Area News

There is a new business making its way to the Mississippi Delta: Stray Dog of the Delta is located at 328 Main Street in Greenville. The Stray Dog of the Delta is Greenville’s neighborhood craft beer bottle shop and beer garden, located in historic downtown Greenville. Owned and operated by Mary Catherine and Nolan Brooks…

By Guest Columnist Jon Meacham He contained multitudes. Sweet and stubborn, charming and rugged, conservative and iconoclastic, strong and sometimes vulnerable, Rick Smythe was forever entwined with this place and its people; forever wed to this land, and to what grows out of it. He was blessed with a world of his own—the world of…

Former Delta State University President Forest Kent Wyatt, whose life became inseparable from the university and the Cleveland community that surrounded it, died Aug. 25 with family by his side in Ridgeland. He was 92. Over 24 years as president, he helped shape the modern Delta State. Over a lifetime, he became one of the…

by Jacob Venuti At the Leland Board of Alderperson’s regular monthly meeting for the month of July, Leigh King and Faith Austin were placed on the agenda on behalf of the Leland Garden Club. King said that the Leland flower bed located at the intersection of Highway 82 and Broad Street is long overdue for…

Delta Health System (DHS) recently welcomed Derek Miles, M.D. to its medical staff, marking the return of comprehensive urology services to the health system and expanding access to specialized care for patients throughout the Mississippi Delta. DHS officials say that Dr. Miles brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in diagnosing and treating conditions affecting…

Mississippi Delta Community College Associate Degree Nursing instructor Amanda Fondren has been named the recipient of the college’s prestigious 2026 TROJAN Teacher Award. Fondren was presented the award by MDCC Executive Vice President and Provost Dr. Valarie Morgan during the college’s Faculty and Staff Convocation on Aug. 10. The TROJAN Teacher Award, an acronym for…

Ann died on September 20, 2020. Our family is grateful to now fulfill her wish to be laid to rest in her hometown of Leland, next to her parents, with all five of her nephews at her side as she returns home. Family and friends gathered for the burial of her cremated remains and a…