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Delta Center Stage’s debut performance, 'Blessings from the Pandemic,' starts Friday

By Jon Alverson jalverson@ddtonline.com, 1,613 Reads

Delta Center Stage makes its 2021 debut performing a collection of poems called Blessings from the Pandemic with three performances starting Friday night and ending Sunday afternoon.

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New flags raised over City Hall

By Jon Alverson jalverson@ddtonline.com, 7,640 Reads

On a chilly, overcast day, members of the Greenville Police Department and Fire Department acted as color guard for the raising of three new flags over Greenville City Hall.

The first flag was the flag of the United States, followed by the flag of the State of Mississippi and the flag of the City of Greenville.

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GPSD: Students will not return to school after spring break

By Jon Alverson jalverson@ddtonline.com, 779 Reads

The Greenville Public School Board recently voted down a plan to return to in-person learning after spring break, but will revisit the issue at its next board meeting.

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Greenville Tree Board to plant several new trees throughout city

By Jon Alverson jalverson@ddtonline.com, 1,330 Reads

The canopy of trees in Greenville will see a few more additions after this weekend’s tree-planting project by the Greenville Tree Board.

The seven-member board along with an assist from City of Greenville employees will add 42 new trees throughout the city.

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Mother, daughter stay at Belmont Plantation in late father’s honor

By Jon Alverson jalverson@ddtonline.com, 28,676 Reads

Claire Ducote’s husband was in the final days of his fight against a brain tumor that would eventually claim his life on Oct. 31 when he began researching one last family trip.

He’d sent an email to Camille Collins at Belmont Plantation inquiring about a stay at the antebellum house.

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Washington County loses, regains state road funding

By Jon Alverson jalverson@ddtonline.com, 863 Reads

In a situation Washington County Board of Supervisors President Carl McGee said was more than just a procedural error, the county was without State Aid and LSBP Program funds for a short time this week.

Those funds are used to repair roads and bridges in the county.

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Dichotomy on a turkey hunt

By Jon Alverson jalverson@ddtonline.com, 1,648 Reads

To say there is a dichotomy in the world’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic would not be the understatement of the year.

I saw this very difference in an about 30-minute stretch on a recent trip to Alabama for the opening of youth turkey season.

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Time in vaccine line well spent

By Jon Alverson jalverson@ddtonline.com, 1,097 Reads

All too often, the reports of the efficacy of programs in Greenville and Washington

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Bugging Out

By Jon Alverson jalverson@ddtonline.com, 1,512 Reads

The Washington School third grade classes held their school play on Friday, Jan. 29. The play was named Bugging Out.

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The percent of the voting age population in Washington County registered to vote is more than 90 percent.

Voter registration in county is high

By Jon Alverson jalverson@ddtonline.com, 29,374 Reads

The estimated voting age population of Washington County in September was 34,346 people.

Of those, 32,061 or 93.347% are registered to vote.

While the registration number was high, counting absentee ballots, about 17,000 people voted in the presidential election on Tuesday.

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