August 13, 2020

Barry Bays

Multi-instrumentalist, session musician, DMI instructor. If you have been to a blues festival, juke joint, or listened to live music anywhere in the Mississippi Delta within the last twenty-five years, there is a decent chance you’ve seen Barry Bays play the bass guitar. Bays has been a mainstay on the Delta music scene as a …

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Looking Good

Family-owned business for more than 40 years. Chirag Dadlani has been in the men’s apparel business for most of his life. His family has owned Looking Good for over 40 years and Dadlani is the second generation to take over the business. He said he was basically raised in his stores growing up, went to …

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Hurricane Katrina

Fifteen years later, storm still impacts locals. The mere mention of the name Katrina still causes many Mississippians to shudder.  Ramming and ravaging the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts 15 years ago this month on August 29, 2005, the aftershock of the devastating hurricane, in some way, touched every life in both states–even those living in …

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OctoberFest Postponed

Issue discussed at Aldermen meeting. Cleveland’s OctoberFest will be postponed until a further date, Mayor Billy Nowell said at the monthly Aldermen meeting on August 4.  Judson Thigpen, Executive Director of the Chamber of Commerce, brought the question to the board of whether OctoberFest should continue in a socially distanced way, be postponed, or cancelled.  …

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