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Mississippi Delta Community College is expanding workforce training opportunities in Washington County with the addition of three new career-technical education programs at the Greenville Higher Education Center. The college has welcomed Leander Williams Sr. as the new Industrial Electricity Technology instructor, Cheryl Harris as the new Cybersecurity Technology instructor and LaQwariyea Williams as the new…

The Smythe family has been involved in Leland for a long time now. Sherry Smythe, owner of Lagniappe, has put in a lot of work and effort in the revitalization efforts of downtown Leland. Her business, which originally began in Leland, was later moved to Greenville. However, in recent years, Sherry and her family worked…

Members of the Leland-Deer Creek Garden Club returned home from a successful awards season after receiving a large collection of honors at both the Garden Clubs of Mississippi State Convention in Natchez and the Deep South Garden Clubs Convention, recognizing the club’s dedication to beautification, conservation, education, community service and horticultural excellence. The club captured…

The 2008 subprime crisis caused the U.S. to rescue financial institutions deemed too big to fail. The cost was socialized on taxpayers.  A lookalike crisis is brewing in Mississippi. Its cost may fall on Entergy’s residential customers. The conventional explanation for the subprime crash is that home prices fell in 2006 and borrowers defaulted. It’s…

The 2nd Quarter did not disappoint for drama or trauma. On 13 April the U.S. initiated a three Carrier Strike Force blockade of the Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Less than two months later, the U.S. began on again off again ceasefires which continue still. All that sound and fury did little to…