By Sarah Moody, For the MSU Extension Service Mississippi State University Extension Head Start is welcoming children and families it serves along the Mississippi Gulf Coast back for another year of learning, growth and connection. The start of the new...
By Jeremy Pittari, Magnolia Tribune Nearly $3.4 million in CARES Act grant funding has been approved to help renovate a foster care facility in Mississippi. The funding will be utilized to provide more modern care and calming surroundings to the state’s...
By Jeremy Pittari, Magnolia Tribune A $400 million interstate repair project in the Jackson metro area will require two rounds of 45-day full lane closures along I-20 by the Mississippi Department of Transportation. Extended closure of traffic along one...
The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) is encouraging all education stakeholders to recognize September as Attendance Awareness Month and to understand key points of the state’s updated Mississippi Compulsory School Attendance Law (SB 2103), which became...
By Amanda Robinson, Delta State University The Golden Anniversary Scholarship, an endowed scholarship established more than 40 years ago to support Delta State University students, has been repurposed to provide financial assistance to Delta State alumni...
By Meredith Biesinger, Magnolia Tribune For more than 200 years, generations of children in Columbus started school at a place that holds a distinction no other Mississippi school can claim. Franklin Academy, established in 1821, was the first free...
By Brett Martel, Associated Press When Mississippi quarterback Trinidad Chambliss watches the Houdini acts from last season that made him a college football sensation, there is a part of him that would rather avoid doing that again. The ability to escape...
By Jeremy Pittari, Magnolia Tribune New cut scores for the fifth grade math assessment and an updated excused absence policy were adopted by the Mississippi State Board of Education during a meeting last week. Establishment of the new cut scores and...
By Frank Corder, Magnolia Tribune The Mississippi Cattlemen’s Association and the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation are pushing back on President Donald Trump’s plan to allow 300,000 metric tons of government-subsidized ground beef into the U.S. supply...
Governor Tate Reeves today announced that Mississippi’s total nonfarm employment reached a new record high in July with 1,196,200 jobs. “There’s been no shortage of record-breaking economic news for Mississippi over the last six-plus...
By Jeremy Pittari, Magnolia Tribune An update on the issues that led to the Okolona Separate School District being taken over by the Mississippi Department of Education last year was provided to the State Board of Education on Thursday. The Board also...
By Roscoe Barnes III, Ph.D., Visit Natchez The Pilgrimage Garden Club will host an afternoon symposium Saturday, September 26, examining the impact of the Mississippi River, cotton, and key events that shaped Natchez before the Civil War. Held in memory...
By Dr. Eddie Smith, MSU Extension Service Having a campfire may be the last thing on a gardener’s mind during the heat of August, but you may reconsider once you’ve seen the Campfire series of bidens. Bidens are annual plants native to the...
Governor Tate Reeves recently announced Dr. Daniel “Deano” Harrison as Director of the Mississippi Office of Apprenticeship, also known as ApprenticeshipMS. Harrison previously served as a Workforce Development Manager for AccelerateMS, where he...
Recently, the Mississippi Agriculture and Livestock Theft Bureau (MALTB) successfully recovered a stolen farm truck. On August 16, the Mendenhall Police Department took a theft report of the stolen truck, and MALTB was contacted by the farmer about the...
By Frank Corder, Magnolia Tribune “I’m just a down-to-earth, common-sense man.” That is how Kyle Cockrell described himself this week in an interview with Magnolia Tribune. The central Mississippi owner of Cockrell’s Farmers Market is the first...
MSU Office of Public Affairs The legacy of Mississippi State’s first African American student, Dr. Richard E. Holmes, now is marked permanently on the campus of the 148-year-old land-grant institution. University officials cut a ribbon today [Aug. 21] on...
NASA has named Joseph R. Schuyler as the next deputy director of the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. In this role, Schuyler will assist the center director in managing NASA’s primary rocket propulsion testing capabilities, which...
By Nathan Gregory, MSU Extension Service August would typically be too early to accurately forecast Mississippi’s soybean crop, but this year, it is a month ahead of schedule – far enough along to predict a promising harvest. Mississippi...
By Roscoe Barnes III, Ph.D., Visit Natchez ArtsNatchez Gallery recently donated $500 worth of art supplies to two first-year art teachers and their classrooms in Natchez and Vidalia, La. The supplies were presented at the gallery to Amanda Coley, an art...
