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Museum exhibit to tell story of UM janitor and his art
By TIM KALICH - Editor
Thu,01/30/25-2:00AM , 1398 Reads
Thirteen years before James Meredith integrated the University of Mississippi, an African American janitor at the school in Oxford was listening in on art lectures from a nearby broom closet.
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Shad White doesn’t do boring
By TIM KALICH - Editor
Sat,01/25/25-2:00AM , 2096 Reads 21,994 Statewide
I don’t usually watch state budget hearings. They are mostly dry, boring affairs that are more easily digested in a few paragraphs from a news story the following day.
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Hospital to seek ‘critical access lite’ designation
By TIM KALICH - Editor
Wed,01/22/25-2:00AM , 1414 Reads
As it continues to wait on whether the federal government will designate it as a critical access hospital, Greenwood Leflore Hospital is pursuing an alternate route to additional Medicare funding.
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Dr. Margie Pulley, right, takes notes at the beginning of Tuesday’s meeting of the Greenwood Leflore Hospital Board. Accompanying her is one of her sons, Kelvin Pulley. Margie Pulley later addressed the hospital board behind closed doors, a possible violation by the hospital board of Mississippi’s Open Meetings Act. (By Tim Kalich, Copyright 2025 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.)

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Dr. Pulley speaks to hospital board behind closed doors
By TIM KALICH - Editor
Wed,01/22/25-2:00AM , 2737 Reads
A veteran school administrator who has been considered for a spot on the Greenwood Leflore Hospital Board addressed that body behind closed doors Tuesday.
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