Delta News
Roberts-LaForge Library Receives Grant to Better Serve Patrons with Disabilities
The Roberts-LaForge Library has been selected as one of 240 libraries to participate in Libraries Transforming Communities: Accessible Small and Rural Communities, an American Library Association...
Latest Mississippi Writers Trail marker unveiled in Greenwood
The latest Mississippi Writers Trail marker was unveiled today in Greenwood. The marker, located at the Rail Spike Trail on Johnson Street in Greenwood between Fulton Street and Howard Street,...
Charter schools apply to open in Clarksdale and Greenville in 2024
by Julia James, Mississippi Today June 12, 2023 Two proposed charter schools have made it through the first stage of the annual application process with hopes of opening in the Delta. This year’s...
Lexington police jail civil rights attorney days after she complained to Justice official about them
by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today June 11, 2023 Civil rights attorney Jill Collen Jefferson was arrested Saturday night by Lexington police — the same department she complained about nine days...
Congressman Thompson ANNOUNCES $250,000 awarded to the south delta planning and development, inc.
United States Representative Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) announced The United States Department of Commerce has awarded an Economic Development Administration grant in the amount of $250,000 to...
When disasters are deemed too small, rural Mississippi struggles to recover
by Alex Rozier, Mississippi Today June 6, 2023 Under a mystic blend of pink lightning and green sky, Victoria Jackson called her daughter in a panic, warning her of the news: A tornado was on a path...