Dick Mahoney: Road trip to Cooperstown event creates baseball memories
Each year since 1989 prior to the induction ceremony for that year’s Hall of Fame inductees, a three-day event entitled “The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture” is held at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. The event attracts many baseball enthusiasts.
Our view: Tuesday’s productive council discussion was reassuring
Tuesday’s Columbus City Council meeting gave us a glimpse about how city government was intended to work.
Mississippi State’s Sydney Steely makes first trip to outdoor track nationals
Editor’s note: This story on Sydney Steely is Part 4 of a four-part series on Mississippi State track and field athletes competing in NCAA outdoor
Guns, ammo, body armor stolen from police vehicle
Weapons and gear were stolen from a city-owned police vehicle this week, according to Police Chief Fred Shelton.
Bobby Harrison: Redistricting gives Republicans chance to increase legislative super majorities
Republicans have a reasonable chance of increasing their much ballyhooed super majorities, at least in the Mississippi House, in the 2023 elections based on the redrawing of the legislative districts earlier this year.
Ask Rufus: The Coming of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Living on Southside Columbus, I am sometimes awakened around 2 a.m. by the moanful whistle of a passing train. At first I often think it might be my good friend Brandon Smith “highballing“ through town (at about 10 mph), but then my thoughts always drift to the story those train tracks have to tell. The history of the construction of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad through Lowndes County is an interesting one.
Mississippi poet laureate pledges to increase accessibility to poetry
Award-winning author and Mississippi State English Professor Catherine Pierce is dedicating her work as the state’s current poet laureate to helping all Mississippians gain access to poetry in a meaningful way.
Slimantics: From Aunt Tatie to Andrew and, hopefully, far beyond
My father’s baby sister, affectionately known as “Tatie” was born in 1930.
$10,000 grant provides ATVs, equipment for 4-H
A recent grant award is helping provide all-terrain vehicle safety training to Mississippi 4-H’ers. The Mississippi State University Extension Service 4-H ATV Safety Program recently received
Bobby Hairrison: Are politicians ‘whistling past the graveyard’ with tax cut proposals while still phasing in past cuts?
As Mississippi’s political leadership bickers about whether to pass the House tax cut plan or the more modest Senate plan or the more outlandish plan of Gov. Tate Reeves, it might be worth remembering that the state is not even halfway into enacting the state’s largest tax reduction plan in history.
Mississippi State baseball avoids sweep with beatdown of No. 24 Long Beach State
STARKVILLE — The hits kept coming, the line kept moving, and things looked quite a bit more familiar Sunday at Dudy Noble Field. Rendered almost
Our View: Teachers need our help for classroom supplies
Imagine telling our police officers they would have to provide their own patrol cars or telling firefighters they would have to buy their own fire hoses. Would we ever ask Air Force pilots to provide their own planes or soldiers to buy their own bullets?
Partial to Home: Near misses
On a recent weekday morning, driving north on Seventh Street, I sped up as I approached Main Street. The usual interminably red stoplight at that intersection was green.
Jackets bounce back from loss to sting Mavericks
STARKVILLE — After a loss against Oxford last week, the Starkville High School football team was looking to rebound in a big way. The Yellow
Possumhaw: Season of sights and sounds
Along with the season, the landscape in the Prairie changes. Beyond the lake dam the field is a cover of white like a blanket. Some call it a southern snow, but we know it as a cotton field. It’s not unusual to see cars pull over and a family tumbling out for photographs. No doubt the picture will be sent to others or find itself on a Christmas card.
Volleyball semifinalists Cavaliers, Warriors know each other well
When Caledonia High School volleyball players take the floor tonight in the MHSAA Class 4A semifinals, they will see a very familiar foe on the
Steve Chapman: The new child credit is good for kids and everyone else
The United States is one of the richest societies on earth — but one with more than its share of poverty. While American capitalism has done wonders to raise living standards for the great majority of people, it has left millions out of this prosperity.
From Day 1, Maddy Anderson has excelled in goal for Mississippi State soccer
The sophomore goalkeeper is one of the best at her position in the country, according to teammates and coaches.
NFL Roundup: Chiefs rally to squeak past Browns
Patrick Mahomes threw for 337 yards and three touchdowns while running for another score, and the Kansas City Chiefs came back from a dismal first
MLB Roundup: Scherzer near-perfect in milestone game for Dodgers
Max Scherzer got his 3,000th career strikeout and took a perfect game into the eighth inning as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Diego