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Sylvia Merz passed away. This is the full obituary where you can share condolences and memories. Published in the Record Eagle on 2023-10-29.

In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court declared racial segregation in schools unconstitutional. A new documentary explores what happened when one Mississippi community finally integrated its public schools in 1969.

Residents of South Bend file protests regarding the high property appraisals received this year.

9 & 10 News Voters said yes to one ballot proposal, and no to the other. May 6, 2021 “Taxpayers supported the operating millage for Leland Public School which allows us to keep our doors open,” said Leland School Board President Bill Robinson. Voters passed the operating millage for the Leland School – it will raise over $4 million for the school’s operating expenses. Leland Public School Superintendent Stephanie Long said, “The millage is for our operating expense, it’s what required of us to collect from taxpayers to receive our state aid.” But voters said no to a smaller re...

Beverlyn Lomax Pepper Beverlyn Lomax Pepper had four great loves: faith, family, friends and flowers. On April 2, 2021, surrounded and sustained by all four, she left this world. She left it immeasurably better for having inhabited it. Beverlyn was born in the Mississippi Delta town of Greenwood, Mississippi, to Clifton Lamar Lomax and DeLeslyn Morgan Lomax. The genesis of her unusual name (“Beverlyn,” with an “n”) was her mother’s unusual name—DeLeslyn. They shared the “n.” (Later, they would share a passion for their profession—teaching elementar...