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A Celebration of Life Service was held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, at First Methodist Church in Grenada for Mr. John Thomas “Tommy” McRee, 63, of Grenada, who died on Sunday, Dec. 7, at his residence. Tommy was laid to rest alongside his parents in the McRee family plot in Woodlawn Cemetery. The Rev. Daniel Herring officiated.
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Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, at McKibben and Guinn Funeral Service in Grenada for Mr. Marvin Pennington Freeman, 81, of Holcomb, who died on Sunday, Dec. 7, at his residence. Burial with military honors followed in Sparta Cemetery. The Rev. Jerry McNeer officiated.
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2 months ago
Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, at McKibben and Guinn Funeral Service in Grenada for Mr. Marvin Pennington Freeman, 81, of Holcomb, who died on Sunday, Dec. 7, at his residence. Burial with military honors followed in Sparta Cemetery. The Rev. Jerry McNeer officiated.
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2 months ago
A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 21, 2025, in Grenada Memorial Garden for Mrs. Beverly Stevens Blackwood Jones, 76, of Grenada, who died on Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, in Meadville.
Beverly was born on March 7, 1949, in Batesville, the daughter of the late Frank Scott Blackwood and the late Inez Simpson Blackwood. She was a graduate of Northwest Mississippi Community College where she met her husband of 54 years, James W. “Bill” Jones.
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2 months ago
Entergy Mississippi CEO Haley Fisackerly speaks with The Grenada Star's Publisher Adam Prestridge during his visit to view storm damage in Grenada Thursday afternoon.
Winter Storm Fern coated Grenada County and much of north Mississippi in a thick layer of ice last weekend, uprooting trees, snapping limbs and loading down power lines and poles, leaving thousands of Entergy Mississippi customers in the dark for days.
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2 months ago
Photo by Adam Prestridge, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Entergy Mississippi CEO Haley Fisackerly speaks with The Grenada Star's Publisher Adam Prestridge during his visit to view storm damage in Grenada Thursday afternoon.
Winter Storm Fern coated Grenada County and much of north Mississippi in a thick layer of ice last weekend, uprooting trees, snapping limbs and loading down power lines and poles, leaving thousands of Entergy Mississippi customers in the dark for days.
By Adam Prestridge - Publisher on
2 months ago
Photo by Adam Prestridge, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Entergy Mississippi CEO Haley Fisackerly speaks with The Grenada Star's Publisher Adam Prestridge during his visit to view storm damage in Grenada Thursday afternoon.
Winter Storm Fern coated Grenada County and much of north Mississippi in a thick layer of ice last weekend, uprooting trees, snapping limbs and loading down power lines and poles, leaving thousands of Entergy Mississippi customers in the dark for days.
By Adam Prestridge - Publisher on
2 months ago
Photo by Adam Prestridge, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Entergy Mississippi CEO Haley Fisackerly speaks with The Grenada Star's Publisher Adam Prestridge during his visit to view storm damage in Grenada Thursday afternoon.
Winter Storm Fern coated Grenada County and much of north Mississippi in a thick layer of ice last weekend, uprooting trees, snapping limbs and loading down power lines and poles, leaving thousands of Entergy Mississippi customers in the dark for days.
By Adam Prestridge - Publisher on
2 months ago
Hospitals and health facilities in Mississippi are continuing to provide critical care to patients in the wake of a treacherous winter storm, even as they endure power outages, impassable roads and no running water.
Scott Simmons, Mississippi Emergency Management Authority’s external affairs director, said his agency is working to bring 30 generators to North Mississippi hospitals, long-term care facilities, nursing homes and warming centers. He said multiple locations had generators that failed over the weekend, and only some had come back online by Monday morning.
By Gwen Dilworth, Sophia Paffenroth and Allen Siegler - Mississippi Today on
2 months ago
Hospitals and health facilities in Mississippi are continuing to provide critical care to patients in the wake of a treacherous winter storm, even as they endure power outages, impassable roads and no running water.
Scott Simmons, Mississippi Emergency Management Authority’s external affairs director, said his agency is working to bring 30 generators to North Mississippi hospitals, long-term care facilities, nursing homes and warming centers. He said multiple locations had generators that failed over the weekend, and only some had come back online by Monday morning.
