Merigold News

As Mississippi Rhodes Scholar Shad White examines in a thougtful commentary in today's 'Perpsective' section, Mississippi's former charter school law died this year for lack of legislative reauthorization.

Stop by the Mississippi Museum of Art in downtown Jackson for lunch, and you may feel like you're having lunch in a big city.

T he soul of the Blues Highwaywhich follows the Mississippi River from Tennessee to the Gulf of Mexicolies along the blacktops that connect Memphis, Tunica, Clarksdale, Mound Bayou, and Merigold.

Father Aloysius Heick, a 41-year-old German missionary, put his life on the line in 1905 when he attempted to establish a mission school in the Delta town of Merigold for poor African Americans.

Mound Bayou Police Chief Simon Bush says 30-year-old Rundell James of Merigold, who was initially charged with aggravated assault/domestic violence against a family member, will now be charged with murder.

A 30-year-old Merigold man who was held in the attack of an elderly Mound Bayou woman has been charged.

DON GANT OF MERIGOLD HAS BEEN SELECTED AS THE 2009 SWISHER SWEET/SUNBELT EXPO MISSISSIPPI FARMER OF THE YEAR.

Donald Gant of Merigold has been named the 2009 Swisher Sweet/Sunbelt Expo Mississippi Farmer of the Year.