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The frigid temperatures last Monday morning could not keep several community members from remembering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the annual MLK Celebration. The Benton march concluded at Oak Grove A.M.E. Church. More photographs appear on The Herald's Facebook page.
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Three bids were submitted to the city council last week for the highly anticipated exterior wall repair to the historic Triangle Cultural Center.
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen will be reviewing the submitted bids that could lead the city of Yazoo City one step closer to beginning the renovation project to the center’s exterior wall, which has been in limbo for over five years. The submitted bids range from over a million dollars to about $200,000.
Those three bids submitted include:
United Restoration and Preservation, Inc; $1,530,000
By Jamie Patterson on
2 months 1 week ago
Three bids were submitted to the city council last week for the highly anticipated exterior wall repair to the historic Triangle Cultural Center.
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen will be reviewing the submitted bids that could lead the city of Yazoo City one step closer to beginning the renovation project to the center’s exterior wall, which has been in limbo for over five years. The submitted bids range from over a million dollars to about $200,000.
Those three bids submitted include:
United Restoration and Preservation, Inc; $1,530,000
By Jamie Patterson on
2 months 1 week ago
Three bids were submitted to the city council last week for the highly anticipated exterior wall repair to the historic Triangle Cultural Center.
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen will be reviewing the submitted bids that could lead the city of Yazoo City one step closer to beginning the renovation project to the center’s exterior wall, which has been in limbo for over five years. The submitted bids range from over a million dollars to about $200,000.
Those three bids submitted include:
United Restoration and Preservation, Inc; $1,530,000
By Jamie Patterson on
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Two of the mainstays of our country's legal system are that we are a country of laws, and that no person is above the law.
As a country of laws, we cannot park our cars in the middle of the road or drive at 100 mph. We follow, or we should follow, the ten commandments that state our limits in society. Without these laws our country would be in chaos. The second characteristic is that no individual is above the law. This applies equally to billionaires and paupers, to all races and ethnicities, to young and old, to everyone.
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Members of Jackson Prep’s seventh grade basketball team for 2025-2026 include (from left, back) Parkes Thiel, Wade Covington, Sam Williams, Grant Roberts, Jeremiah Wells, Liam McKercher, Trey Ramsey, Zander Robinson, Harrison James, Matthew Woo, Eli Williams; and (front) Ric Rutledge, Wynn Garner, Charlie Jones, Wade Goodman, Hank Walker, Reed Hurley, Patrick Gunn, David Mann, Jake Johnson, and Ford Collins.
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The following message is from MIchael Neely, General Manager of Yazoo Valley Electric Power Association
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The following message is from MIchael Neely, General Manager of Yazoo Valley Electric Power Association
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The following message is from MIchael Neely, General Manager of Yazoo Valley Electric Power Association
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Madison-Ridgeland Academy honor roll students for the second nine weeks of 2026 term include:
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“You shall not be partial to the poor or weak nor defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor.”
— Leviticus 19:15
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Madison-Ridgeland Academy honor roll students for the second nine weeks of 2026 term include:
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On the first day of the 2026 session, the Mississippi Senate took a strong position against public school vouchers. “Vouchers are not on the table in the Senate,” Mississippi Today reported Education Committee Chairman Sen. Dennis DeBar, Jr., as saying. Later that day the full Senate easily passed two education bills locking in that position.
Will the Senate be able to stick to it?
By Bill Crawford - Syndicated columnist on
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The Yazoo community was well represented at the Mississippi Capitol last week at the third annual Yazoo Day at the Capitol, sponsored by the Yazoo County Board of Supervisors. Nearly 200 citizens, leaders, and supporters traveled to Jackson to advocate for the priorities and progress of Yazoo County.
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The Yazoo community was well represented at the Mississippi Capitol last week at the third annual Yazoo Day at the Capitol, sponsored by the Yazoo County Board of Supervisors. Nearly 200 citizens, leaders, and supporters traveled to Jackson to advocate for the priorities and progress of Yazoo County.
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Years ago while on a business trip to Europe, I visited Versailles, the storied palace monument to French King Louis XIV. It is magnificent, filled with excess of a former age, over the top but un-tacky.
Approaching from the front, the huge building looms in front of one , drawing the eye upward to embellished cornices and countless windows, designed to impress foreign ambassadors and courtiers. It did.
By Linda Berry - Guest columnist on
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The Yazoo community was well represented at the Mississippi Capitol last week at the third annual Yazoo Day at the Capitol, sponsored by the Yazoo County Board of Supervisors. Nearly 200 citizens, leaders, and supporters traveled to Jackson to advocate for the priorities and progress of Yazoo County.
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Photo by Jenny Woodruff Wilson, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
The Mississippi Museum of Art will host “Art Party 2026: A Floral Fete” Saturday, January 31 at 7 p.m. The evening will include an auction, live music from Even Odds, cocktail dinner, and raffle. The party benefits exhibitions, public program and educational initiatives. Planning the event are (from left, back) Caroline Bobinger, Cara Carr, Prentiss Franklin, Airriel O’Banner Quinn, Claire Thompson Sneed, Betsy Baird Martin, Julia Ryan, Courtney Wright; and (front) Sperri Strickland, Christina McRae, Walton Fenelon Lane and Vaughan Coffin.
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Tom Lehrer’s “National Brotherhood Week” on “That Was The Week That Was” — TW3 —notes, in the introduction, that “During National Brotherhood Week various special events are arranged to drive home the message of brotherhood — this year, for example, on the first day of the week, Malcolm X was killed, which gives you an idea of how effective the whole thing is,” before specifying at the outset of a couple of verses,
“Oh, the white folks hate the black folks,
And the black folks hate the white folks;
To hate all but the right folks
Is an old established rule
By Jay Wiener - Guest Columnist on
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The Mississippi Department of Human Services is expected to explore a funding model advocates for months have proposed as a solution to the state’s child care crisis, agency director Bob Anderson announced during a Senate Public Health Committee meeting Wednesday.
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