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Hazlehurst High School announces top honor graduates

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Hazlehurst High School has announced their top students for the 2020- 2021 school year. Quinten Williams has been named valedictorian, Ja’Keela Minor has been named salutatorian, and Kenneth Frazier III has been named historian. Williams is the son of Quincy Williams and Symico Fuller-Williams. He will study computer science at the University of Southern Mississippi.…

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Pirate Jean Laffite’s ties to county revealed in new book; Crystal Springs book-signing set for May 19

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By Tricia Nelson A long-running mystery has revealed itself. Jean Laffite was a French pirate and privateer who operated in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th century. He purportedly died in the 1820s, but no one knew exactly where or when. Mother-daughter authors Beth Yarbrough and Ashley Oliphant have finally solved the mystery.…

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Co-Lin basketball to host summer camp

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Copiah-Lincoln Community College will hold a basketball day camp for first through eighth grader girls and boys on its Wesson Campus on Wednesday and Thursday, May 26 and 27. Registration will be held in Mullen Gymnasium from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 26, with the first session beginning at 9 a.m. Staff will be…

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Local students graduate from University of Mississippi

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The University of Mississippi celebrated more than 5,000 candidates for graduation in the Class of 2021 during the university’s 168th Commencement exercises April 29 to May 2. The following local students were candidates for graduation: A’mya Ireanna Jones, of Crystal Springs, was a candidate for a Bachelor of Arts. Jones was an Interdisciplinary Studies and…

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