Joyce Holloway Simpson, 86, a Clarksdale resident and music teacher since 1958, died Wednesday, March 20, 2019, at Oxford Health and Rehab.
Mrs. Simpson accompanied her husband for 65 years in his ministry of music. She also was a member of the Wind Assemble and member and organist at Riverside Baptist Church.
Sandra Upton Brooks, 67, a Clarksdale resident who was retired from Dr. Gates’ Veterinary Hospital, died Tuesday, March 19, 2019, at Methodist University in Memphis, Tenn.
For most of Dalton Hawes’ life, baseball has played a central role.
The senior at Lee Academy has seen and experienced the game from his days on the youth baseball diamond to Dixie Boys and throughout each grade at Lee.
And he has no intention of slowing down.
An audit report earlier this year showed that the Coahoma County Chancery Clerk’s Office was up to six months behind in recording the minutes from meetings conducted by the Coahoma County Board of Supervisors.
Colleen Buyers, a businessperson from the San Francisco area, is looking to put a walking tour of Clarksdale together through a GPS for people to be able to use on their phones.
Buyers made a presentation of what the walking tour would entail during the Wednesday, March 13 Coahoma County Tourism board meeting.
The Clarksdale Public Utilities board approved a $500 sponsorship for Coahoma Opportunities Inc.’s “A Taste of Clarksdale.”
“A Taste of Clarksdale” will be held to be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 12 at the Clarksdale Civic Auditorium, where people will be able to purchase tickets and get food at different stations.
Elise Ellington, a 14-year-old eighth-grader at Clarksdale’s W.A. Higgins Academy, competed against 40 of her peers in a statewide spelling bee for the second time at the Mississippi Public Broadcasting Studio in Jackson on Tuesday.
Robbie Linley is the first to admit he should be dead.
Instead, 10 months after being told he had a tumor that would likely end his life, Linley is back to work at the Clarksdale Police Department as an assistant chief.
H.D. King, Jr., 92, who was retired from Wonder Bread, passed away Tuesday, March 19, 2019, at his home in Clarksdale.
Mr. King was a Mason and an avid gardener.
Neel-Schaefer and Gardner Engineering have entered bids to become the official engineering firm for Fletcher Field in Clarksdale.
For most of Dalton Hawes’ life, baseball has played a central role.
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