The Bizzy B's grand reopening and 10th anniversary was held on Nov/ 6, in downtown DeKalb. In June the store’s roof was damaged by high winds.
For the fourth consecutive year DeKalb Mayor Clark Adams is sponsoring a free Thanksgiving meal for local citizens.
The Looking Back feature has returned to the Kemper County Messenger. Every week we will take a quick look at stories of interest from back issues of the newspaper.
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When he took over as superintendent of Kemper County Schools in January of 2020, Hilute Hudson had a list of things the felt needed to be addressed.
The second edition of the Kemper County Messenger’s outdoors page, sponsored by Latimer’s Grocery, is set to run in next week’s edition of the paper.
The Kemper Academy shooting team is getting ready to take part in the Winter Qualifier on Dec. 4 at Turcotte Shooting Facility in Jackson. Earlier this year the six-member varsity team and nine-member junior varsity team competed at McIvor Shooting Facility in Sardis.
Eligible Kemper County voters who would like to vote absentee are able to do so in person through this Saturday at noon at the circuit clerk’s office in the Kemper County Courthouse. Mail absentee votes must be postmarked by Nov. 23, which is Election Day.
The Kemper County Sheriff’s department is hoping the arrest of a Kemper County man will help slow down calls they have been receiving from DeKalb residents about four-wheelers running through the streets of the town.
The newest addition to the fleet at the Preston Volunteer Fire Department is just what the doctor ordered.
After a month-long investigation by the Kemper County Sheriff’s Department, Kemper County High School head football coach and director of athletics Charles Rashaun Westerfield was arrested on sexual battery charges on Wednesday, Nov. 10.
There is some debate among local political pundits as to what kind of voter turnout there will be for Tuesday’s special election run-off for the District 32 seat in the Mississippi State Senate.
Voters in Kemper County, as well as those in parts of Winston, Noxubee, and Lauderdale counties will go to the polls this Tuesday to elect the next Mississippi State Senator from District 32.
The month of October has slipped away from us, but the John C. Stennis Career and Technical Center (CTE) has been very busy accomplishing great things during the month of October.
MAGNOLIA, Ark. — East Mississippi Community College’s rodeo teams placed second in women’s competition and fifth in men’s action this past weekend at Southern Arkansas University’s Annual Intercollegiate Rodeo.
During a Kemper Forestry Meeting in 2017, several people at our table mentioned these were the best hush puppies they have ever had. After the meeting, while cleaning up the kitchen, I asked Ruby (Rankin) if she had made the hush puppies.
As Americans, we often struggle with what it means to be American. Being an American means cookouts, fireworks, democracy, and freedom.
NATIONAL HEAD START AWARENESS MONTH DeKalb HS-EHS Center welcomes its parents and children to the 2021-2022 school year! Many preparations have taken place to ensure that our children experience an exciting and safe educational setting. For more information, please contact DeKalb HS-EHS Center at 601-743-2607.
The Looking Back feature has returned to the Kemper County Messenger. Every week we will take a quick look at stories of interest from back issues of the newspaper.
SCOOBA — Braden Smith and other members of Boy Scouts of America Troop 70 in Meridian upgraded the meditation garden adjacent to the Chapel in the Pines on East Mississippi Community College’s Scooba campus.
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