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Leland Makes Things Happen- A Small Delta Hot Spot
By Greta Sharp Leland sees itself as a good investment, thanks to its growing economy, strong businesses and involved community members. “Like a lot of Delta communities, we jump in the new year and make things happen,” says resident Stephanie Patton. Some of Leland’s biggest news involves businesses. The city is welcoming two new drug […]
Hooker Grocer + Eatery- Clarksdale Gets a New and Slightly Different Restaurant and Market
By Angela Rogalski In November 2018, Clarksdale got a new restaurant, market, and butcher shop all rolled into one great new business, Hooker Grocer + Eatery located on John Lee Hooker Lane. Operations manager and head chef Johnny Cass is an award winning Australian chef who has been living in Clarksdale for three years. Cass […]
Peyton Potter – Third Generation Farmer
By mark stowers • Photography by Roy Meeks Peyton Potter was born into farming in Washington County and he’s the third generation to toil the Delta area acreage that that continues to provide for his family. Growing up on his dad and grandfather’s farm, the forty year-old Potter followed along in the path they made […]
Two MVSU officers complete police academy
Two Mississippi Valley State University officers are now ready to protect and serve after successfully completing the Law Enforcement Training Academy at Mississippi Delta Community College. Officers Svante’ Brown of Greenwood and Henry Manuel, Jr. of Moorhead were among 24 cadets to graduate from the Academy Aug. 2 in Moorhead. “Both of these young men […]
Regulations and Fuel Costs are Challenges- Moving Drivers into More Technology is Key
By Mark H. Stowers Trucks need to be moving from point A to point B at the least amount of cost in the shortest period of time. Technology and regulations are not always aimed at that end though. Today’s truck driver and trucking companies face a litany of regulations they have to maintain on and […]
Flint’s Hardware- Serving the Community for 129 Years
By Angela Rogalski • Photography by Timothy Ivy It’s quite amazing that a small Delta business could make it 20 years, but 129? Flint and Son, better known as Flint’s Hardware, celebrates being a thriving business since 1889, when C.H. Flint saw a golden opportunity in Batesville. To put the business’ longevity into the right […]
UM Alumna Begins Endowment to Rename Magazine Innovation Center
University of Mississippi alumna Amy Lyles Wilson is working to raise $100,000 to rename the Magazine Innovation Center at the Meek School of Journalism and New Media for the center’s longtime director and journalism professor Samir Husni. A former student of Husni’s, Wilson wants to rename the foundation of the university’s magazine program to the […]
Renovations Scheduled to Begin for Myrtle Hall Library
Amanda Jones, Director of Family and Youth Opportunities, is coordinating a movement in Clarksdale to renovate the old Myrtle Hall School Library and turn it into the Myrtle Hall Library for Negroes Museum. The renovation began July 1 and the library is tentatively scheduled to open May 4, 2019. “We want to do this for […]
Luke Andrews- Chairman of Farm Bureau Young Farmers and Ranchers
By MARK H. STOWERS Farm Bureau has always held farmers and ranchers in high esteem and work to insure their futures in the field and pasture. The Farm Bureau Young Farmers and Rancher program—created for members ages eighteen to thirty-five—was designed to encourage these young men and women to use their own knowledge and information […]
Section of U.S. 82 in Leflore County Renamed in Honor of Crash Victims
Part of U.S. 82 in Leflore County is being renamed in honor of the fifteen Marines and one Navy Corpsman who died on July 10, 2017 in a plane crash that happened occurred about a mile from the Leflore/Sunflower County line inside Leflore County. Greenwood businessman and president of Hammons & Associates, Allan Hammons, and […]
