Recently, Northwest Mississippi Community College English instructors Beth Adams and Doug Johnson completed the Invitational Leadership Institute for Teachers at the University of Mississippi Writing Project (UMWP).
Northwest Mississippi Community College Collision Repair Technology instructor Tony Smith (right) gives refinishing advice to student Ryan Barradas of Walls. Barradas is one of four students in the program who has a paid internship this semester.
Northpoint Christian School has announced this year’s valedictorian and salutatorian for the graduating Class of 2019.
A new interstate passing through DeSoto County was expected to bring more business and residential growth. Planners with the city of Hernando and the county say they are ready to map out that growth and configure how it will affect their areas.
DeSoto County Schools (DCS) board members have approved next year’s school calendar, with that approval being made during the board’s most recent meeting at Central Services in Hernando.
DeSoto County Deputy Director of the Emergency Management Agency Josh Harper recently gave a presentation on search and rescue missions to members of the New Bethlehem Presbyterian Church Youth. Harper also demonstrated drone technology.
DeSoto County Schools (DCS) will have an elementary school teacher from Olive Branch as its district Teacher of the Year for the 2018-19 school year.
Legendary Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker Mike Singletary shared his testimony of life, faith and football to more than 1,000 who attended Thursday’s fifth annual Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) fundraiser breakfast at the Landers Center in Southaven.
Band students from up and down the I-55 corridor and beyond were on the Senatobia campus of Northwest Mississippi Community College for the annual I-55 Band Clinic on Feb. 1 and 2. Northwest’s Fine Arts Department has hosted the annual event for over 30 years, according to John Ungurait, dir…
While not actually doing the physical pickup of trash, DeSoto County officials say the “Shame On Y’all” sign campaign has been working to thwart potential litterers of what they are doing to the county’s roadways.
The Executive Director of the Institute of Community Services, Inc. (ICS), Mrs. Eloise McClinton and a DeSoto County resident, recently traveled to Washington, DC to attend a National Head Start conference along with Mrs. Lillie Smith, Field Services Director and Mrs. Angela Mayfield, Admini…
DeSoto County Government recognized work anniversaries of county Emergency Services Agency Director Chris Olson (10 years) and Division Chief Scott Sanko (17 years) during Monday’s Board of Supervisors meeting. From left are Sheriff Bill Rasco, Supervisors Bill Russell and Jesse Medlin, Sank…
Tuesday is an important day for opponents of the City of Olive Branch’s proposal to add about 50 square miles and 5,000 new homes in the Lewisburg and Center Hill areas into its city limits.
It took 68 rounds and 268 correctly spelled words to determine first and second place winners in the 2019 DeSoto County Spelling Bee, a countywide event that included Northpoint Christian, Sacred Heart and DeSoto County Schools.
A DeSoto County Sheriff’s Department deputy is no longer with the force after he resigned on Friday. The resignation came in the wake of his arrest for driving while under the influence near Hattiesburg last week.
It’s been a long push by state public service officials as well as local leaders of the power cooperative that serves the Olive Branch area of DeSoto County, as well as other cooperatives in the Magnolia State.
Legislatures in New York and Virginia have this year considered taking radical steps in recent weeks on the issue of abortion. A measure now in a Mississippi House committee and introduced by a DeSoto County legislator would take a 180-degree turn away from those measures.
Wednesday morning at the Landers Center in Southaven, thousands of youngsters converged on the arena excited about getting to see a professional basketball game played in front of them.
As January ends and February begins, American taxpayers should be close to receiving all of the needed materials, such as W-2 forms to 1099s and other information to fill out their income taxes ahead of the April 15 deadline.
The Republican race for District 25 state Legislature will include a challenger to incumbent Rep. Dan Eubanks of Walls.
DeSoto County Sheriff Bill Rasco (right) and Adult Detention Center Director Chad Wicker have received an accreditation certificate from the American Correctional Association (ACA). Auditors graded the Adult Detention Center facility on 46 mandatory compliance checks, scoring 100 percent; an…
While not held on the actual construction site, dignitaries Monday gathered nearby to turn dirt and celebrate a future Mississippi Army National Guard Readiness Center to be built in DeSoto County.
About this time of year, things can get a little lonely around the kennels of the DeSoto County Animal Services Shelter at 1251 Humane Way in Nesbit. Those kennels however have been way too busy this year, said County Animal Services Director Monica Mock last week.
There’s still more than month to go before the qualifying period ends for the August primary elections, however many of the races have come into better focus as candidates have qualified for the ballot.
