Lafayette County News

The city of Oxford has more than $47 million in capital projects coming up and figuring out how to fund those projects can take some thought and planning.

I have always been interested in the names for small towns and communities. Some simply come from the founders surnames, and are usually rather conventional - the name, with ville or berg/burg/burgh or town/city attached.

The Ford Center for the Performing Arts was another major civic enrichment success that followed Oxford's Vision 2020 long-range plan.

William Faulkner, photographed in Oxford by Martin J. Dain, in the 1960s. A traveling exhibit of Dain's images of the author is at the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library until June 22.

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE - Approaching William Faulkner's works can be daunting for first-timers. As Oxford prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Faulkner's death, scholars and fans offer their suggestions for where to begin.

The prosecution in the trial of Christopher Lee Baxter rested its case Thursday, after finishing with its witnesses and playing a taped interview of Baxter the morning after Sheriff Garry Welford was killed.

Janet and Ramon Barreto may still be long gone from prosecution in Union County, but they're back within the cover of Oxford novelist Ace Atkins' new book.

If, as an editorial published August 24, 2010 in this space opined, "Political wars are won during the redistricting process," Panola County should be a sore loser over the Senate redistricting plan that the legislature is approving as these words are written.

Panola County will be split into three Senate districts under a redistricting plan Senators approved Wednesday and House members approved late Thursday.

OXFORD TOWN - " YAC's annual family picnic and membership drive, Taylorpalooza, cranks up this Saturday in the Plein Air Neighborhood in Taylor.

Janet and Ramon Barreto may still be long gone from prosecution in Union County, but they're back within the cover of Oxford novelist Ace Atkins' new book.

Two recent reports offer the latest evidence that Mississippi's economy is rebounding from the Great Recession and that Lafayette County's jobless rate is falling.