Olive Branch's own K.J. Wright will be hosting his annual Alumni Charity Basketball Game later this month at Olive Branch High School. A Super Bowl Champion linebacker for the Seattle Seahawks, Wright attended school in kindergarten through twelfth grade in Olive Branch. The charity event wi…
Members of the DeSoto Civic Garden Club celebrate DeSoto County Garden Week with a proclamation from the Board of Supervisors.
The week of June 4 - 10 has been designated as DeSoto County Garden Week, as established by National Garden Clubs, Inc. The DeSoto County Board of Supervisors met on May 15.
Associated Wholesale Grocers (AWG) in Hernando, Mississippi, through its AWG Cares Advisory Committee, made a $10,000 MISSISSIPPI TORNADO RELIEF grant to the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi. The grant was designated for tornado relief efforts in the Rolling Fork, Mississippi area.
More than 300 hundred children competed in the annual Olive Branch Fishing Rodeo on Saturday morning at the George M. Harrison Municipal Park.
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.
Clay Willingham, a firefighter with the Horn Lake Fire Department, was named Mississippi Firefighter of the Year at the Governor's Public Safety Awareness Awards ceremony in Jackson on May 10.
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…
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…
Hernando Civic Garden Club has named the new Trustmark Bank which opened on December 12, 2022, as the Business of the Year based on its landscaping and beautification of the grounds. A sign designating the honor has been placed at the site and will remain through fall. Trustmark Bank’s mot…
As part of National Library Week, B. J. Chain Public Library in Olive Branch sponsored “Books and Boxed Lunch” April 26th featuring DeSoto County author Tracy Crump of Nesbit.
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…
June Whitehurst will celebrate her 100th birthday on March 23.
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…
Reynolds "Ren" McCaleb of Nesbit recently served as a page for the Mississippi Senate. Pages generally run errands for officials and Senate staff.
The Olive Branch community has taken action to help a local family after they lost everything they own in a devastating house fire.
Christian Macklin of Horn Lake recently served as a page for the Mississippi House of Representatives. Pages generally run errands for officials and House staff.
First Regional Library has announced plans for a series of Legal Information Programs, conducted by Brittany Bane, DeSoto County Law Librarian.
The Horn Lake Mayor’s Youth Council collected books for LeBonheur Children’s Hospital. The drive was in support of Ann Ashcraft’s Heart for Books in her memory. Christian MackLin, Anna Trillet and Anna Francisco collected the most books. The effort was sponsored by Lipscomb and Pitts and McG…
Through a generous grant from the Scarlet Pearl Casino, the Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi has established a fund to support the Advanced STEM Access Program, an innovative program that provides promising high school students in rural, high-poverty Mississippi communities a…
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…
Northwest Mississippi Community College officials announced 356 graduates have been awarded degrees and certificates for the fall 2022 semester.
The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) awarded undergraduate, graduate and specialist degrees to approximately 1,270 students graduating in the fall 2022 semester.
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…
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…
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…
The Northwest Miss. Writers Guild met on Nov. 5 at the Olive Branch public library. This was only our second official meeting.
New officers of the DeSoto County Retired Education Personnel Association were elected Monday, Oct. 24th, at their meeting at the Southaven Public Library.
Historic carriage rides departing from the DeSoto County Museum beginning at 10:15 a.m. this Saturday as part of the Annual Hernando Dickens of A Christmas.
Ida Mae Cottrell will celebrate her 102nd birthday this week. She was on Nov. 4, 1920 in Kosciusko and has two children, four grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
The University of Alabama has named Jake Ford of Olive Branch among it's annual cohort of students for the 2022-2023 Freshman Forum.
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…
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.
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.
