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(Photo by Kevin Edwards, Copyright 2023, Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.) The Carl Center on Washington Street had been managed by Karyn Burrus since January 2023 when she was dismissed on July 31 of this year.

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Former Carl Center manager disputes reasoning for dismissal

By KEVIN EDWARDS KEVIN EDWARDS - Staff Writer
Mon,08/11/25-4:04PM, 5,776 Reads
The former manager of The Carl Center is disputing Greenwood Mayor Kenderick Cox’s reasoning for her dismissal.
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Hospital to join rural health program

By KEVIN EDWARDS KEVIN EDWARDS - Staff Writer
Fri,04/25/25-2:00AM, 5,775 Reads
Greenwood Leflore Hospital’s application to join the Rural Community Hospital Demonstration program has been approved.
The program, which GLH will join effective May 1, will provide the hospital additional Medicare reimbursements that are cost-protected and will allow the hospital to open a swing bed unit.
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Man pleads guilty in ’20 shooting

Wed,01/25/23-2:00AM, 5,774 Reads
An Itta Bena man has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the shooting death of another man in 2020, according to a release from District Attorney Dewayne Richardson.
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Carolyn Bryant Donham in 1955. (By Associated Press)

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Carolyn Bryant Donham, at center of Emmett Till death, dies

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Thu,04/27/23-11:59AM, 5,774 Reads
JACKSON — The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of whistling at and accosting her — which caused his 1955 lynching in Mississippi and galvanized a generation of activists to rise up in the Civil Rights Movement — has died at 88.
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