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By Eddie Smith, MSU Extension Service Mabel Murphree’s Tupelo garden has an impressive variety of plants, but what really caught my attention were her purple blooms. One of the first plants that stood out to me was the chive, typically known as an herb but also a great pollinator plant. The beauty of chive flowers…

By Gary Pettus It was Dustin Clarke who found the wedding band with the inscription, “Ever true to thee,” in an unmarked grave. Clarke, who died last year, was an archaeologist on the Asylum Hill Project, an ongoing commitment to respectfully exhume the remains and memorialize the lives of as many as 7,000 people who…

By Sid Salter The 34 guilty verdicts in the New York state court trial of former President Donald Trump on felony charges of falsifying business records of alleged “hush money” payments to an adult film actress as part of a scheme to influence the 2016 election has opened the floodgates on a river of partisan…

by James L. Cummins, Executive Director of Wildlife Mississippi Whether you are a photographer, a hunter, or just like viewing wildlife on a sunny afternoon, anyone who has spent time overlooking a food plot will have a deep appreciation for wildlife plantings. Food plots are very attractive to wildlife enthusiasts because they can supplement daily…

What’s your vision for downtown Crystal Springs? Main Street Crystal Springs wants to hear your ideas. It is sponsoring a downtown “Walking Visioning Tour” at 5 p.m., Wednesday, June 5. Residents are invited to join the tour, which begins at City Hall. The tour will be led by Joe Borgstrom, a real estate consultant with…

The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks invites you to celebrate National Fishing and Boating Week, running from June 1 to 9. This nationwide celebration is an invitation for all fishing and boating enthusiasts to come together and enjoy the outdoors. In Mississippi, June 1 and 2 have been designated as “Free Fishing Days,”…

By Eddie Smith, MSU Extension Service I recently told you about the spring-blooming native plants I saw during a recent visit to the backyard gardens of Sarah Young in Tupelo. The benefits of this garden filled with native and non-native plants extends beyond the beauty of the plants themselves. Gardening is a form of physical…

By Bonnie Coblentz, MSU Extension Service Sunshine and long days make summertime in the South desirable for people, but those same conditions are exactly what allows the dreaded, imported fire ants to thrive. Almost any sunny, grassy area left unattended will soon be home to fire ants. Fire ants were accidentally imported from South America…

By Sid Salter After winning 73% of the vote on April 19 among workers in a Chattanooga, Tenn., Volkswagen plant to join the United Auto Workers union, organized labor leaders began to predict a growing erosion of decades of Southern state opposition to labor union membership. Specifically, union leaders began to predict victory in an…