Addie Bradley
GREENVILLE — Funeral arrangements for Addie Bradley, 91, of Greenville, are pending with Redmon Funeral Home, Greenville. She died Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020, at Delta Regional Medical Center.
Catherine Hydrick
GREENVILLE — Catherine Sides Hydrick, 90, of Greenville, died Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020, at Delta Regional Medical Center. Visiting hours will be from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 5, at Mortimer Funeral Home.
Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 5, at Greenville Cemetery.
Lillie McDuffy-Williams
INDIANOLA — Graveside services for Lillie M. McDuffy-Williams, 77, of Indianola, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 8, at Riverside Memorial Gardens, Indianola, with the Rev. CW Ray officiating. She died Aug. 2, 2020. Services are under the direction of Byas Funeral Home, Indianola.
Elizabeth Atkins
CLINTON — Graveside services for Elizabeth Garner Atkins, 93, of Clinton, will be at noon Monday, Aug. 10, at Mount Vernon Cemetery, Midnight. She died Aug. 3, 2020. Visitation will be at 11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 10, at Byas Funeral Home, Belzoni.
Christopher Moore
GREENVILLE — Funeral arrangements for Christopher Marquee Moore, 43, of Greenville, are pending with Harris Funeral Home, Greenville. He died July 30, 2020, at Delta Regional Medical Center.
Get your bids ready, the state tax-forfeited land auction for 300 state-owned properties in Washington County started today.
Mayor Errick Simmons welcomed Secretary of State Michael Watson on Tuesday in preparation for the state tax-forfeited land auction, which began at 8 a.m. today.
The Delta Democrat-Times editorial staff took home numerous awards at the most recent Better Newspaper Contest hosted by the Mississippi Press Association for the 2019 contest year.
JACKSON — On Aug. 3, Greenville Renaissance Scholars of Greenville has been awarded a $4,300 grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission. This grant is a portion of the $1.3 million in grants the Commission will award in 2020-2021 and will be used to host Camp Renaissance 2021.
I love photography, especially when they are pictures taken by local photographers to show off our beautiful region. This week, local photographer John Keen shared pictures on Facebook he took Monday afternoon at the Greenville Cypress Preserve, but they were not what people expected to see.
The Office of the Mayor recently announced they learned a City Hall employee in the planning department has tested positive for COVID-19. As a result, the water department and the planning department will be closed today, Monday, July 13, from 1-5 p.m. for deep cleaning and sanitizing by a private contractor.
Folks are invited to head over to Delta Center Stage for an evening of mystery and laughs for their upcoming production of “Murder on the Orient Express.”
One man is dead after breaking into a home early this morning and shooting at the three people inside, including a minor.
Greenville Police Department Assistant Police Chief Michael Merchant said officers received the call about the shooting at 5 a.m. this morning at a home in the 300 block of Ohio Street.
St. Joseph Catholic School junior Kaleb Lockett said he and his teammate Dillon Johnson have a special connection, and on Friday night Lockett and Johnson proved it.
Local police say the man who was found dead inside a manhole earlier this month appears to be an accidental death.
On Monday, the Washington County Board of Supervisors voted 4 to 1 to work with the Greenville Historic Preservation committee in the relocation of the Confederate statue on the Washington County Courthouse grounds to another county site at the expense of the county.
A.C. Bethany
HOLLANDALE — Funeral arrangements for A.C. Alexander Bethany, 67, of Hollandale, are pending with Sanders Byas Funeral Home, Greenville. He died Friday, May 10, 2019, in Rolling Fork.
Rosetta Edwards
GREENVILLE — Funeral services for Rosetta Edwards, 81, of Greenville, will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 4, at Pilgrim Rest, with the Rev. Mark Hines officiating. She died Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019. Burial will be at Oaklawn Memorial Gardens, under the direction of Byas Funeral Home, Greenville.
Delta Regional Medical Center has established a COVID-19 Results Line for anyone who has been tested at a DRMC location. The hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday-Friday and the number is 662-379-0434.
DRMC is also holding free COVID-19 testing in the hospital's ER parking lot. Testing is performed from 1-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.
It is 9 o’clock in the morning on Friday, July 10, and, right now, I am not optimistic we will have high school sports this fall.
