Verona News

The GumTree Festival has seen the guys in Paper Blues go from boys to men. Mitch Presley, Justin Hughes and Ryan Culp started playing music together in the Tupelo High School band Structure, which performed at the GumTree Festival on the youth stage in years past.

The Northeast Mississippi Rose Society will meet Monday at 6 p.m. at the North Mississippi Research and Extension Service in Verona.

By JB Clark/NEMS Daily Journal Update 8:44 p.m. Police responded to the scene of two people who were stabbed at the parking lot of the Nest Apartments on Raymond Avenue in Verona.

Voters will be asked in the June 4 general election to vote between a mayor with a proven track record and a 32-year resident calling for change in the city's atmosphere and town hall.

The atmosphere was bittersweet Thursday afternoon at the Lee County School District's annual reception for retiring faculty.

In the southwest part of the city, residents like to get involved in the community.

Of three ricin-laced letters mailed this month to public officials, only one made it into the hands of an intended target, 80-year-old Mississippi judge Sadie Holland.

Ward 3 Tupelo City Council candidates Liz Dawson and Jim Newell just can't agree on the definition of "negative." She says he's so negative.