Kosciusko News

Area artisans Beth Burton, Doris Hood Belk, Inez Dickerson, Ann Hughes, Carolyn Wilkerson, Offie Thomas Oakes, Jewette Battles, Rebecca Doty, Mery Barrow, Lavelle Boyette and Verniece Townsend under the direction of Ann Jordan came together to create painting of Kosciusko and Attala County scenes for the first Oprah Winfrey Boys & Girls Club ...

"We know how important this project is to the city and county," Richard Dean, an architect with Dean and Dean, said of the expansion of Montfort Jones Memorial Hospital.

The cities of Kosciusko and Lexington are two of the 27 communities around the state that will go walkin' down their Main Streets on Saturday, as they join together for the second annual "Let's Go Walkin' Down Main Street Mississippi" statewide event.

Bill Cullen spoke on behalf of Attala County's newest employer - Malibu Lighting - during the 74th annual meeting of the Kosciusko-Attala Development Corporation Thursday, Oct.

City attorney George Dorrill said he would be glad to help native Tommy Davis with obtaining information about a wreck he had in January 2007.

THE SWEET GUM is certainly not my favorite tree. However, it does retain one attribute - it is faithful in brightening up the October landscape, especially on the Natchez Trace.

Oct. 22, 1959 B.B. Boyd, postmaster of McCool, was elected moderator of the Attala County Baptist Association in its final session at Ethel Baptist Church Friday afternoon Thirty-one Baptist Churches of Attala compose the group.

In the wake of Richard Manning resigning as Montfort Jones Memorial Hospital administrator, acting administrator James Thomas, who also serves as chief financial officer, said it's business as usual at the hospital.

Moments before the three suspects accused of killing her son and his friend were brought into Jackson Municipal Court on Thursday, Margaree Bowling began to cry.

Three men, including one found wounded at the scene, have been charged with capital murder in a double homicide Monday at a Jackson salon, police say, adding their motive likely was robbery.

The Attala County Supervisors granted economic development officials including Kosciusko Attala Development Corporation President Steve Zea and Steve Russell with the North Central Planning Commission to go after grant funding for a regional jail and an emergency command center that would house 911 operations and the central fire station.

On October 6, The Kosciusko Mayor and Board of Aldermen approved Mike Johnson to sell barbeque from his portable business, The Hog Trough, at Northside Shopping Center Tuesday through Friday.

The Kosciusko Attala Development Corporation will host the 74th Annual Meeting of the development organizations in Attala County.

Pink hair is spreading a message in Kosciusko this month. Angela Taylor, owner and stylist at Galira's Hair Studio on North Madison Street, said she wanted to educate and show support for breast cancer during the month of October.

The Kosciusko City School Board approved the change order to the classrooms at Kosciusko Lower Elementary School at the Monday night meeting.

Due to heavy rain, rivers across Mississippi are starting to flood. Here is the latest as of Mid day Tuesday, October 13th: The Big Black River at West is 21.5 feet.

A Vaiden woman was found not guilty of two counts of exploitation of a vulnerable adult Wednesday, Sept.

Barry Love, 23, of Kosciusko, will go to trial Feb. 1 for the November shooting at Hill Brothers Logging Shop on Highway 19 North, according to court documents.

Head Start body Start National Center for Physical Development and Outdoor Play in Reston, Va., has announced Central Mississippi Incorporated as one of 351 recipients of a $5,000 grant to improve the outdoor space at the Kosciusko Head Start Center of Kosciusko.

On Oct. 15, the school districts of Attala County and Kosciusko City Schools will host a CAREER/COLLEGE DAY for Juniors and Seniors at the Oprah Winfrey Boys and Girls Club in Kosciusko, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Students will be bused from their respective school sites to meet with local and statewide representatives from a variety of colleges, ...