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The committee chairwomen and co-chairwomen for the 69th Annual Junior Auxiliary Charity Cotton Ball are, from left, back row: Abby Branch, Shelby Barret, Haley Moore, Katy Lee Montgomery, Cari Brooke White, Anne Claire Fandel, Madeline Sykes, Hannah Cox, Lori Beth Gann, Morgan McCaleb, Meghan Gregg, Diana Mims, Karlee Carpenter, Sarah Beth Hardin and Sarah Kay Davidson; front row: Madeline Kirk, Abbey Goodman Hanks, Lainey Harreld and Erin McBride.

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Junior Auxiliary to present 2026 Cotton Ball

Sun,02/15/26-1:00AM, 2,193 Reads
The Junior Auxiliary of Greenwood's 69th Annual Charity Cotton Ball will be held at the Andrew McQueen Jr. Civic Center on Feb. 21.
A virtual silent auction will begin Monday at 9 a.m. and will come to a close on Feb. 21 at 10 p.m.
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Lonnie Whiting Jr., a resident at the Unita Blackwell Stay Apartments in Mayersville, expressed joy in having electricity restored at the complex. "Everything is electric, so it was hard, but we making it," Whiting said on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

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A winter storm is just the latest test of resilience in the sparsely populated south Delta

By ALEX ROZIER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY ALEX ROZIER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,02/05/26-12:28PM, 2,243 Reads 6,097 Statewide
Preparing to feed a revolving door of linemen Monday at her restaurant Chuck’s Dairy Bar, Tracy Harden recalled the winter storm of 1994, the last one that resembled what many Mississippians have lived through the past two weeks. It was then, 32 years ago, she stumbled upon a lineman she still knows well to this day.
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Audience members express emotion as public comments are given during the DeSoto County School Board meeting in Hernando, Miss. on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today

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DeSoto County school board members want the power to remove a peer. Some legislators are listening

By LEONARDO BEVILACQUA - MISSISSIPPI TODAY LEONARDO BEVILACQUA - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,02/05/26-1:28PM, 2,204 Reads 6,801 Statewide
In DeSoto County, some community members and the school board want Michele Henley, the board’s former president, to resign. They say she wrote a letter and testified in support of a woman who was eventually convicted of sexual battery against a minor. Henley has denied those accusations.
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James Edward ‘Hillbilly’ Blankenship

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James Edward ‘Hillbilly’ Blankenship

Fri,01/30/26-8:30PM, 2,142 Reads
James Edward “Hillbilly” Blankenship, 56, of Sidon went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026.
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