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It is with profound sadness and also joy that we share the passing of our Mother, Dorothy (Dot) McElroy Harrell. Our mother passed just days before her 99th birthday. She

Before Erin and Ben Napier moved to Laurel, downtown was dead. Now, stores have opened, unemployment is down and property values are up.

As the hot-pink stretch Hummer winds through the streets of Laurel, Miss., the tour guide inside points out notable homes. “Ben built a swing out of whiskey…

Pat Fitzpatrick was the kind of dad who didn’t get upset when one of his kids called home after a fender bender car accident.

To the Editor: There have been two ladies that have been on my mind quite a bit over the last few months. Now yes, of course I could do some

HICKORY FLAT • Flat Rock Baptist Church, located on Highway 2 in rural Benton County, is a stately country church.

Braxton’s to move clockworks upstairs, fill old space with new enterprise

Heather Lake makes coffee for unhoused people who congregate at Seminary Park and provides them with other necessities like socks and gloves.

New artspace shows include an animated man taking hammers to his hat, stainless steel abstracts, and a literary-meets-visual interpretation of Marie Laveau.

You can never go home again, or so conventional wisdom tells us. The saying – adapted from Thomas Wolfe’s “You Can’t Go Home Again” – warns us to beware of nostalgia. Doing so can lead to disappointment akin to meeting your heroes or – worse still – sacrificing progress at the altar of a romanticized past. Nostalgia and even a bit of surrealism has been plentiful as I’ve returned to Tupelo, where I was born, remembering growing up here and in Pontoto...