Jack Criss

Special proclamation was presented to family on November 4 A special — and unique — recognition of a special life was made at last Monday night’s Cleveland City Council meeting held on November 4. On behalf of the city, Mayor Billy Nowell presented Mississippi District 29 Representative and Councilman Ward 2 Alderman, Robert Sanders and his […]

WBCSD instructor and competitive marathon runner Shanna Bolden of Cleveland is in her first year as West Bolivar Consolidated School District Science Academic Officer for all of the schools in the district who, basically, oversees all of the science content and assessment for WBCSD. She has also recently become known as a marathon runner and

Event commemorating centennial held on October 12 Boy Scouts of America (BSA) Troop 23 in Cleveland celebrated its 100th year on Saturday, October 12, at First United Methodist Church downtown. The event was attended by around 150 people of all ages, many of whom came from out of state for the special centennial observance. Rogers Varner,

“Big Man’s Watermelon Farm” attracts national attention Morris Hodges may run a relatively small farm in his hometown of Mound Bayou — about five acres where he grows watermelon and cantaloupe — but its reputation as “Big Man’s Watermelon Farm” is very large indeed, extending even to Washington, D.C. Tom Vilsack, the current U.S. Secretary of