Mississippi College’s premier choral ensemble will provide a sense of prayerful earnestness to this year’s Homecoming festivities when the MC Singers present a concert at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 26, in Provine Chapel on the Clinton campus. The event is free and the public is invited. Beth Everett, director of choral activities at MC,…

By Carole Kelly      Fall Festival will highlight October programs at the Clinton-Quisenberry Library, reports Brittany Moore, branch manager.        “Fall Festival on Tuesday, October 29, will have us watching Hotel Transylvania,” says Moore, who notes that the festival will include face painting and caramel-apple dipping classes.  Add in popcorn with soda and punch, and the fun…

We are approaching what is historically the respiratory virus season. The Mississippi State Department of Health encourages everyone to get appropriate updated vaccinations to avoid severe outcomes such as hospitalization and death. The rates of respiratory viruses such as influenza, RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) and COVID tend to increase during the fall and winter months…

As of Monday, October 21, 2024, the Statewide Election Management System (SEMS) reported a total of 86,525 absentee ballots requested, 84,636 absentee ballots sent, and 67,802 absentee ballots received in the state of Mississippi for the 2024 November General Election. As a reminder, the requested total reflects the number of Mississippi voters who have requested an absentee ballot through their local Circuit Clerk’s Office. The sent total reflects the number…

  This week, October 20-26, is National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week and the Mississippi State Department of Health is spreading awareness about the dangers of the toxic metal and imploring parents to get their children and homes tested. Between 2017 and 2021, 845 Mississippi children tested positive for elevated blood lead levels. Medicaid recipients were…

Mississippi College has a number of exciting events planned for faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends during MC’s 2024 Homecoming on Oct. 25-26. The 2024 homecoming celebration features the theme of “Golden Hour.” Festivities begin Friday, Oct. 25 with a golf tournament, and receptions and culminate with Follies. Saturday, Oct. 26 features the National Alumni…

Family fun coming with Oct. 24 H.O.O.T. By Sherry Lucas      Familiar haunts in Clinton get a frightfully fun edge Thursday, October 24, as Lions Club Park again becomes the site for The Haunting of Old Towne (H.O.O.T.), the City of Clinton’s annual family-friendly Halloween festival, planned for 6 until 8 p.m.        Scheduled a week…

One of the most anticipated entertainment events of Mississippi College’s Homecoming Weekend is back this fall, and alumni who have participated in past showstopping stage performances can’t wait to see what’s in store for 2024. An MC tradition for more than three decades, Follies is a “cavalcade of competitive showmanship” that promises to bring elite musical flair…

Special to The Clinton Courier            The Clinton community is invited to the Clinton Visitor Center on Thursday, October 24, from 5:30 to7:30 p.m. for a book talk on Walter Howell’s Town and Gown, The Saga of Clinton and Mississippi College, presented by Dr. Ron Howard, and Fallen Comrade, A Story of the Korean War,…

By: Magnolia Mornings, Magnolia Tribune   The Jackson State University Campus Store announced a new Walter Payton Collection, a tribute to one of history’s most iconic football players. The collection is part of the Campus Legends Program by @rootsoffight and honors Payton’s legacy as a Tiger and his extraordinary impact on and off the field.…

When race director Suzanne McDonough initially approached Mississippi College Coach Joel “Hap” Hudson about naming the Department of Kinesiology’s new Homecoming 5K run/walk in his honor, the legendary athletic trainer and member of the MC Athletics Hall of Fame was nonplussed. “I thought you did stuff like that after a person dies, not before,” Hudson…

By Danny C. Davis      After two tough losses against top-10 teams, the Clinton Arrows finished out their non-region part of the schedule, with a convincing 42-7 road win against Class 6A and undefeated Terry.      Clinton then had an open date before facing four Region 2-7A games to close the season. First, CHS hosts defending Class…

By Randy Bell      Jeff Blackledge says it was never his goal to become Clinton’s fire chief.  But that’s the job he was given in 2016.      “It’s been a ride,” Blackledge said after announcing his retirement plans in a letter to Mayor Phil Fisher and the Board of Aldermen on September 25.  “I’ve enjoyed it.”      The…

  Artist Lucía Duque, originally from Spain, is adding color and beauty to the community with a new botanical mural. The large mural will be painted on the SouthGroup Insurance building, located at 201 Clinton Boulevard, in the heart of one of the Main Street Clinton districts, the Boulevard Business District. This initiative is a…

One of the nation’s most dynamic and powerful female executives and a tireless champion for women in corporate leadership shared her “traveler’s tips” for success during the Mississippi College Women’s Council’s first “Latimer Lunch” Sept. 23 at the Latimer House on the Clinton campus. Mary Bass, consultant and executive recruiter for Spencer Stuart, a Houston,…

Special to The Clinton Courier      The Friday, October 18, music offering will feature the band Slightly Tarnished.  The band members have been playing music for decades and enjoy all types of music, especially Americana, folk rock and traditional country.  Three of the five band members have been playing since the sixties and love performing for…

By Randy Bell      After complaints that there’s too much glare, the City of Clinton is looking for a cost-effective solution to prevent the lights along the Arrow Drive multi-use path from blinding and confusing drivers.  A plan to install new globes outfitted with louvers to illuminate the path while not shining so much in the…

A pair of skilled clinical nurses with more than four decades of professional experience combined have joined the School of Nursing faculty at Mississippi College. Tracy M, Lindsay, director of women’s services and director of hospital education for Merit Health System in Jackson, and Wendi Lofton McLendon, staff nurse and sedation float nurse at the…

By Guest Columnist Nash Nunnery      Like most novel, over-the-top ideas, it started with a question.      “What if?”      What if some particularly loyal Clinton High School alums put on a multi-class reunion? What if they held this multi-class reunion street party on a grand scale in downtown Clinton? And, what if they called it “Arrowstock,” a…

The Department of English and Philosophy at Mississippi College will host the 48th Lipsey Lecture, “The Stories That Are Ours to Write,” at 6 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 21, at the Gore Art Gallery in the Leland Speed Library. The lecture will accompany a photography exhibit that focuses on the May 1970 Gibbs-Green tragedy at Jackson…

By Randy Bell      Clinton businesses will no longer be allowed to sell kratom and other “gas station drugs” after the Board of Aldermen voted to ban those products. The resolution passed at the Board’s September 17 meeting prohibits the use, purchase, possession, distribution, sale or offering for sale of synthetic cocaine, other synthetic products or…

By Randy Bell      After operating with the same tow truck policy for about thirty years, Clinton decided it was time for a change.  The Board of Aldermen, at its September 17 meeting, approved an updated policy which City Attorney Will Purdie says includes “new rate structures and new requirements” for tow truck companies who want…

By: Chris Gray     Our next adoption and foster care class will be on Wednesday, October 16th, 2024, at Crossgates Church from 6:05-7:00p in room 207. * The class is free to attend and open to the public. * Childcare is provided for free through the church. * RSVP is not required. * Foster families…