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Make sure to pick up a copy of the Kemper County Messenger tomorrow (3/24)
03/23/2022

Make sure to pick up a copy of the Kemper County Messenger tomorrow (3/24)

02/23/2022

The Feb. 24 edition of the Kemper County Messenger should be arriving at our vendors by 5 p.m. today (Wednesday)

HERE IS WHAT YOU WILL FIND:

— 20 articles, as well as 2 Obituaries, Community Calendar, Looking Back feature, Arrest Report, Photos From The Past, Kid’s Page, and classifieds/legals page.

—24 Photos

— 40 separate advertisements, plus an insert from Pilgrim’s Foodliner.

— Multiple Job opportunities

Here is where you can buy a copy on the newsstand: Latimer’s Grocery, Preston Pit Stop, Preston General Store, SASE, Gas 4 Less, Pilgrim’s Grocery, Tooney’s, Exxon, Cefco, Handy Mart, DeKalb Dollar General, Kemper Farm Supply, and Daleville Grocery.

PLEASE SHARE WITH OTHERS!

02/17/2022

By Laurence Hilliard
Kemper County Messenger

The Mississippi High School Activities Association is considering adding a seventh classification for sports. The MHSAA executive board discussed the proposal at its February meeting, but tabled action with a possible vote in April.
MHSAA executive director Rickey Neaves said the proposal results from a gap in enrollment figures between the largest and smallest schools in each class. The gap is especially pronounced in 6A, the largest class. Based on 9th through 12th grade enrollment figures for the current two-year period (2021-23), Tupelo is the largest 6A school with 1,907 students, Center Hill the smallest with 1,047, a gap of 860 students (82 percent).
PICK UP A COPY OF THE FEB. 17 EDITION OF THE KEMPER COUNTY MESSENGER TO READ MORE.

02/17/2022

By Austin Bishop
Kemper County Messenger

A dream will be coming true for Kemper Academy senior Avery Luke when she takes the field next fall for practice as a member of the East Mississippi Community College softball team.
Luke, who had an outstanding career for the Lady Rams, recently signed a scholarship to continue her athletic career with the Lady Lions.
PICK UP A COPY OF THE FEB. 17 EDITION OF THE KEMPER COUNTY MESSENGER TO READ THIS ARTICLE, AS WELL AS 27 MORE!

02/17/2022

By Carolyn Palmer
Local Columnist

Kemper County: What do you see as you ride around home? The Good, the Bad, or the Ugly? What do you focus on? The bad and ugly -litter, unkept yards, drug activities, etc.? All of these we need to be concerned about, but there's so much to focus on.
PICK UP A COPY OF THE FEB. 17 ISSUE OF THE KEMPER COUNTY MESSENGER TO READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE, AS WELL AS 27 OTHERS.

02/17/2022

By Austin Bishop
Kemper County Messenger

Despite delays in getting the needed supplies in a timely manner, the construction of the water and sewer lines from the Town of DeKalb to the Kemper Crossing industrial park is expected to begin on March 14.
Zach Adams of the Board of Supervisors said that the order to proceed would be given to the contractor on March 14 and they would have 180 days (six months) to compete the project.
FOR MORE ON THIS STORY AND 27 MORE PICK UP A COPY OF THE FEB. 17 EDITION OF THE MESSENGER.

02/17/2022

Here are some of this week’s headlines in The Kemper County Messenger:

CONTRABAND REMAINS PROBLEM AT CORRECTIONAL FACILITY

KCUE EARNS GROWTH AWARD

LADY WILDCATS ADVANCE TO SECOND ROUND

JACKSON CONTINUES FAMILY MILITARY TRADITION

ELDRIDGE JOINS BAND DIRECTOR’S HALL OF FAME

KEMPER COUNTY SEWER, WATER PROJECT TO BEGIN MARCH 14

MHSAA CONSIDERS MOVE TO SEVEN CLASSIFICATIONS

KA’S LUKE SIGNS WITH EMCC

PREPARING TO EXPERIENCE GOD’S BLESSINGS

SEED FOR FOOD PLOTS AVAILABLE FOR OUTDOORS ENTHUSIASTS

EFFECTS OF LACK OF SLEEP ON THE BODY

JADON AND THE ‘SUICIDE DOOR’

Here is where you can buy a copy on the newsstand: Latimer’s Grocery, Preston Pit Stop, Preston General Store, SASE, Gas 4 Less, Pilgrim’s Grocery, Tooney’s, Exxon, Cefco, Handy Mart, DeKalb Dollar General, Kemper Farm Supply, and Daleville Grocery.

02/17/2022

Be sure to pick up this week’s issue of The Kemper County Messenger.

HERE IS WHAT YOU WILL FIND:

— 28 articles, as well as 2 Obituaries, Community Calendar, Arrest Report, Photos From The Past, and the Kid’s Page.

—28 Photos

— 37 separate advertisements, plus an insert from Pilgrim’s Foodliner.

