Possumhaw: Down by the lily pond

About a month ago when the temperatures were rising, I started pruning shrubs, flowers, and small hanging tree limbs.

Thom Caraccio: Ghosts of S.D. Lee

Often you will get a raised eyebrow when someone catches you talking about your high school time and with a smirk they’ll start singing “Glory Days.”

Sid Salter: After a 50-year legal logjam, coast killer faces execution

In a family crypt in the storied and elaborate St. Louis Cemetery No. 3 in New Orleans, the remains of murder victim Edwina de Gruy Marter rest alongside those of her parents, Edwin Joseph Dufouchar de Gruy and Emelie Carrie “Tootsie” Melancon de Gruy, and her older sister, Mary Agnes “Myrn” de Gruy.

Jiben Roy: War is not a solution, part 2

On September 9, 2013, I wrote an opinion column in The Dispatch that war is not a solution. At that time President Obama was in power, and Syria had a civil war. The U.S. government was thinking of striking Syria, because the Asad government used sarin gas on protestors and opposition parties.

Slimantics: Robotaxis beware: NYC eats hesitation for breakfast

Tesla introduced its robotaxis – which are already operated by ride-sharing companies like Uber and Waymo – on Sunday in Austin, Texas. Although it is not the first to offer autonomous cabs, anything Tesla does for the first time seems to attract enormous attention.

Possumhaw: A good soaking rain

There are many good things about rain. The cleansing of the earth takes place, flowers and plants are watered, during dry times crops are critically in need of water. Water replenishes our water sources; it cleans the air, cools the temperature.

Thom Caraccio: Mission to Miami at Flipper’s house

More stories from the motion picture set.

The second half of filming when we were shooting the Sean Connery movie “Just Cause” was in North Miami, working out of Greenwich Studios.

Sid Salter: Mississippi was once the scene 62 years ago of a federalized National Guard at Ole Miss

The political and legal standoff between President Donald Trump and California Gov. Gavin Newsom is not the first time a U.S. president has federalized a state’s National Guard command.

Possumhaw: Ducks in a row

Just outside the kitchen window were two black-bellied whistling ducks standing with their long legs and necks on top of the wood duck box at the side of the little lake

Thom Caraccio: Country boy/City man

Many of you who read The Dispatch have had similar stories, or are living them even now.

Sid Salter: SNAP cuts in GOP bill will exacerbate state’s rural hunger and ‘food desert’ problems

During Republican Gov. Tate Reeves’ time in the Governor’s Mansion, Mississippi has raised the economic development curtain on over $32 billion in new private sector investment. Much of that growth is in modern, high-tech fields that promise more and better jobs in the future.

Possumhaw: A matter of time

I got my first job that paid money at the age of 14. The Stork and Tot Shop wanted a helper during the lunch hours. I begged Momma to call them and get me the job.

Local Voices: District attorney: Education funding cuts can be difference in life and death

With graduation season upon us, I can’t help but be proud of the next generation of leaders. Each cap and gown represents not just an achievement, but a hope for the future and for a better Mississippi.

Local Voices: More Franklin memories

On Friday, May 30, Franklin Academy had its last day of classes after a 204 year history. It was the first free public school in the state of Mississippi. Pages 4A and 5A in today’s paper feature a selection of memories from former students and teachers. Due to space limitations, we were not able to run all of the submitted memories on those pages. Here is a selection of other memories.

Thom Caraccio: I wanna be an intimacy coordinator, Part Two

The movie business is a complex machine.

George Hazard: Hymn to Victory: Reflecting on WWII’s end 80 years later

On May 8, 1945, 80 years ago, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower announced the German surrender that ended World War II in Europe. Five days later, on May 13, the British Broadcasting Corporation presented “Hymn to Victory” by British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958).

Sid Salter: Bo Robinson, appointed to PSC after jarring corruption scandals, dies at age 90

After a season of unprecedented corruption involving elected Mississippi Public Service Commissioners in the late 1980s, then-Democratic Mississippi Governor Ray Mabus faced the task of appointing a successor in 1989 to fill the unexpired term of Northern District Commissioner D.W. Snyder of Eupora, following his trial and conviction on federal charges of extortion, filing false tax returns, bribery, and conspiracy.