Oak Grove News

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Guirlando Jr. are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Jessica Brooke Guirlando, to Steven Darby Rye, son of Mr.

The sounds of 'Thriller' echoed through the halls of Oak Grove Elementary School on Monday as fifth-grade students were taught to move to the music.

The Ruston Farmers Market reopens Saturday for the fall season with hours of 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. Saturdays.

Oak Grove High School students Brittain Allgood and Whitnee Bradford both were mesmerized and intimidated when they walked into the Debbie Allen Dance Academy in Los Angeles this summer.

On September 19, 2009 family and friends gathered to celebrate the marriage of Bianca Christina Miller Hayes and Michael Bonner Seamans.

Tommy Waldrop realized nearly three decades ago there was a need for a reliable small-engine business in northeastern Louisiana.

Some local teens will get a taste of what it's like to be homeless when they build their own shanties from cardboard boxes and spend the night in them.

BATON ROUGE - Public school students will have to take going to class seriously next year if they hope to pass.

BATON ROUGE - A Board of Elementary and Secondary Education decision Tuesday to send rules for implementing the state's new career diploma to another panel for review irked the state lawmakers who pushed the legislation through the Legislature.

Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Ross Jr. of Oak Grove, La. are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Donna Gail Ross, to Joel Brett Evans, son of Larry and Linda Evans of West Monroe, La.

Oak Grove's annual Jesse James Festival started out six years ago as a local event to lure the people of West Carroll Parish back downtown.

Oak Grove High School coach Nevil Barr has been around Brett Favre as much as anybody this summer.

Former guidance counselor Helen Price stepped into a new role this year at Oak Grove High School - a transition that's brought about more than just a change in title.

Vicki Simmons and William Walker, both of Oak Grove, were married at three o'clock in the afternoon on June 20, 2009, at First Baptist of Oak Grove in Hattiesburg.

Students at Oak Grove Elementary School will get an extra week of summer vacation.

The pressures on teens today to be godly in an ungodly culture can be almost overpowering, especially when those teenagers refuse to engage in that type of culture.

Tallulah Mayor Eddie Beckwith Jr. said the planned ConAgra Lamb Weston sweet potato processing plant near Delhi will provide an economic boost that will ripple throughout the Delta.

Ron Clark Academy co-founder and teacher Kim Bearden headlined the annual Burton School District "Welcome Back Breakfast" on Wednesday, sharing personal anecdotes from her career as a teacher and time as a student to motivate the assembled staff and faculty for the upcoming 2009-2010 school year.

'The same thing won't happen as it did last time,' St. John the Baptist Parish Council Chairman Ronnie Smith promised.

'The same thing won't happen as it did last time,' St. John the Baptist Parish Council Chairman Ronnie Smith promised.