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“Our members are not involved”: Ole Miss Alpha Phi says students making monkey noises in viral video were misidentified as sorority members

The University of Mississippi campus in Oxford, Mississippi [Representational Image] - Source: Getty The Iota Omega chapter of Alpha Phi sorority at the University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, has addressed the viral clip showing individuals making monkey noises outside a Black woman’s apartment. The sorority distanced itself from the controversy, stating that none of its members were involved, contrary to claims circulating online. Recently, TikTok user and Ole Miss student Jakiyra Metcalf (@jakiyrametcalf_) posted Ring camera footage showing three women walking past her apartment....

Oxford, MS · 2d

Daily Mississippian

Meet Oxford’s editor of The Scout Guide

The Scout Guide is a collection of features from local businesses intended to showcase the culture of cities and regions where it is published. In Oxford, local editor Abbe Barfield wants to create a guide readers use every day to decide which businesses they will support. The franchise has distributed...

Oxford, MS · 21h

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Scobey, Yalobusha County: From Preston and Garner to a Mississippi Railroad Town

Appalachian Community Histories – Scobey, Yalobusha County: From Preston and Garner to a Mississippi Railroad Town. In the southwestern corner of Yalobusha County, Mississippi, the community of Scobey developed along a railroad that helped reshape the settlement patterns of northern Mississippi during the nineteenth century. Although its population never approached that of larger towns such as Grenada, Coffeeville, or Water Valley, Scobey became an important local connection between the agricultural countryside and the expanding transportation network that linked Mississippi to markets across the South.

Yalobusha County, MS · 4d

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Pope, Panola County: Railroads, Cotton, Churches, and the Schools of a Mississippi Town

Appalachian Community Histories – Pope, Panola County: Railroads, Cotton, Churches, and the Schools of a Mississippi Town. In the southern portion of Panola County, Mississippi, the small community of Pope developed beside a railroad that helped transform the surrounding countryside during the nineteenth century. What began as a settlement associated with railroad construction and agricultural land gradually became an incorporated municipality with churches, schools, merchants, mills, and a cotton trade that connected local farmers to markets beyond northern Mississippi. Although Pope never grew into a large commercial center, its history provides an important example of how transportation, agriculture, religion, education, and community organizations shaped the development of rural towns throughout the region.

Panola County, MS · 1d

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Locke Station, Panola County: Rural Roads, Cotton Fields, and a Mississippi Delta Community

Appalachian Community Histories – Locke Station, Panola County: Rural Roads, Cotton Fields, and a Mississippi Delta Community. In the western countryside of Panola County, Mississippi, near the boundary with neighboring Quitman County, lies a rural community known as Locke Station. Unlike the larger towns of Batesville, Sardis, and Marks, Locke Station has never developed into a prominent commercial center, yet its name has survived through government maps, transportation records, and other official documents that preserve the geography of northwestern Mississippi.

Panola County, MS · 1d

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Terza, Panola County: A Methodist Church, a Rural Post Office, and the Lester Family

Appalachian Community Histories – Terza, Panola County: A Methodist Church, a Rural Post Office, and the Lester Family. Along Terza Road in Panola County, Mississippi, between the communities of Batesville and Sardis, lies a rural settlement whose history can easily be overlooked. Terza never developed into one of the county’s principal towns, and surviving historical accounts offer little indication that it possessed the commercial importance of its larger neighbors. Nevertheless, the community’s name appears in nineteenth-century postal records, early Mississippi historical publications, Methodist church histories, and cemetery records that reveal a settlement with roots extending back to the antebellum period.

Panola County, MS · 1d

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Tishomingo County Christmas Parades Set for Dec. 4-7

Tishomingo County Christmas parades fill the first weekend of December this year. Iuka, Tishomingo, Belmont and Burnsville each have a parade on the official county tourism calendar between Dec. 4 and Dec. 7. Burnsville is also adding something new: its first Christmas on Ice celebration, with an ice skating rink next to City Hall.

