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Meredith talks new Delta Blues Power Plant with Rotarians

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Thu,02/12/26-1:39PM, 424 Reads
Ryan Meredith told Greenville Rotarians this week that Entergy Mississippi’s new Delta Blues Advanced Power Station will be a “transformative” project for the Delta, bringing hundreds of construction jobs, new permanent positions and more reliable power as Mississippi chases billions in high‑tech investment.
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Lonnie Whiting Jr., a resident at the Unita Blackwell Stay Apartments in Mayersville, expressed joy in having electricity restored at the complex. "Everything is electric, so it was hard, but we making it," Whiting said on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

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A winter storm is just the latest test of resilience in the sparsely populated south Delta

By ALEX ROZIER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY ALEX ROZIER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,02/05/26-1:04PM, 423 Reads 6,038 Statewide
Preparing to feed a revolving door of linemen Monday at her restaurant Chuck’s Dairy Bar, Tracy Harden recalled the winter storm of 1994, the last one that resembled what many Mississippians have lived through the past two weeks. It was then, 32 years ago, she stumbled upon a lineman she still knows well to this day.
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St. John: Taproots

By ROBERT ST. JOHN ROBERT ST. JOHN
Thu,02/05/26-1:58PM, 422 Reads 7,297 Statewide
Robert St. John says sometimes we’re too hard on Mississippi. We know the flaws. We’ve lived with them. But we can’t see the forest for the pine trees, as they say.
Marco had never seen a pine plantation.
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Charles Coffey Sr.

Tue,02/03/26-12:14PM, 422 Reads
GREENVILLE, Mississippi - Funeral services for Charles Coffey Sr., 66, of Greenville, will be held Saturday, February 7, 2026 at 2:30 p.m. at Greater Saint Peter MB Church. Visitation will be Friday, February 6, 2026 from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the funeral home.
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