SUSAN MONTGOMERY | The Greenwood Commonwealth

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Leo Murphree

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Murphree suggests new time capsule
By SUSAN MONTGOMERY - Staff Writer
Tue,06/08/21-2:00AM , 978 Reads
That’s a good idea, the Leflore County Board of Supervisors seemed to think when Leo Murphree asked the board to consider sponsoring a new time capsule that would engage people today in saving items representative of current times for future generations to unearth.
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Dr. Mary Brown, superintendent of the Greenwood Leflore Consolidated School District, speaks to the Greenwood Rotary Club in March. The district's board voted Monday not to extend Brown's contract beyond the 2021-2022 school year.

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School board votes not to extend Brown's contract
By SUSAN MONTGOMERY - Staff Writer
Mon,06/07/21-4:05PM , 4940 Reads
The Greenwood Leflore Consolidated School Board voted Monday against extending the contract of Dr. Mary Brown, superintendent, beyond the end of the 2021-2022 school year.
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Among summer campers and their teachers at ArtPlace Mississippi this week are, from the left at the front, David Howard, Chip Powers, John Day Stewart, Sam Boggan, Mamie Patridge and Annie Morgan Smith. At the rear from the left are Yolande van Heerden, Townes Hackelman, McKenzie Edwards, Hensley Hardy, Phoenix Smith, Jessica Payne, Ashlyn Upchurch and Aaleyiah Evans. (By Susan Montgomery)

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ArtPlace busy this summer with activities for kids, adults
By SUSAN MONTGOMERY - Staff Writer
Sat,06/05/21-2:00AM , 1827 Reads
Summer’s the season for having fun, and that’s exactly what both adults and children are doing these days in connection with ArtPlace Mississippi.
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Bill Luckett, left, sits with Walker Sturdivant of Greenwood, who farms at Due West Plantation in Glendora, on Thursday during a ceremony that included the placement of a memorial to fictional song character Billy Joe McAllister. (By Susan Montgomery)

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Billy Joe gets his day: June Bugs dedicate memorial to Bobbie Gentry song character
By SUSAN MONTGOMERY - Staff Writer
Fri,06/04/21-2:00AM , 2035 Reads
Billy Joe McAllister, the legendary fictional youth from former Greenwoodian Bobbie Gentry’s song “Ode to Billy Joe,” now has a grave-like memorial at Greenwood’s Tallahatchie Flats, compliments of the June Bugs.
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