The Newton County Appeal is calling on K-12 students attending Newton, Newton County, Union, Lake Sebastopol or Newton County Academy to submit their thoughts and writing during the school shutdown.
Story subjects include, but are not limited to fun home activities, tips and tricks to succeed in online classes, book reviews and more.
Decatur Women’s Progressive Club recently held the May meeting. Executive officers for 2020-2022 were installed by incoming MFWC State President Sherri Reid using Zoom and phone calls.
God made man body and soul. We were made to be spiritual creatures. God breathed life into man (Genesis 2), not just air into his lungs, but life into his soul. He made man to glorify him in body and soul, enjoying the blessedness of God in both, in knowledge and righteousness. Blessed be the Name of the Lord.
I talked with this young wife and mother recently and realized I needed to interview her for this column. Sharli Moulds Daigle was born October 15, 1984, in Conehatta, Mississippi, to Charles and Judy Jones Moulds. Born about five years later, her sister JoLyn is now married to Jared McElhenney and their children are Jack, 4, and Jordyn, 1.
Newton County Sheriff’s Department is investigation a shooting that sent one man to the hospital.
Sheriff Joedy Pennington said deputies responded to a shooting call on Roy Mann Road, east of Newton, around 4:30 p.m. May 5.
The New Women’s Residence Hall at East Central Community College in Decatur will now be known as Billy W. Stewart Hall following action taken by the college’s Board of Trustees at its regularly scheduled May meeting held by conference call May 12.
Newton County received a shipment of cloth masks from the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency to distribute to the community. Under executive order 1483, signed Tuesday by Gov.
Union’s Andy Ogletree is set up to play in his first professional golf tournament.
Ogletree, who recently graduated from Georgia Tech, will be playing in the Charles Schwab at Colonial in Dallas on June 8 through the 14th.
Ogletree received an invitation to the event after winning the U.S. Amateur Championship last year.
Sixteen years ago I held her for the first time.
Today, I’ll tell her happy birthday by phone, text, social media — everything but in person, because I’ll be working and she’s a state away, where she lives with her mom, step-dad and a couple of her siblings, plus a dog and a couple of cats.
Newton County was one of seven counties in east central Mississippi named as regions for high risk of coronavirus transmission in executive order 1483 signed Tuesday afternoon by Gov. Tate Reeves.