Friday’s announcement by President Donald Trump that a deal had been reached and a partial shutdown of the federal government was ending was welcome news for thousands of workers either furloughed or required to work without getting paychecks while the impasse had gone on for 35 days.
Dean Hill Missionary Baptist Church, under the leadership of Pastor Anthony T. Bryant, hosted a community prayer breakfast in honor of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday, Jan. 21, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Dean Hill Missionary Baptist Church, under the leadership of Pastor Anthony T. Bryant, hosted a community prayer breakfast in honor of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday, Jan. 21, Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
More than 75 winners attended the recent DeSoto County Reading Fair. The students were winners from their respective public or private DeSoto County school and were competing in the District Reading Fair, held at the Board of Education room in Hernando. All participants received a medal.
First Baptist Church in Horn Lake has been abuzz on Saturday mornings this month with activity, as the annual Art to Achieve has continued there, an activity done through the Arc Northwest Mississippi, based in Southaven.
The money seems to have fallen into place for DeSoto County to move forward on major road and bridge improvements.
Author and journalist Jesse Holland reminds people whenever he has the chance that his roots lie in Mississippi.
DeSoto County Schools (DCS) Supt. Cory Uselton this week updated a group about the school district’s progress while at the same time receiving a gift from the group of American flags for each DCS school.
Republican Lynn Fitch has served as Mississippi State Treasurer for nearly eight years. Fitch now believes she is ready to move to another state government office after November’s general election.
A DeSoto County man is being held in the DeSoto County Adult Detention Center in Hernando on charges of murder and being a felon in possession of a weapon following the shooting death of his brother Monday evening.
DeSoto County Supervisors spent Monday in a special meeting with county zoning officials to look at recommended revisions to its zoning ordinances. It was one of what will be a number of meetings that will help shape the regulated growth of the county in the future.
DeSoto County boards of aldermen will return to their respective meeting rooms Tuesday evening in regular session.
Program coordinator Dep. Jerald Wheeler with the DeSoto County Sheriff’s Department is in the process of forming another Sheriff’s Citizens Academy program, set to begin next month.
On practically any weekend in northwest Mississippi you'll find a group or buddies with names like Psycho, Robbie, David, Dayne, Coolio, and Chance at one of the disc golf courses, like Latimer Lake Park in Horn Lake, Central Park in Southaven, Arkabutla State Park near Hernando or any of se…
With November elections looming on the horizon, Mississippi lawmakers will be tempted to dodge the spotlight and avoid controversial legislation during the 90-day legislative session that started on Jan. 8th and is scheduled to go through April 7.
The victim of an accident on I-55 near Hernando this week is a DeSoto County elderly woman.
Healing Hearts Child Advocacy Center (HHCAC) has announced that Sally Williams has been selected as the organization’s new Executive Director. Williams will lead the HHCAC’s continued efforts to respond to child abuse with a supportive team approach that reduces trauma through advocacy, trea…
Flu activity is increasing in Mississippi and nationwide, according to Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) officials.
The January meeting of Northwest Mississippi Community College’s Reading Roundtable, made possible with funds from Sycamore Bank, will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 29 at 2 p.m., in the R.C. Pugh Library on the Senatobia campus. Leading this month’s discussion of The Broken Girls by award-winning…
Northwest Mississippi Community College President, Dr. Michael Heindl (left) congratulates newly re-elected board officers Dr. Adam Pugh (center), chairman, Lafayette County, and Cory Uselton (right), vice chairman, DeSoto County at the Jan. 10 meeting of the Board of Trustees. Not pictured …
DeSoto County supervisors this week met for the first time in 2019 with a change of leadership for the new year and a lengthy discussion about a proposed annexation from one of its cities.
There will be a new person next year representing the Northern District, including DeSoto County, on the Mississippi Transportation Commission, after current Commissioner Mike Tagert Tuesday announced he would not be seeking re-election.
A few additional names have popped up on the list of candidates for DeSoto County offices as the qualifying period continues through its March 1 deadline.
Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann this week announced where he would like to be come next January; serving as the state’s Lt. Governor.
The makeup of the DeSoto County School District Board of Education will remain the same, but two members of that board now officially have six more years of service overseeing Mississippi's largest public school district.
In mid-December, the DeSoto Times-Tribune and CLICK Magazine left its longstanding home of Hernando to become a bit more central to the DeSoto County readership it serves as the county’s only news media outlet.
Mississippi is hurting itself in how it addresses health care and education, said state Rep. Robert Foster (R-Hernando), and changes in those areas are critical in the campaign platform he has announced as part of his run for governor.