By Gwen Dilworth, Sophia Paffenroth and Allen Siegler - Mississippi Today on
2 months ago
Delta State’s nationally renowned NCAA Division II baseball team was supposed to open the 2026 season Friday against Harding (Arkansas) University in Cleveland.
That won’t happen. Boo Ferriss Field at Harvey Stadium on the DSU campus in Cleveland is covered in ice and snow. At noon Monday, the temperature was 21 degrees. The wind chill was 7. The weekend forecast is for more freezing temperatures. The DSU Statesmen are sometimes called the Fighting Okra, but they would be more like Eskimos if they played this weekend.
By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today on
2 months ago
Delta State’s nationally renowned NCAA Division II baseball team was supposed to open the 2026 season Friday against Harding (Arkansas) University in Cleveland.
That won’t happen. Boo Ferriss Field at Harvey Stadium on the DSU campus in Cleveland is covered in ice and snow. At noon Monday, the temperature was 21 degrees. The wind chill was 7. The weekend forecast is for more freezing temperatures. The DSU Statesmen are sometimes called the Fighting Okra, but they would be more like Eskimos if they played this weekend.
By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today on
2 months ago
Delta State’s nationally renowned NCAA Division II baseball team was supposed to open the 2026 season Friday against Harding (Arkansas) University in Cleveland.
That won’t happen. Boo Ferriss Field at Harvey Stadium on the DSU campus in Cleveland is covered in ice and snow. At noon Monday, the temperature was 21 degrees. The wind chill was 7. The weekend forecast is for more freezing temperatures. The DSU Statesmen are sometimes called the Fighting Okra, but they would be more like Eskimos if they played this weekend.
By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today on
2 months ago
As with tens of thousands of fellow Mississippians since a winter storm struck during the weekend, the Hood family of Oxford was coping with the loss of electricity as best they could early Monday in their Northpointe neighborhood home about 2 miles north of Square.
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2 months ago
A Nike spokesperson said Monday that the company is “accelerating the use of advanced technology and automation.”
Sportswear leader Nike announced this week that the company is laying off approximately 775 employees at distribution centers in Mississippi and Tennessee.
It is unclear how the layoffs will impact the centers in Byhalia, Southaven and Memphis.
The cuts follow nearly 1,000 corporate jobs Nike slashed during the summer of 2025.
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2 months ago
SHERIFF’S REPORTS
Audrealle Gray Tallulah, LA DOB 1/29/96 Return for Bonding
Billy Ray Drew Jr. Tallulah, LA DOB 4/29/75 Fugitive Warrant, Tensas Parish
Kayla Lester Tallulah, LA DOB 9/23/89 Warrant # 79235
Jaleel Wesley Tallulah, LA Warrant # 79232
Kaleb Davis Returned for Bonding
William White Tallulah, LA Remain after being Forbidden, Theft of Goods
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2 months ago
SHERIFF’S REPORTS
Audrealle Gray Tallulah, LA DOB 1/29/96 Return for Bonding
Billy Ray Drew Jr. Tallulah, LA DOB 4/29/75 Fugitive Warrant, Tensas Parish
Kayla Lester Tallulah, LA DOB 9/23/89 Warrant # 79235
Jaleel Wesley Tallulah, LA Warrant # 79232
Kaleb Davis Returned for Bonding
William White Tallulah, LA Remain after being Forbidden, Theft of Goods
By Staff reports on
2 months ago
SHERIFF’S REPORTS
Audrealle Gray Tallulah, LA DOB 1/29/96 Return for Bonding
Billy Ray Drew Jr. Tallulah, LA DOB 4/29/75 Fugitive Warrant, Tensas Parish
Kayla Lester Tallulah, LA DOB 9/23/89 Warrant # 79235
Jaleel Wesley Tallulah, LA Warrant # 79232
Kaleb Davis Returned for Bonding
William White Tallulah, LA Remain after being Forbidden, Theft of Goods
By Staff reports on
2 months ago
Can Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann do what so many government leaders have touted but failed to accomplish and actually reorganize state government? He has his Mississippi Senate looking to restructure state government and run it more like a business.
A little history.
By Bill Crawford on
2 months ago
Can Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann do what so many government leaders have touted but failed to accomplish and actually reorganize state government? He has his Mississippi Senate looking to restructure state government and run it more like a business.
A little history.
By Bill Crawford on
