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7 Funny Things Southerners Say About Cold Weather

Judging the weather based on numerical temperatures is boring. Besides, if it’s 35 or 40 degrees, who can tell the difference? Southerners love a...

Seventh Annual Fiber Arts Festival Returns To Oxford With Three-Day Event

The Seventh Annual Fiber Arts Festival returns to Oxford this weekend with a three-day event that offers fun for the whole family. The festival...

Mississippi Excellence In Teaching Program: Growing Educational Leaders

The Mississippi Excellence in Teaching Program (METP) offers an honors college style experience for students in the School of Education. These students, both from the...

Oxford Stories: Overuse Of Antibiotics Worries Academic And Professional Pharmacists

Whether it’s for sniffles, sneezes, cough, or cold, everyone goes to the doctor at some point in their lives, and many are treated with...

Mississippi Quote of the Day

January 25, 2017 “I don’t think in the past. I don’t think in the future. You grasp the moment.”--- Eli Manning "The Mississippi Book of...

Cleveland: On The Change Of Professional Football

So much about professional football has changed and evolved since this writer first began to watch in the late 1950s and early 1960s. For one...

VIDEO: Jay Hughes On The Potential Impact Of The Proposed Educational Funding Revamp

TAX SHIFT AHEAD - EXIT NOW! Lawmakers are in session in Jackson. Local school districts, property owners, superintendents and supervisors beware! The legislature is trying...

Oxford Police Arrest Man On 'Possession Of A Weapon By A Felon' Charges

On Monday night, January 23, the Oxford Police Department arrested Anthony Bailey, 26, of Wesson, Mississippi, for possession of a weapon by a felon. On...

The Bodyguard, Starring Soul Diva Deborah Cox, Plays Memphis Orpheum Theatre January 24 – 29

The stage musical adaptation of the hit film "The Bodyguard" will play at Memphis’ Orpheum Theatre January 24 – 29. It stars Grammy-nominated and...

Regional Artists’ Works To Be Featured In Northwest February Exhibition

Northwest Mississippi Community College’s February art exhibition, “Tangled in Art,” which is sponsored by Sycamore Arts, will feature the works of regional artists. “Sycamore Arts...

Lisa Palmer Renovates Oxford Bridal Building, Brings SummerHouse Furnishings To The Square

SummerHouse Furniture is the newest addition to the Historic Oxford Square and has been operating since November 2016 in the former Oxford Bridal building....