A caravan of vehicles, trucks and automobiles towing trailers loaded with belongings will serpentine around the perimeter of Mississippi College on the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 13, as new students and their families await their turn to set up a living space in one of the many residence halls on the Clinton campus. Move-In Day…

The Clinton Courier Clinton’s hometown paper, The Clinton Courier, made a prominent and repeated appearance in the recent metro-area youth production of Newsies, Jr. The Rankin Performing Arts production starred two Clinton students, Charlie Parker and Isaiah Schellang-Stephens. Also, Clinton’s own Luke Parker, a student at Mississippi College, is the music director for Rankin Performing…

Chip Wilson has played an instrumental role in welcoming freshmen and transfer students to Mississippi College for more than a decade by helping to develop programming for Welcome Week, a series of engaging activities that introduce the newcomers to the Christian University’s campus culture. From his undergraduate days at MC as a Welcome Week student…

Special to The Clinton Courier Slightly Tarnished, a unique group of musicians, will perform on Friday, August 15, at 6:30 p.m. at the Clinton Visitor Center. The group is unique in that the members have been playing music for decades, and their music influences come from several genres of music. The Beatles, John Prine, The…

Public hearing set for CPSD budget The Clinton Public School District (CPSD) has drafted the IDEA Part B budget for Fiscal Year 2026. In accordance with Miss. Code Ann. §37-23-137(7) and 34 CFR §300.212, the proposed budget is available for public review and comment. Those who would like to request a digital copy can contact…

By Randy Bell Construction is back underway on the first phase of Clinton’s northernmost business development after a three-month delay. Some initial dirt work had been done on the more than fifteen acres along Pinehaven Drive near Northside Drive which make up the CityPointe Centre site before an issue with a Mississippi Department of Environmental…

  A new agreement between the Department of Counseling at Mississippi College and the G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center in Jackson will allow qualified students at the Christian University to gain clinical experience by providing counseling services to veteran patients at the facility. A Memorandum of Understanding between the two institutions developed a mutually…

By Randy Bell “It’s either bring it down safely, or it’s coming down on its own.” That’s how Tabb Hataway, owner of Clinton’s Johnson Milling Company, summed up his request to the Board of Aldermen for permission to demolish the grain elevators and silos which have stood on the property for about fifty years. After…

Special to The Clinton Courier   We Didn’t Have To Meet Here by Pace Rundlett Four strangers meet in an unfamiliar place with absolutely nothing in common… except for the fact that they’re dead. And before they can move on, they need to understand why. A moving portrait of the stories behind the statistics in…

By Susalyn Bennett Local veterans from Clinton were recently welcomed and visited with Raymond Marks (U.S. Marine Corps retired) of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, after they learned that his quest to complete items on his Bucket List would bring him to the area.   Marks is traveling the United States, visiting every town named “Raymond.”  “I like to meet…

Special to The Clinton Courier     An unforecasted torrential downpour didn’t dampen the July 1 Fresh at Five farmers’ market Cobbler Cookoff, with George Ewing’s (center) caramel cobbler being selected as the winner.  Distinguished judges Rosemary Aultman (left) and Mary Lewis Govero (right) praised Ewing’s caramel cobbler for its “great crust-to-filling ratio” and just…

Twenty-five Mississippi State students, including Sarah Beth Hammons, a junior business administration major from Clinton, are serving as 2025 Orientation Leaders, welcoming over 10,000 admitted students and family members to fifteen orientation sessions this summer. Orientation Leaders are chosen through a competitive selection process and have an integral role alongside the Division of Academic Affairs…

Special to The Clinton Courier   A business meeting outlining plans for the new club year and the final presentation in the series featuring Mississippi Celebrities highlighted the May meeting of the Clinton Study Club. Christina Burns, president, presided over a business session and stated that the theme for the next year, beginning in September,…

Special to The Clinton Courier     Three administrators with the Clinton Public School District were recognized by the Mississippi Association of Colleges for Teacher Education during the annual MACTE Awards Luncheon on Friday, June 13, in Meridian. Each year, colleges and universities across the state choose to recognize current graduates of educational programs and…

More than 500 employees help make Mississippi College a beacon of exceptional Christian education, and Donna Smith is proud to say that she knows every single one of them. “Working with our employees is an absolute joy,” said Smith, MC’s director of human resources. “I feel so blessed to have the opportunity to work, to…

Special to The Clinton Courier Three Clintonians recently graduated from The Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science (MSMS) in the Class of 2025, Brooke Sarah Anderson, Thaddeus Jason Ciesielski Gilbert and Eden G Zmitrovich. All three students previously attended Clinton High School.   Anderson is the child of Brian Anderson and Day Anderson and will…

By Lora Delhom We all get 1,440 minutes a day, but how we spend them is up to us. Around the world, “extreme day tripping” is gaining popularity – fast-paced, memory-packed adventures packed into a single day. This summer, lower gas prices and higher hotel costs are fueling the trend in the United States, making…

By: Annie Oeth, UMMC Communications     Rising cases of pertussis nationally and statewide serve as a reminder to parents to vaccinate their children against this and other highly contagious diseases, experts at the University of Mississippi Medical Center say. Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a preventable respiratory illness that can be life-threatening to infants.…

  Mississippi College marked the conclusion of another successful Christian summer camp season in July that saw 38 students respond to the Gospel, 46 rededicate their lives to Christ and 25 receive a calling to the ministry. Additionally, approximately 1,200 campers and their adult sponsors contributed over 15,000 hours of volunteer service to the Jackson…

Today the National Folk Festival announced six additional artists appearing at the 82nd National Folk Festival in downtown Jackson from November 7-9, 2025, the first year of the event’s three-year residency in the capital city. Mississippi, with its rich musical legacy, is heavily featured in the artists announced today, highlighting the state’s Indigenous culture, its…