October 29, 2025

BPAC Director Search Ongoing

Replacement sought while season continues Following the departure of former Executive Director, Lauren Powell, in early September the Bologna Performing Arts Center is currently focused on finding her replacement while keeping a busy fall schedule running smoothly. According to Dr. Edwin Craft, Delta State University’s Vice President for Finance and Administration which oversees the center, […]

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DSU Radio Station

Using student on-air personalities ust listen to the music: There’s nothing quite like it in the Delta — and it’s a sound emanating from Cleveland and the campus of Delta State University. 88.1 WDSW The Trail (WDSW-LP) is a licensed LPFM radio station by the Federal Communications Commission. The station broadcasts with a 100-watt stereo

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DSU Golf Victorious

Statesmen take first in Derrall Foreman Invitational The golf team at Delta State University came up huge in the Derrall Foreman Invitational at the Samuel T. Dunning Golf Course.  The Statesmen won the two-day tournament that started on Oct. 20 and concluded on Oct. 21. The Statesmen were tied for second with Trevecca Nazarene after

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A Short History Of One Of Shelby’s Early Families

Wallace Wooten’s passing marks 137 years of his family’s presence in this community In 1888, the Mississippi Delta was a muddy, undeveloped swampland, only just beginning to be cleared for farmland and orchards. Abner Wooten, a young man coming of age in Memphis, TN, was hired to travel up and down the railroad, a beautifully illustrated

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Halfway Kitchen

Satisfying taste buds on Highway 8 On Highway 8 between Cleveland and Ruleville, Wanda Cole has a kitchen where she cooks and dishes out mouth-watering, homemade meals to go. The Halfway Kitchen is a longtime dream for Cole, who finally took the plunge into the culinary world. Her Halfway Kitchen Facebook page says it all. 

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