Tishomingo County, MS · 3d

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Tishomingo Christmas Bazaar Set for Nov. 28 at Cedar Creek

Holiday shoppers in Northeast Mississippi have another stop to add to the calendar. The Tishomingo Christmas bazaar at Cedar Creek Ridge Farms is set for Saturday, Nov. 28, 2026, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., when the rural Tishomingo County event venue opens its doors to vendors selling handmade arts and crafts, gift baskets and one-of-a-kind gifts.

Tishomingo, MS · 2d

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Longtown, Panola County: From an Incorporated Town to a Rural Mississippi Community

Appalachian Community Histories – Longtown, Panola County: From an Incorporated Town to a Rural Mississippi Community. In the northwestern countryside of Panola County, Mississippi, lies Longtown, a rural community whose history reaches back to the nineteenth century. Although it never developed into a major commercial center, Longtown once possessed something that many small settlements never obtained: an official municipal charter granted by the Mississippi Legislature. It also maintained a post office, supported churches and educational institutions, and became home to a benevolent society whose members corresponded directly with the governor of Mississippi.

Panola County, MS · 1d

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Tocowa, Panola County: Mineral Springs, a Historic Hotel, and a Forgotten Mississippi Resort Town

Appalachian Community Histories – Tocowa, Panola County: Mineral Springs, a Historic Hotel, and a Forgotten Mississippi Resort Town. In the wooded hills of southwestern Panola County, Mississippi, where the rolling bluffs descend toward the lowlands of the Mississippi Delta, there once stood a small town known for its mineral springs, country hotel, and reputation as a place of healing. The community was called Tocowa, although historical records also refer to the surrounding area as Tocowa Springs or Tocawa Springs Village. During the nineteenth century, its natural spring attracted visitors who believed that the water possessed medicinal properties, while the surrounding settlement developed into a small center of rural commerce, education, and community life.

Panola County, MS · 1d

The Panolian

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Batesville JH Chorus to join Oxford chorus for Winter Concert

The Batesville Junior High Chorus will join the Oxford Civic Chorus for its annual Winter Concert on Dec. 12, giving local students an opportunity to share the stage with more […]

Oxford, MS · 1d

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Glenville, Panola County: From the 1871 Post Office to the Fiddle Music of Bob Pratcher

Appalachian Community Histories – Glenville, Panola County: From the 1871 Post Office to the Fiddle Music of Bob Pratcher. In the countryside of northern Panola County, Mississippi, near Mississippi Highway 310 and southwest of Tyro, lies the small community of Glenville. Unlike the larger towns of Sardis, Como, and Batesville, Glenville never developed into a major commercial or railroad center, but its name survives in nineteenth-century postal directories, historical maps, cemetery records, and the musical history of northern Mississippi. Its story reflects the experiences of rural settlements whose importance rested less on their size than on the farms, churches, families, and everyday institutions that connected the surrounding countryside.

Panola County, MS · 1d

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Horatio, Panola County: From a Rural Post Office to a Forgotten Mississippi Town

Appalachian Community Histories – Horatio, Panola County: From a Rural Post Office to a Forgotten Mississippi Town. In the countryside west of Sardis, Mississippi, once stood a small community known as Horatio, a place whose name has largely disappeared from modern maps but whose history survives through scattered postal records, early twentieth-century directories, and references to one of Panola County’s historic churches. Unlike the larger communities of Sardis, Batesville, and Como, Horatio never became a major commercial center, and its surviving documentation offers only fragments of the lives and institutions that once defined it.

Panola County, MS · 1d

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Pleasant Grove, Panola County: From a Rural Post Office to Schools, Churches, Baseball, and the Blues

Appalachian Community Histories – Pleasant Grove, Panola County: From a Rural Post Office to Schools, Churches, Baseball, and the Blues. Along Mississippi Highway 315, approximately ten miles west of Sardis, lies Pleasant Grove, a rural community whose history reflects the agricultural traditions, religious institutions, educational developments, and changing social conditions of northern Mississippi. Although Pleasant Grove never developed into a large incorporated town, its churches, stores, post office, school, and surrounding farms once provided important connections for families living in the western portion of Panola County.

