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3 qualify to run for Ward 6 council seat

By TAYLOR THOMPSON TAYLOR THOMPSON - Staff Writer
Sat,01/31/26-2:00AM, 3,341 Reads
Three candidates have qualified to run for the vacant Ward 6 seat on the Greenwood City Council.
Maggie Ellis-Archie, Brittany Gray and Dorothy Randle have qualified to seek the seat made vacant by the Jan. 2 death of Councilwoman Dorothy Glenn.
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Dennis Earl Cheeks Sr.

Tue,01/27/26-7:30PM, 3,130 Reads
Services for Dennis Earl Cheeks Sr. will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church.
Mr. Cheeks, 94, died Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026, at his home.
He was a self-employed carpenter.
Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at Century Funeral Home.
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Author Zelda Hill and his grandsons enjoy a New Year’s event at the Memphis Children’s Museums in which they met with dozens of children to show expose them to Hill’s books and have fun. From the left are Ahmad and Amir Hill, ages 5 and 6, with their granddaddy.

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Words of inspiration: Greenwood native writes about responding to challenges

By SUSAN MONTGOMERY SUSAN MONTGOMERY - Staff Writer
Sun,01/25/26-1:26PM, 3,131 Reads
Before Zelda Hill was born, his mother had become a fan of the works of fiction writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.
He’s the guy who wrote the well-known novel “The Great Gatsby,” and he married another writer, Zelda, who was from Alabama.
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Mississippi prison health care reforms: What lived, what died with legislative deadline?

By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - MISSISSIPPI TODAY MICHAEL GOLDBERG - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,02/05/26-12:20PM, 3,108 Reads 8,976 Statewide
Measures to improve prison health care access and create stronger safeguards against the denial of care in Mississippi prisons survived the first legislative deadline on Tuesday, but several also died.
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