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Greenville Officials Explain Trash Pick-Up Delay
GREENVILLE, Miss.–If you live in Greenville and your trash is piling up, one of the main reasons is the age of the city’s trash trucks and their propensity to break down often. “Everybody knows that the lifespan of those trash trucks should be between three and five years...
COSL announces tax auction for regional counties: Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Cleveland, Desha, Drew, Lincoln
LITTLE ROCK, Ark – Commissioner of State Lands Tommy Land announced that his office will auction tax-delinquent parcels located in Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Cleveland, Desha, Drew and Lincoln Counties on July 23. The regional auction begins at 10 a.m. and will be held at the UA Monticello Fine Arts...
Mississippi Arts: “Lanterns on the Levee” original manuscript donated to MDAH
This article first appeared on the Magnolia Tribune. The bestseller bridges the interval between the semi feudal South of the 1800s and the anxious South of the early 1940s. William Alexander Percy, born in 1885 in Greenville, Mississippi, was a Harvard Law School graduate, poet, and owner of Trail Lake Planting Company. His estate has donated the original handwritten manuscript of Percy’s 1941 autobiography and bestseller, Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter’s Son, to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH).
Indianola Authorities Discuss Improving Air-Conditioning System in County Jail
INDIANOLA, Miss.–The Sunflower County Jail is housing inmates with a rickety, rusty, 30-year-old air conditioning system that is failing and works only part-time. That could be a liability for the county and the Board of Supervisors is trying to decide on a long-term fix. “Under federal standards those inmates...
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