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Memorial services were held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2026, at Christ Community Church for Mr. Keith Wayne Whipple Sr., 81, of Grenada, who died on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025, at his residence.
Keith was born on Jan. 29, 1944, in Lansing, Mich., the son of the late Earl Whipple and the late Ruby Lindaur Whipple. He proudly served his country in the United States Air Force. He spent his career in sales in the food industry.
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Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, at Carrollton Baptist Church for Mary Allen Campbell Moore, 93, of Carrollton, who was lovingly referred to as “Nanu” by many people who knew her and was a beloved member of her family and community, who died peacefully at her residence on Saturday, Jan. 17. Burial followed in Evergreen Cemetery. Visitation was held one hour prior to the service on Wednesday, Jan. 21, at the church.
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A graveside service will be held at a later date for Roy Green Keeton, 75, a man of profound faith and exceptional intelligence, who was called to his eternal home on Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, in Chattanooga, Tenn., surrounded by the love of his family.
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DEATH NOTICE: Memorial service plans will be announced at a later date for Mrs. Amber Lynn Stone, 45, of Ackerman, who died on Friday, Jan. 16, 2026, in Ackerman.
McKibben and Guinn Funeral Service in Grenada is in charge of arrangements.
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Graveside services were held at 10 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 19, 2026, in Calvary Cemetery in Carroll County for Mrs. Thelma Jean Bailey Inman Winters, 84, of Grenada, who died peacefully on Saturday, Jan. 17, in Jackson. Pastor John Staszefski officiated. All family and friends were welcome to attend.
Thelma was the former cook at Providence Assisted Living and retired from Pennaco Hosiery Mill.
Her parents, Wilton and Ollie Tribble Bailey, and her siblings: Dalton, Guy, James Lee, Wilton Jr. and Mary, preceded Thelma in death.
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Funeral services were held at noon on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2025, in the Oliver Funeral Home Chapel in Winona for Linda Joyce Bond Barnhill, 82, of Winona, who died on Monday, Jan. 12, in Vaiden. Burial followed in Bluff Springs Cemetery in Carroll County. The Rev. Reidis Nash officiated the chapel service and the Rev. Billy Little officiated the graveside service. Visitation was held from 10 a.m. until service time on Thursday, Jan. 15, at Oliver Funeral Home.
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Graveside services were held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026, in Elliott Cemetery for Mr. Richard Earl Smith, 59, of Elliott, formerly of Cascilla, who died on Sunday, Jan. 11, surrounded by family and friends. Pastor Michael Payton officiated.
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Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, at McKibben and Guinn Funeral Service in Grenada for Mrs. Sylvia Ellen Penton, 92, of Grenada, who died on Wednesday, Jan. 7, at her daughter’s residence. The committal service followed at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 11, in the Pinecrest Cemetery in Gautier. The Rev. Eugene Heimbach officiated.
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Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, at McKibben and Guinn Funeral Service in Grenada to honor the remarkable life of George David Hightower III, 92, who went to be with the Lord on Monday, Dec. 29, 2025. A private burial followed in Woodlawn Cemetery. Family and friends gathered one hour prior to the service on Saturday, Jan. 10, at McKibben and Guinn.
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Robert St. John says sometimes we’re too hard on Mississippi. We know the flaws. We’ve lived with them. But we can’t see the forest for the pine trees, as they say.
Marco had never seen a pine plantation.
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1 month 3 weeks ago
Below is an opinion column by Barrett Donahoe:
This is not about politics. It is about students. It is about families, and ensuring that every child—regardless of zip code or income—has access to an education that nurtures both the mind and the heart.
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1 month 3 weeks ago
There are moments in a republic when the noise of slogans must give way to the quiet insistence of conscience.
This is one of them.
We are told, almost daily, that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is pursuing the “worst of the worst.” Instead, the machinery of enforcement has turned its iron attention on those who have committed no crime beyond believing, worshiping, and hoping in the wrong direction.
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1 month 3 weeks ago
“Are we really going to be the Gestapo?” podcaster Joe Rogan asked. “‘Where’s your papers?’ Is that what we’ve come to?”
Uproar over ICE and Border Patrol aggressive tactics has begun to breach President Donald Trump’s fortress.
“Hate to say it, but they are all lying,” posted lifelong Mississippi Republican Pete Perry on Facebook. “Denial of what we have seen, what has been put in front of us – them and us – and ignored and lied about. We saw it. They saw it. And they know we and everyone else have seen the truth.”
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Over the past few years, Mississippi lawmakers have passed some critical conservative reforms. Last year, Mississippi became the first state in America to legislate to eliminate the income tax in 40 years. In 2022, we implemented flat tax reform. A few years before that, we passed important labor market reforms. In 2024, we reformed school funding to get more money into the classroom.
It is thanks to these flagship conservative reforms that Mississippi has enjoyed more economic growth in the past five years than over the previous fifteen combined.
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Spin the truth, spin the youth,
confound the status quo
so they worry, fear and
Not understand
Do you trust your propaganda?
Those who owned the news
knew they could abuse
manipulate disenfranchised discord weaponized with indignant terrified urgency
Do you trust your propaganda?
The personally wounded, entitled,
idealistic, masters of displaced liability
and lacking self accountability
Do you trust your propaganda?
It is us against them, them against us
By Suzannah McGowan on
1 month 3 weeks ago
Dear Editor:
With all due respect to the one or more state leaders who believe antifa (anTEEfuh) and basement dwelling keyboard warriors are the problem in Minneapolis, they are not. It is clearly the Gestapo like tactics of ICE.
Those leaders are glad we don't have that going on in Mississippi. I am, too, but I know why. They do, too. It is not because we don't have quite a few undocumented residents and a large city with a Democratic mayor. The difference is we have a Trumpublican leadership. Minnesota does not.
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Steve Jent, the exec director of Century Club Charities, announced recently that the Wayne-Sanderson Farms PGA golf tournament will no longer be held this year. So, after having a PGA professional golf tournament in Mississippi for 58 years we will have no sponsor, and therefore no tournament. Last year Century Club Charities, which organizes the tournament, gave $1 million to Blair Batson Children's Hospital, and $700m to several other charities.
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Louisiana’s U.S. Senator John Kennedy has written a national best-seller, “How to Test Negative for Stupid And Why Washington Never Will.” The preposterous conceit that drives the book is that everybody, or almost everybody, in the nation’s capital is stupid, with the exception of Senator Kennedy.
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1 month 3 weeks ago
Average gasoline prices in Mississippi have fallen 0.6 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $2.38/g today, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 2,014 stations in Mississippi. Prices in Mississippi are 1.7 cents per gallon lower than a month ago and stand 25.2 cents per gallon lower than a year ago. The national average price of diesel has decreased 4.2 cents compared to a week ago and stands at $3.585 per gallon.
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There have been recent reports of large job cuts across the country. E-commerce and technology giant Amazon, for example, is eliminating 16,000 corporate jobs, partly to reduce its organizational structure — but also because it expects “efficiency gains” as artificial intelligence is used more extensively across the company.
Almost at the same time, United Parcel Service said it will eliminate 30,000 delivery jobs — in part because it is getting less business from Amazon.
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