Area News

      Leland’s Dquan J. Wilson recently won second place in the chicken category at the Greenville Fire Department’s 2nd Annual Grillin’ on the Levee contest. The event was a benefit for the Boys and Girls Club of Washington County. Wilson serves as Leland’s Fire Chief and Inspector.

  State Fair officials have announced security measures, preparations and new details ahead of the Great American Mississippi State Fair taking place October 2-13, 2025. Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Andy Gipson was joined by law enforcement officials partnering to provide security on the Mississippi Fairgrounds during the State Fair, as well as other officials and…

                        Members of Andrew Ewing Masonic Lodge #712 served meals to first responders during a community appreciation event earlier this summer at the Leland Fire Department Training Center. The lodge provided food and fellowship to thank first responders from across Washington County.

  U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced eligible livestock producers will receive disaster recovery assistance through the Emergency Livestock Relief Program for 2023 and 2024 Flood and Wildfire (ELRP 2023 and 2024 FW) to help offset increased supplemental feed costs due to a qualifying flood or qualifying wildfire in calendar years 2023 and…

      Students from Leland Elementary, Junior High, and High School recently toured the Greenville Mid-Delta Airport and Air Force Base Museum. The group, ranging in age from six to seventeen, explored aircraft, learned about aviation history and got an up-close look at firefighting equipment.

Mississippi Delta Community College (MDCC) has expanded its Prison Education Program (PEP) this semester, establishing classes at four additional correctional facilities across the Delta. Through new Memoranda of Understanding with the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC), courses are now underway at Delta Correctional Facility, Issaquena County Correctional Facility and Washington County Correctional Facility, with classes…

Mississippi doctors are urging adults to double-check immunizations after a rise in pertussis, or whooping cough, across the state. While no deaths have been reported, state health officials say cases have quadrupled compared to this time last year. Mississippi had 80 cases reported by mid July compared to 49 cases for the entire year of…

Work is underway on a twenty-five-year comprehensive forest management plan aimed at improving the 2,800-acre bottomland hardwood portion of Mississippi State University’s Delta Research and Extension Center (DREC). This tract is known as “Stoneville Woods.” “In forestry, a tract of property like Stoneville Woods is one large ecosystem. To maximize the potential of a working…

Delta Health Alliance (DHA), headquartered in Stoneville, is moving quickly to restart Head Start and Early Head Start services in Lee, Itawamba, Pontotoc and Union counties, after the previous providers’ funding was not renewed. DHA, which, according to agency officials, currently serves roughly 882 children in the Mississippi Delta through its Head Start programs, was…

After a lunch stop at Fratesi’s in Leland with local producers, Mississippi Agriculture and Commerce Commissioner Andy Gipson visited Crop to Pop at the invitation of Rhonda Looney, a longtime Leland resident who, with her husband Mark, raises, cleans and packages their line of Mississippi-grown popcorn on the family’s farm in neighboring Tribbett. Inside the…