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Riverview Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is experiencing its third outbreak of COVID-19.
Lynda and Joseph Kundrat, with their dog, Gunther, hold hands after placing a bouquet at the memorial site for their son, Staff Sgt. William J. Kundrat, on Friday during the third annual YANKY 72 memorial ceremony. William Kundrat was one of 16 military personnel who died in the crash of a m…
Pillow Academy and Carroll Academy are planning to reopen their campuses for in-person learning at the start of the academic year in August.
Regions Bank is now using only one of its two Greenwood locations — the West Park Avenue branch — because of a COVID-19 incident earlier this month.
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has awarded the city of Greenwood a $4,000 grant to fund a feasibility study on the possible expansion and redevelopment of ArtPlace Mississippi’s downtown building at 212 W. Washington St.
The Greenwood Commonwealth has won 26 journalism awards, including 10 first-place honors, in the Mississippi Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest.
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The Museum of the Mississippi Delta has decided not to accept the Confederate statue that is to be relocated from the Leflore County Courthouse because of the controversy surrounding the monument and the physical limitations of the museum building for housing it.
More than 500 entities in Leflore County received loans through the federal government’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), according to data released this week by the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Small Business Administration.
JACKSON — Mississippi’s five largest hospitals had no intensive care unit beds available for patients by midweek because of a surge in coronavirus cases, officials reported Thursday. Four more hospitals had 5% or less of those beds available.
Perhaps a little-known fact about Leflore County Election Commission President Edward M. Course Jr. was that he was a very active and fairly good golfer.
The North Carrollton mayor and Board of Aldermen are recommending that all residents wear face masks for protection against the coronavirus pandemic.
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With several modifications, the massive Bikes, Blues and Bayous bike ride is still scheduled for Aug. 1 despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hailey Elise Truman performs during a creative drama workshop at Meridian Little Theatre in Meridian on Wednesday. The 44 youngsters participating in the workshop wore masks and followed other social-distancing guidelines to limit the spread of COVID-19.
Following a series of shootings that claimed the lives of three men and injured several others last month, Greenwood residents and city leaders have discussed ways to curb the violence.
Another coronavirus infection within Greenwood’s Public Works Department has caused a delay in trash pickup.
The Greenwood Country Club has hired Theodore “Ted” Roman as its new executive chef.
An announcement from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency that international students will have their U.S. visas revoked if they do not take in-person classes this fall represents “a serious blow to both educational institutions and local economies,” says a top administrator at Mis…
CLINTON — A Mississippi judge has found a former president of Jackson State and Mississippi Valley State universities guilty of misdemeanor charges related to a prostitution sting.
The Mississippi Municipal League has honored the town of Carrollton with a City Spirit award in connection with the town’s annual Pilgrimage and Pioneer Day Festival.
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Leflore County has experienced three more deaths from COVID-19, all of them residents of nursing homes or other long-term care facilities.
Since reopening June 1, Greenwood-Leflore Public Library has stayed busy even with its new safety guidelines.
A boy from St. Louis who would have celebrated his second birthday in August drowned in a swimming pool over the weekend while visiting his great-grandmother in Greenwood.
The third annual YANKY 72 memorial ceremony has moved up a day.
The Greenwood Leflore Consolidated School Board approved the district’s salary scale for the 2020-2021 school year at its Tuesday meeting.
About 60 people took part in a peaceful protest and voter registration drive held in Itta Bena over the weekend.
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The Carroll County Sheriff’s Department arrested and charged two men following a traffic stop on Mississippi 35 in North Carrollton Thursday.
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Leflore County’s death count from COVID-19 is up to 53 with the addition Tuesday of two more victims of the respiratory disease.
After hearing a historian speak Monday about the significance of the Confederate monument that has long graced the Leflore County Courthouse lawn, county supervisors still opted to move forward with the removal of the monument.
The Rev. Terry Williams, a co-chair of the Leflore County chapter of Mission Mississippi, delivers a sermon Saturday at a prayer gathering held by the organization.
Leflore County no longer has an active outbreak of COVID-19 at a nursing home.
A Greenwood man who developed a plan to curb gun violence is hoping local leaders will adopt and implement it.
Whether he was walking the halls of Congress or kicking up his heels on the dance floor, Hugh Warren III had a certain sparkle about him, a charisma of optimism and good manners that made people enjoy being in his presence.
The Rev. Randy Westbrook says church was important to his family when he was growing up, but he didn’t plan to be a preacher.
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A Greenwood firefighter has died following a single-vehicle accident.
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Leflore County’s death count from COVID-19 is more than halfway to the century mark.
Pulling in a U-Haul filled with another delivery of fireworks, David Elmore, owner of the Black Cat tent off U.S. 82, said business is booming.
Greenwood’s Municipal Court tried 115 cases concerning COVID-19 violations from May 6 through June 17, ultimately generating more than $31,000 in fines and court costs.
A Greenwood Leflore Hospital nurse is urging people to take precautions over the Fourth of July weekend in order to limit the spread of COVID-19.
Hugh Anslum Warren III, a former longtime Greenwood agriculture and community leader, died Thursday, July 2, 2020, at Golden Age nursing home.
The Leflore County chapter of Mission Mississippi is planning a prayer gathering Saturday that the Rev. Terry Williams hopes will be a display of hope and love.
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Two women are claiming a Greenwood man has been wrongfully charged with attempted murder and say they can attest to his whereabouts elsewhere at the time the alleged crime occurred.
After 10 years, the last of almost 65 vintage stoplights went up Wednesday morning at the corner of Carrollton Avenue and Avenue G in Greenwood.
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JACKSON — Mississippi officials held a ceremony Wednesday to retire the former state flag and send it to a history museum, a day after Republican Gov. Tate Reeves signed a law removing official status from the last state banner in the U.S. that included the Confederate battle emblem.
The Greenwood Leflore Consolidated School District officially opened land bidding for available 16th Section land areas Wednesday.
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JACKSON — With a stroke of the governor’s pen, Mississippi is retiring the last state flag in the U.S. with the Confederate battle emblem — a symbol that’s widely condemned as racist.
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Leflore County’s death count from COVID-19 is now up to 49 with the addition of another resident of a long-term care facility.
Some inmates who pick up trash for the Greenwood Public Works Department have tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
JACKSON — Netflix on Tuesday announced a $10 million investment in a Mississippi-based credit union to build economic opportunities in Black communities in the Deep South.
The Greenwood Leflore Consolidated School District will open the 16th Section land bidding process Wednesday for hunting and fishing land use.
A $20,000 grant was presented to the Greenwood-Leflore-Carroll Economic Development Foundation Tuesday to help fund a survey of the surrounding areas in the Greenwood-Leflore Airport industrial park to make sure it is sustainable for further development.
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JACKSON — The Mississippi flag is fading from public display in many places, even before the governor signs a bill that will retire the last state banner in the U.S. that includes the Confederate battle emblem.
Two Greenwood legislators said Monday they are happy with the passage of legislation to remove the Confederate battle emblem from the state’s flag.
The Greenwood-Leflore County Chamber of Commerce’s Young Emerging Leaders of Leflore (YELL) program is looking for applicants for this fall.
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