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Members of the DeSoto Civic Garden Club celebrate DeSoto County Garden Week with a proclamation from the Board of Supervisors.

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More than 300 hundred children competed in the annual Olive Branch Fishing Rodeo on Saturday morning at the George M. Harrison Municipal Park.

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Southaven resident Nathan Waldan has been awarded the Hines Memorial Medal from Indiana State University for Spring 2023. Waldan is a Cybercriminology and Security major who graduated with a 4.0-grade-point average from Indiana State on May 6.

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Robert Long, Curator of the Historic DeSoto Museum gives Olive Branch Elementary students a tour of the Wesson House, home of Olive Branch’s first mayor Benjamin Franklin Wesson, portrayed by Long. The house is located on land purchased from Chickasaw Indian Chief Lush-Pun Tubby. Wesson buil…

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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Inc. Alpha Zeta Omega Chapter DeSoto County plant a tree in Horn Lake on Arbor Day. From left to right: Christina McClain, Bobbi L. King-Warren, Dr. Tiaa Celeste Turner (program chair), Dr. Tamala Boyd Shaw (chapter president), Jessica Mosley (Enhance Our Environm…

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The next meeting of the DeSoto County Retired Education Association will be Tuesday, April 18, 2023, from 2:00 to 3:30 P.M. at the Snowden Grove Forever Young Senior Citizens Center at 3335 Pine Tar Alley, Southaven. Retirees will take a tour of the facilities and will be given membership ap…

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Larry Manning Cox III of Hernando recently served as a page for the Mississippi Senate. Pages generally run errands for officials and Senate staff. Larry is pictured with Lt. Governor C. Delbert Hosemann Jr., and Senator Dr. David Parker, who sponsored his visit. Larry is the son of Wendy an…

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Desoto County brothers Atticus Nelson, (2nd from left), a recent graduate of the University of Mississippi, and Walker Sturgeon, (3rd from left), a Ph.D, candidate at the University of Mississippi, visited with Senator Michael McLendon, (left), and Representative Jerry Darnell, on Gifted Day…

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Former Horn Lake and Southaven High School English and Theater teacher Frances McGuffey listens to retired electrician, plumber, stone cutter, and navy radar technician Kyle Cabot of Maine as he reads his poetry. He admitted that the written word is not his main art form choice. He brought a…

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Horn Lake Middle School English teacher Dana Patton shared her parody of Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem "The Raven." It is included in her published book "Poems of Praise and Imagination" that is available on Amazon to benefit the Southaven Care Center that offers free services for people wit…

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Olive Branch Middle School seventh grade student Savannah Heywood (center) shares her poem about reaching for the stars as her mom, fellow poet Jessica Heywood, and poet Dana Patton listen. Her mom is an accounts payable clerk for a trucking company, but both have learned to love both readin…

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First Regional Library was recently honored at the Mississippi Library Association Annual Conference in Meridian. Linda Willis, Assistant Manager of the Southaven Public Library (left) was awarded the Mary Julia Anderson Award (awarded to a library paraprofessional). FRL also received two Pu…

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The Northwest Mississippi Writers Guild held its inaugural meeting on Oct. 1 in Olive Branch. Members so far include (l to r seated) Deborah Bruce Monroe, Jessica Heywood, Savannah Heywood, Pat Carter (Director), (standing l to r) Anita Collins, and Patsy McCrory. 

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The Northwest Mississippi Writers Guild met for the first time on Oct. 1. at the Olive Branch Public Library. The first group members so far include Deborah Bruce Monroe, Jessica Heywood, Savannah Heywood, Pat Carter (Director), Anita Collins, and Patsy McCrory. 

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Cindy Jones shows before and after photos of cleaning the McKay tombstone in Bethesda Cemetery in Senatobia,