Mid-morning sleet, accumulating on bridges and roadways, in some areas meant an early end to the school day today.
All schools in Lowndes and Oktibbeha counties will be closed by 1 p.m.
Columbus Municipal School District will release its elementary school students at 11:30 this morning, with middle school and high school students to be released at 12:15 p.m. All Lowndes County public schools will release their students at 11:30 a.m.
Elementary school students in the Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District are to be released at 12:20 p.m. while middle school and high schools students to be released at 1:10 p.m. All after-school activities in Starkville have been canceled.
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