to be such an obstacle before now, and now it seems as I stand at . . .

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Jonathan Powers and his former football coach, Jeff Terrill, stand in front of the 1991 championship plaque that hangs in Powers’ office.

Coach Jeff Terrill: Remembering his KHS years

Retired football coach Jeff Terrill was recently gifted a chair at The Skipworth Performing Arts Center by one of his . . .

Courtesy of the Watkins family.
The Watkins family: Ayden, 12, Joe, Mitzi, and Kinley, 10.

Family, faith, teaching, track: The Watkins family leads a full life through French Camp Academy

From Detroit, Michigan, to French Camp, Joe Watkins has thrived in a life filled with family, teaching, coaching, and Christian . . .

Is that all there is to a pandemic?
By Kelley Williams, 8,535 Reads
Sat, 06/12/2021 - 03:29 PM
The bubonic plague killed about half the people in Europe in the Middle Ages. It was called the Black Death. Influenza killed about 15% of the world’s population in 1918-19. It was called the Spanish Flu. (John Barry’s The Great Influenza suggests it first appeared in Kansas.) Justinian’s Plague was the first major plague in recorded histor
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COVID-19 grant program promised to prioritize minority businesses. Did it?
By Geoff Pender - Mississippi Today, 5,356 Reads
Fri, 06/11/2021 - 04:49 PM
An emergency grant program for small businesses during the worst of the pandemic last year was supposed to give priority to minority and women-owned businesses in Mississippi in giving out grants up to $25,000 each from federal COVID-19 relief passed by Congress.
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A Slithery Catch: Fearless youngsters stand out at Snake Grabbin' Rodeo
By David W. Healy , 1,540 Reads
Sat, 06/12/2021 - 10:40 AM
CHATHAM —To be a good snake grabber, you have to be quick and fearless — or else they will slither away.
Both Kolby Cox and Price Dickerson understand this well. The two were, perhaps, the biggest standouts at the Grabuone Outfitters Inc. Snake Grabbin’ Rodeo at Lake Washington this past weekend.
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News from Our Schools: Upper elementary hosts field days
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Fri, 06/11/2021 - 02:00 PM
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Former state Rep. Ashley Henley

Former Rep. Ashley Henley killed outside home where sister-in-law was previously found dead
By Geoff Pender - Mississippi Today, 1,062 Reads
Mon, 06/14/2021 - 01:47 PM
Former state Rep. Ashley Henley of DeSoto County was killed while mowing the grass outside the home where her sister-in-law’s body had been found last year, the Yalobusha County Sheriff’s Department said.
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Former State Representative Ashley Henley reported dead
By Frank Corder - Y'all Politics, 966 Reads
Mon, 06/14/2021 - 05:39 PM
MONDAY MORNING, NEWS ON SOCIAL MEDIA BEGAN CIRCULATING THAT FORMER REPRESENTATIVE HENLEY HAD DIED.
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Karen Fioretti / The Star-Herald. Jonathan Powers and his former football coach, Jeff Terrill, stand in front of the 1991 championship plaque that hangs in Powers’ office.

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Coach Jeff Terrill: Remembering his KHS years
By Beverly Casteel / Star-Herald, 879 Reads
Fri, 06/11/2021 - 12:30 PM
Retired football coach Jeff Terrill was recently gifted a chair at The Skipworth Performing Arts
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If reaching consensus had always been required to call a Mississippi special session, many critical policies never would have passed. Credit: Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/Report For America

Successful special sessions often began without consensus Reeves wants on medical marijuana
By Bobby Harrison - Mississippi Today, 836 Reads
Mon, 06/14/2021 - 10:13 AM
Gov. Tate Reeves is adamant that he will not call a special session to enact medical marijuana and to fix the ballot initiative process until legislative leadership reaches a consensus on how to deal with the separate but related issues.
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As MS Legislature debates medical marijuana, is recreational marijuana now on the table?
By Frank Corder - Y'all Politics, 670 Reads
Fri, 06/11/2021 - 04:15 PM
After recent hearing, state Sen. Brice Wiggins says yes.
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