Education: Forbes ranks MSU only SEC school in Top 50 ‘America’s Best Large Employers’ list
Mississippi State University is taking care of what matters—and that includes its people.
Education: Special permit first step for MSU research into drone pesticide application
Mississippi State researchers are helping pave the way toward safe, effective pesticide application methods using uncrewed aerial vehicles, or UAVs.
Education: MSU students receive prestigious Alabama Feed and Grain Association Scholarships
Seven Mississippi State students are receiving prestigious Alabama Feed and Grain Association Scholarships.
Starkville Utilities wants county support for wastewater treatment plant
Starkville Utilities is asking Oktibbeha County to consider chipping in financial support for its wastewater treatment facility.
Community Profile: For Fuller, public education’s glory days are now
It’s all too easy to fall into doom-and-gloom when talking about education.
Revamped camera ordinance would affect 50 businesses
Starkville’s proposed camera ordinance will meet its fate Tuesday.
Paving heralds near-end to downtown sewer project
For nearly 10 months, detour and closure signs have been a common sight in downtown Starkville.
‘We came back losers, but we really came back winners’
It has been 61 years since Mississippi State’s men’s basketball team defied an unwritten rule and snuck out of the state to play against a racially integrated Loyola-Chicago team in the 1963 NCAA Tournament, and 11 years since Robbie Coblentz directed and co-wrote a short documentary to commemorate the occasion.
Education: Jacket teachers receive TVA STEM grant awards to enhance classroom technology projects
Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District teachers received two TVA STEM Classroom Grants, sponsored by the Tennessee Valley Authority in partnership with Bicentennial Volunteers Incorporated.
Education: Emma Schultz selected as fellow of regional fish and wildlife organization
Emma Schultz of Starkville was named a Minorities in Natural Resources Conservation Fellow during the 77th annual Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies conference.
Is cryptocurrency a smart, viable investment?
During Monday’s Starkville Rotary Club meeting, Bob Daniels, before introducing speaker Brian Blank, asked the assembly a question.
“How many, raise your hands, own a Bitcoin?” he asked.
Senate bill proposes relocation of MSMS to MSU
Two bills proposed in the state Senate last week could deeply impact Mississippi University for Women.
Did National Guard drill get a man fired from Starkville Walmart?
An Oktibbeha County man is suing Walmart in federal court after he alleges it fired him for missing work due to National Guard training.
Majority of supes open to exploring OCH sale or lease
With two new members in place on the county board of supervisors, the appetite to again explore privatizing OCH Regional Medical Center is growing.
Man charged with robbing vape store at gunpoint
A Starkville man is in custody after allegedly robbing a store at gunpoint Wednesday night.
Supervisors seeking ways to buy new road equipment
Oktibbeha County Road Manager Victor Collins has a long list of equipment purchases he wants to keep up with the county’s road maintenance.
Miskelly Furniture eyeing old Vowell’s spot
All that’s apparently keeping Miskelly Furniture from opening a location in the old Vowell’s Marketplace is whether the city and county will abate a developer’s property taxes.
Education: 10th anniversary celebration of MSU’s ‘Writer-In-Residence’ program heralds award-winning poet, playwright
International award-winning poet, playwright and author Kwame Dawes brings literary depth and insight to Mississippi State as writer-in-residence, an annual program hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences’ Institute for the Humanities and the Department of English.
Education: Rotary Youth Leadership Awards of Central Mississippi honors four area students
The Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) is a personal and leadership development program for high school students with a drive to have a positive impact on their communities.
Community Profile: Asphalt, drainage and all that jazz
In another life, Cody Burnett’s career might have been in music.