JACKSON – The Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) will now be keeping an active list of local COVID-19 testing sites throughout the state.
In a special called meeting last Tuesday the Union Board of Aldermen moved forward with a plan to lockdown city properties after a part-time police officer tested positive for Covid-19.
Mayor Wayne Welch said he learned the officer had tested positive the previous Sunday and discussed what needed to happen with his staff.
Editor's note: A previous version of this story listed Bralynn's last name incorrectly. We apologize for the error and are happy to set the record straight.
Bralynn Newell first learned about sewing from her grandmother, Jeanette Robinson. The two worked together using her grandmother’s sewing machine.
His 22nd birthday won’t exactly be what Union’s Andy Ogletree had envisioned.
Instead of playing with Tiger Woods in the second round of The Masters, Ogletree made his way back home to Union.
March was National Athletic Training Month but it didn’t go exactly like some local athletic trainers thought it would.
Most local high school sports teams played their last games at the beginning of spring break before suspending activities until April 17. That left athletic trainers without subjects to work on.
Matthew Riley of Brandon and Jasmine McDonald of Union were selected Mr. and Miss East Central Community College for the 2019-20 school year by a recent vote of the student body.
This Week
Special Blood Drive
for Norman Snowden
Newton Fire and Rescue help a resident Thursday retrieve his car from a ditch along Hwy 80 in Newton. First responders on scene reported the driver had ducked into Newton Discout Tobacco and forgot to enage the parking break. The vehicle rolled through the parking lot, across the highway and into the ditch.
Andie Cleveland has been named STAR Student for the 2019-2020 school year by the Mississippi Economic Council (MEC) M. B.
Covid-19 has reminded us that we do not have everything under control, and that this is a fallen world. The Lord is sovereign over all, but we have to be careful about inferring from providential calamity a specific cause or culpable group.
