Delta News
Delta Music Institute summer camp inspires future music industry professionals
By Nathan Duff, DSU Communications Fifteen high school students from Mississippi, Arkansas and Georgia spent a week exploring careers in music and entertainment during the 2026 Delta...
Delta State receives IHL approval to establish separate colleges of Business and Aviation
By Nathan Duff, DSU Communications The Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees has approved Delta State University's proposal to separate its current College of...
Delta State concludes third year of Collaborative for Rural STEM Education program
By Nathan Duff, DSU Communications Delta State University recently hosted the concluding conference for the Collaborative for Rural STEM Education (CRSE), bringing together 16...
NPL Construction locating fabrication and manufacturing operations in Greenwood
NPL Construction, a utility and energy infrastructure services company, is expanding its operations to Greenwood with a project that will bring more than $1.9 million in investment and create...
Ora Reed: From Lexington, Mississippi, around the world, and back again
By Marilyn Tinnin, Magnolia Tribune Gifted jazz singer-pianist Ora Reed, once named “Mississippi’s Cultural Ambassador” by former Governor Haley Barbour and an inductee into the...
It’s the third of June and the haunting mystery of Gentry’s ‘Ode to Billy Joe’ remains
By Sid Salter, Magnolia Tribune The lyric is clean and iconic, especially in the Deep South and, most of all, in Mississippi. For those of a certain generation, it instantly evokes a...