Here is where you can buy a copy on the newsstand: Latimer’s Grocery, Preston Pit Stop, Preston General Store, SASE, Gas 4 Less, Pilgrim’s Grocery, Tooney’s, Exxon, Cefco, Handy Mart, DeKalb Dollar General, Kemper Farm Supply, and Daleville Grocery.

02/11/2022

Here is what you are missing if you haven’t picked up the Feb. 10 edition of The Kemper County Messenger:

— 24 Articles of Local interest
— 34 Photos
— This Week’s Pilgrim’s Grocery Insert
— 33 Advertisements
— 2 Obituaries
— Community Calendar
— Weekly Arrest Report
— The Kid’s Page

PICK UP YOUR COPY OF THE KEMPER COUNTY MESSENGER TODAY!!!

02/11/2022

Kemper County’s unemployment rate was 4.4 percent for December 2021, according to figures from the Mississippi Department of Employment Security.
READ THIS STORY IN DETAIL BY PICKING UP A COPY OF THE FEB. 10 EDITION OF THE KEMPER COUNTY MESSENGER TODAY.!

02/11/2022

20 years now, where’d they go?
20 years, I don’t know …
I sit and I wonder sometimes
Where they’ve gone …

The fella on the right in the picture above was 9 months old when my daddy left this world on Feb. 4, 2002.
There are a lot of things I wish my daughter Meagan and son Jordan could have gotten to experience with him. For example, I think both of them (and every other baseball or softball playing child in rural Mississippi) should have to field some of his ground balls in PawPaw’s gravel driveway …
I can only imagine how some of the folks around Gholson would have grown tired of Daddy bragging on Meagan’s state softball championships. But as much as anything, I hate that Jordan never got to go to the woods with him.
DON'T MISS OUT ON ROCKY HIGGINBOTHAM'S FASCINATING COLUMN IN THE FEB. 10 EDITION OF THE MESSENGER. PICK UP YOUR COPY TODYA!!!!!

02/11/2022

After a short conversation with differences of opinions being shared, the Kemper County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to lift the mandate it instituted in January requiring masks to be worn on county property.
READ THIS FULL STORY BY PICKING UP A COPY OF THE Feb. 19 EDITION OF THE KEMPER COUNTY MESSENGER.

02/11/2022

Last Wednesday (Feb. 2) was a big day for Kemper County High School athletics as a whole and a half-dozen senior football players in particular.
Six members of the KCHS football team gathered in the KCHS gymnasium to sign football scholarships for the 2012-13 school year.
“It was a tremendously big day for us,” said KCHS defensive coordinator Andrew Powell. “It just shows the work that we put in and the kind of kids that we have. We have the kind of kids who can do great things in Kemper.”
Five athletes signed with community colleges, while one signed with an NCAA Division I program. Those signing were E.J. Jackson, Jamar Grace, Heaven Coleman, Kessler Thompson, Aaron Steele, and Junior Miller.
PICK UP THE FEB. 10 EDITION OF THE KEMPER COUNTY MESSENGER TO READ MORE OF THIS STORY.

02/11/2022

Kemper Academy, as a member of the Mid-South Association of Independent Schools, is required to go through an accreditation process every five years, and week before last the school completed the process and received their accreditation. Headmistress, Mary Ellen Waters, stated that six years had passed since the last accreditation, due to the COVID outbreak.
READ MORE ABOUT THIS IN THE FEB.10 EDITION OF THE KEMPER COUNTY MESSENGER.

12/16/2021

Don't forget to get a Kemper Messenger today and see some of the Letters to Santa! 🎄

11/24/2021

By Austin Bishop
Kemper County Messenger

Noxubee County Attorney Rod Hickman claimed 60 percent of the vote across four counties to win the special election run-off for the District 32 Mississippi State Senate senate vacated with the retirement of longtime Senator Sampson Jackson of Kemper County.
In complete but unofficial results, Hickman took 4,302 votes to 2898 for Dr. Minh Duong a Meridian Optometrist.
Three weeks ago there were just under 7,000 votes cast in the general election which featured nine candidates for the remaining two-years on Jackson’s unexpired term,, but there were 7,200 cast in Tuesday night’s run-off, an increase of just over 200.
Hickman picked up 1,222 votes in Kemper County, while Duong received 775. There are 1,997 votes cast in Kemper County compared to 2,364 cast on Nov. 2.
In the Nov. 2 election Hickman led districtwide with 1,677 votes for 24 percent, with Duong finishing just behind with 1,611 votes for 23 percent.
The District 32 Senate Senate seat will be on the ballot again in 2023 in the state and county elections that are held every four years.
District 32 is made up of all of Kemper County and parts of Lauderdale, Noxubee, and Winston counties.

The Kemper Messenger will be doing "Congratulations/Best Wishes" for the upcoming basketball season for Kemper County Hi...
11/08/2021

The Kemper Messenger will be doing "Congratulations/Best Wishes" for the upcoming basketball season for Kemper County High, Kemper Academy, and EMCC. If anyone is interested in placing an ad please call 601-743-5760, email office@kempercountymessenger com, or come by our office. Only $25 you can place it for a single player, the whole team, the whole school, or all 3 schools.
Thanks again for helping to make the Kemper County Messenger great!

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