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CES celebrates more than $1 million in renovations

Thanksgiving hadn’t even arrived yet, but hundreds of students, families, faculty administrators and board directors offered up thanks as Coast Episcopal School (CES) celebrated and dedicated campus renovations at a November 17 ribbon cutting at the school. “The improvements you see today encompass forty years of repair work, completed in just two months this past…

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Applications Being Accepted for UMMC Dental Mission Week Care

Medically underserved Mississippians in need of free dental treatment are invited to apply for services available during Dental Mission Week at the University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Dentistry. Dental Mission Week, set for Jan. 29-Feb. 1, 2024, seeks to raise awareness of issues related to access to dental care and to provide free…

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Homeschool Honor Society installs officers, adds members

The 2023-2024 Zeta Pi Chapter of the Eta Sigma Alpha National Home School Honor Society recently held a ceremony of induction and installation of officers. Three new members who met the criteria of scholarship, character, leadership and service participated in the induction ceremony: Emma Davis, Alyssa Frost and Hannah Yarborough. In addition to inducting new…

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Top Ten Tips to Save Money on Energy Bill

The annual energy bill for a typical single-family home is $2,060 in the United States.  Have you ever wondered just where that money goes?  Well, for the average family, a whopping 42% of that is made up of heating and cooling costs combined. Water heating is another 13% of the total cost.  Electronics account for…

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Movie Review: “Night Swim”

For the first time since the pandemic, January means the release of a terrible horror movie in “Night Swim.” Actually, the pandemic only really affected January horror in 2021. It’s …

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LIBRARIES GROW HOMEGROWN EVENT TO INCLUDE 20-PLUS AUTHORS, COOKBOOKS, & MORE!

What do a former taxi driver; the son of a Baptist preacher; a New Orleans chef who’s started a farm in Pearlington (MS); a “military brat” and immigrant from Okinawa; one of the few remaining New Orleans’ residents of the batture on the Mississippi River (Look it up!); a major Emmy award-winning TV director (Meet the Press) from Washington, D.C.; a grand-daughter whose family confronted the Hungarian Holocaust; another chef who was the food consultant during filming of the movie, The Help; an expert on the folklore and cultural history of the song, Li’l Liza Jane; another expert on the Brown Pelican; and a writer who studied under one of the most gifted American authors, Toni Morrison, while at Princeton – all have in common?

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