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Six members of the Crystal Springs Mayor’s Youth Council attended the 14th annual Statewide Youth Summit Feb. 25-26 on the campus of Delta State University in Cleveland. They were one of 17 councils from throughout the state of Mississippi who attended. They participated in a campus tour on Friday night and concluded the night with…

Wesson Cobras fell to Lawrence County 8-7 on Feb. 26 on the final play of the game. Lawrence County was down 7-6 in the bottom of the seventh inning when Conner Johnson homered on the first pitch of the at-bat, scoring two runs. The Cobras lost despite out-hitting Lawrence County six to five. The Cobras opened up scoring in the…

The Marjorie Aiken Rector Memorial Scholarship was recently endowed with the Copiah-Lincoln Community College Foundation. Rector’s daughter, Dr. Stephanie Rector Duguid, dean of academics at Co-Lin, and her husband, Brent Duguid, cean of career-tech at Co-Lin, along with donations from other friends and family of Marjorie Rector, established this scholarship to benefit students pursuing a…

Avantavis Carter, Antonea Hilliard, and Kandria Larry recently served as pages for the Mississippi House of Representatives.  Pages generally run errands for officials and House staff.  Carter, 18, is a senior at Hazlehurst High School and is the son of Alisha and Lisa Carter.  Hilliard, 16, is a sophomore at Hazlehurst High School and is…