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Sound Science: Ole Miss, USM Use Acoustics to Monitor Coastal Threats
Students, researchers, industry unite to create acoustics surveillance systems
OXFORD, Miss. – When a motorboat cuts across the ocean or a helicopter buzzes overhead, it leaves a sonic signature. Mississippi researchers recently teamed up to test sensors designed to detect and analyze those signals in real time, potentially offering a new way to monitor coastal threats.
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3 months ago
Sound Science: Ole Miss, USM Use Acoustics to Monitor Coastal Threats
Students, researchers, industry unite to create acoustics surveillance systems
OXFORD, Miss. – When a motorboat cuts across the ocean or a helicopter buzzes overhead, it leaves a sonic signature. Mississippi researchers recently teamed up to test sensors designed to detect and analyze those signals in real time, potentially offering a new way to monitor coastal threats.
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3 months ago
The children are settled back in school and things are back to normal. Those few days of warm weather lasted long enough for them to enjoy being outside.
Diane Dukes had friends from Virginia visit her Monday afternoon. Rickey Nations and his wife Vickie had a good visit. They wanted to know if Diane wanted to go to Greenville and stay for three days, but she had to pass them up.
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3 months ago
The children are settled back in school and things are back to normal. Those few days of warm weather lasted long enough for them to enjoy being outside.
Diane Dukes had friends from Virginia visit her Monday afternoon. Rickey Nations and his wife Vickie had a good visit. They wanted to know if Diane wanted to go to Greenville and stay for three days, but she had to pass them up.
By PATCIE DECK on
3 months ago
The children are settled back in school and things are back to normal. Those few days of warm weather lasted long enough for them to enjoy being outside.
Diane Dukes had friends from Virginia visit her Monday afternoon. Rickey Nations and his wife Vickie had a good visit. They wanted to know if Diane wanted to go to Greenville and stay for three days, but she had to pass them up.
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3 months ago
The Town of Webb recently unveiled new welcome signs at both the north and south entrances along U.S. Highway 49. Along with artwork that features the state flower, the magnolia, and the state bird, the mockingbird, the sign mentions that the town was established in 1883 and also includes the slogan, “A Small Town With a Big Heart.”
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The Town of Webb recently unveiled new welcome signs at both the north and south entrances along U.S. Highway 49. Along with artwork that features the state flower, the magnolia, and the state bird, the mockingbird, the sign mentions that the town was established in 1883 and also includes the slogan, “A Small Town With a Big Heart.”
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3 months ago
Women’s Foundation of Mississippi Receives $1.17 Million Grant from W.K. Kellogg Foundation to Advance Maternal and Infant Health Equity
JACKSON, Miss. — The Women’s Foundation of Mississippi (WFM) has been awarded a three-year, $1,170,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to expand access to culturally responsive maternal and infant health care and strengthen community-driven health systems in Jackson, East Biloxi, and Sunflower County.
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3 months ago
Women’s Foundation of Mississippi Receives $1.17 Million Grant from W.K. Kellogg Foundation to Advance Maternal and Infant Health Equity
JACKSON, Miss. — The Women’s Foundation of Mississippi (WFM) has been awarded a three-year, $1,170,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to expand access to culturally responsive maternal and infant health care and strengthen community-driven health systems in Jackson, East Biloxi, and Sunflower County.
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Warm and pleasant greetings.
We hope you are enjoying a good week. January begins the new year with new initiatives for whatever is going on. Each month features awareness days, weeks and months, focusing on social and cultural observances. Perhaps the biggest and major focus for 2026 celebration will be globally, the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, on July 4.
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3 months ago
Warm and pleasant greetings.
We hope you are enjoying a good week. January begins the new year with new initiatives for whatever is going on. Each month features awareness days, weeks and months, focusing on social and cultural observances. Perhaps the biggest and major focus for 2026 celebration will be globally, the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, on July 4.
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3 months ago
Condolences to the family of Patsy Burt Williams, who was laid to rest Saturday in graveside services at Oakland Cemetery. Patsy was 91 years old and was one of four siblings who grew up in Oakland. Her siblings were Joe Lee Burt, Dale Burt and Jane Burt Pray.
Patsy was named queen of Yalobusha County during her high school years. She enjoyed a career as a real estate agent and a bookkeeper in the Memphis area. Patsy leaves a son, Burt, in Oklahoma, and a daughter, Cindy, in Memphis as well as eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
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3 months ago
Condolences to the family of Patsy Burt Williams, who was laid to rest Saturday in graveside services at Oakland Cemetery. Patsy was 91 years old and was one of four siblings who grew up in Oakland. Her siblings were Joe Lee Burt, Dale Burt and Jane Burt Pray.
Patsy was named queen of Yalobusha County during her high school years. She enjoyed a career as a real estate agent and a bookkeeper in the Memphis area. Patsy leaves a son, Burt, in Oklahoma, and a daughter, Cindy, in Memphis as well as eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
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3 months ago
There has been some debate for many years about which has more influence on us, nature or nurture. Nature being the biological makeup of a person and nurture the physical world that influences nature.
As I pondered this anomaly, I was thinking about my own family, particularly my grandchildren. We have seven grandsons born to our children. They are all as different as night and day as they are “natured” by three very different people.
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3 months ago
There has been some debate for many years about which has more influence on us, nature or nurture. Nature being the biological makeup of a person and nurture the physical world that influences nature.
As I pondered this anomaly, I was thinking about my own family, particularly my grandchildren. We have seven grandsons born to our children. They are all as different as night and day as they are “natured” by three very different people.
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3 months ago
The Church has a duty to fulfill.
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3 months ago
The Church has a duty to fulfill.
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3 months ago
Members of the Mario Willis family are pictured receiving gifts through West Tallahatchie Habitat for Humanity’s 2025 Christmas project. (Photo special to The Sun-Sentinel)
TUTWILER — “Lending a Helping Hand” was the theme for West Tallahatchie Habitat for Humanity’s annual Christmas project.
West Tallahatchie Habitat, along with board member Sykes Sturdivant, donated $4,000 toward bringing joy to families in need over the holiday season.
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3 months ago
Members of the Mario Willis family are pictured receiving gifts through West Tallahatchie Habitat for Humanity’s 2025 Christmas project. (Photo special to The Sun-Sentinel)
TUTWILER — “Lending a Helping Hand” was the theme for West Tallahatchie Habitat for Humanity’s annual Christmas project.
West Tallahatchie Habitat, along with board member Sykes Sturdivant, donated $4,000 toward bringing joy to families in need over the holiday season.
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3 months ago
From staff reports
Mississippi hospitals are bracing for a cut in federal funding, anticipating a crisis that’s hardly unprecedented, initiating concerns that reach beyond medical facilities’ budgets all the way through economic health and growth for communities.
In communities like Kosciusko development officials recognize the opportunities that hinge already on healthy hospitals.
As hospitals across the nation seek to address the estimated $1.3 trillion cuts, the picture appears more muddled in Mississippi than most states.
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