Itta Bena News

ITTA BENA, Miss. -- Mississippi Valley State University President Donna Oliver has been unsuccessful in her quest for the president's job at West Virginia State University.

ITTA BENA, Miss. -- Mississippi Valley State University will open a recycling center on Friday at the Industrial Technology building on its Itta Bena campus.

Clyde Edgerton sent in the alert that Mississippi writer Lewis "Buddy" Nordan had died on April 13 -A too soon really, at the age of 72, from what The New York Times described as complications from pneumonia.

Former Water Valley head boys basketball and track coach Murray Dixon will be inducted into the Mississippi Valley State Athletics Hall of Fame Saturday in Itta Bena.

Po' Monkey'A A s Lounge --A A" located on a gravel road amid cotton fields, off Highway 61, in Mississippi -- is one of the last old-style juke joints standing in America.