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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...
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Chamber of Commerce Loans Its Parking Lot to Nonprofits for Football Season

By Talbert Toole Lifestyles Editor talbert.toole@hottytoddy.com Before football season even begins in the LOU community, the Oxford-Lafayette Chamber of Commerce spends its summer reaching out to...

Allen Boyer: Interview with James A. McLaughlin, Author of “Bearskin”

  “Bearskin,” by James A. McLaughlin, takes place on a forest preserve in southwestern Virginia. It is a holding of mythic dimensions, seven thousand of...

Lafayette County’s Baptist fund now worth $22M

By Alyssa Schnugg Staff writer alyssa.schnugg@hottytoddy.com Lafayette County's $20 million trust fund created following the sale of the old Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi is now worth $22,086,787, according...

NewsWatch Ole Miss LIVE at 5

NewsWatch is a live, student-run broadcast that airs from 5 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday on Channel 12. The 30-minute show...

Boyd: Harold Long was a Staple in Oxford, at The Beacon

By Scott Boyd I was honored to help celebrate the life of Harold Long today.... I first met Harold Long in late September, 1993, just a...

Ole Miss Soccer’s CeCe Kizer Dubbed SEC Offensive Player of the Week

By Adam Brown Sports Editor adam.brown@hottytoddy.com. Ole Miss’ senior forward CeCe Kizer was named SEC Offensive Player of the Week by the conference office on Monday. Kizer led...

Officials Say School “Soft-Lockdown” Earlier in Response to Police Activity in Area

By Anna Grace Usery Editor-in-Chief anna.grace.usery@hottytoddy.com Area schools Oxford Middle School and Bramlett Elementary experienced a brief soft-lockdown earlier this morning due police activity in the area. Oxford...

UM Pharmacy First-Years Receive White Coats

Some 105 first-year student pharmacists received their white coats Friday (Aug. 17), at a ceremony conducted by the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy. The...

Supervisors Approve Cleaning Up Unsafe Eyesore Properties

By Alyssa Schnugg Staff writer alyssa.schnugg@hottytoddy.com The Lafayette County Board of Supervisors voted Monday to clean up two properties in the county that were deemed a public...

Allen Boyer: “Breach of Peace” by Eric Etheridge, The 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders Review

During the summer of 1961, in the early days of the civil rights era, busloads of Freedom Riders descended on the bus stations of...
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