Panola County, MS · 1d

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Sardis, Panola County: Railroads, Historic Courthouses, Sardis Dam, and Civil Rights

Appalachian Community Histories – Sardis, Panola County: Railroads, Historic Courthouses, Sardis Dam, and Civil Rights. In the northern reaches of Mississippi, where the rolling hills of Panola County give way to the fertile lands of the Mississippi Delta, the town of Sardis developed from a small nineteenth-century settlement into an important center of government, commerce, transportation, and architectural history. Its streets preserve reminders of a time when railroads determined the fortunes of neighboring communities, county courthouses represented political influence, and cotton, timber, and agriculture supported much of the regional economy.

Panola County, MS · 1d

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Photo Gallery: Blessing of the Safe Haven Baby Box at Neshoba General

Neshoba General Hospital in Philadelphia officially unveiled its new Safe Haven Baby Box during a blessing ceremony held Monday, November 9. The box is the 13th installed in Mississippi and the 491st nationwide, providing parents in crisis with a safe, anonymous, and legal way to surrender an infant. Funding for the installation was raised by the Neshoba County Republican Women.

Philadelphia, MS · 22h

Festivaltopia

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From Nowhere to Iconic: 10 Music Legends Who Started in Tiny Towns

Elvis Presley – Tupelo, Mississippi Elvis Presley – Tupelo, Mississippi (image credits: wikimedia) Before he was known worldwide as the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Elvis Presley’s journey began in Tupelo, Mississippi. With a population of just 7,500 in 1935, Tupelo was a small town with a limited horizon. Elvis spent his early years in ... Read more The post From Nowhere to Iconic: 10 Music Legends Who Started in Tiny Towns appeared first on Festivaltopia .

Tupelo, MS · 4d

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Lodi, Montgomery County: The Town That Helped Shape Winona

Appalachian Community Histories – Lodi, Montgomery County: The Town That Helped Shape Winona. In the eastern countryside of Montgomery County, Mississippi, the community of Lodi survives as a reminder of a time when the region’s towns were still taking shape, and the arrival of railroads could determine which settlements prospered and which gradually faded. Today, Lodi is an unincorporated community, but during the nineteenth century, it possessed the institutions of a recognized town, including a municipal government, a post office, and residents whose lives became connected to some of the most consequential events in Mississippi history. Its story includes the Civil War, Reconstruction, the development of neighboring Winona, and the agricultural economy that supported generations of families throughout the surrounding countryside.

Montgomery County, MS · 4d

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Winona, Montgomery County: Railroads, Cotton Mills, Fires, and Fannie Lou Hamer

Appalachian Community Histories – Winona, Montgomery County: Railroads, Cotton Mills, Fires, and Fannie Lou Hamer. In the rolling hills of north-central Mississippi, the city of Winona grew from a railroad settlement into one of the region’s important commercial and political centers. Long before automobiles and interstate highways reshaped travel across the state, trains brought merchants, farmers, laborers, and visitors through a town whose streets, hotels, and businesses developed around the railroad tracks. Its position between the Mississippi Delta and the eastern portion of the state helped establish Winona as a trading center, while its selection as the county seat of Montgomery County in 1871 gave the growing community an importance that extended beyond transportation.

Winona, MS · 4d

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Theme and registration details announced for 2026 Kosciusko Christmas Parade

The Kosciusko Attala Partnership has announced details and entry information for the 2026 Kosciusko Christmas Parade. This year’s parade will be held on Monday, Dec. 7 at 6:30 p.m., bringing holiday festivities to the Kosciusko Downtown Square. The theme for the 2026 parade is “A Down Home Christmas.”

Kosciusko, MS · 5d

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