Most local garden centers are loaded with fresh bedding plants to give you months of cool-season color and splendor. Pansies, violas, snapdragons, dianthus, flowering kale, cabbage and a host of others are waiting for you to give them a home in your gardens.

A dinner dance to benefit the Mississippi Equine Rescue & Adoption organization will be held on Friday, November 6 at the Crystal Palace, 3036 MS Hwy 43 North at 7 p.m.

With Veterans Day next week, a number of events are being held to honor them including an exhibit, a luncheon, an Armed Services Reception, and a parade.

For every thing there is an opposite and that is the balance of the universe. Good has to have evil so we know the difference between the two.

When Tim Garrett arrived a little over a year ago to be the band director for Picayune Memorial High School, he didn’t fully realize the obstacles he was facing. Discovering only a handful of students still trying to hang on after several years of unstability in the program, he knew he’d have to dig his heels to make the band work. Students, frustrated with an ever-changing series of band directors — seven within the last four years — had dropped out of the band in droves.

When Misty Toruno received the news that she had Stage 3C ovarian cancer, her mind raced with all the implications of the diagnosis from the survival rate, to her family and friends, to all the side effects of chemotherapy. “I was most concerned with my hair,” said Misty, echoing the concerns of most women who undergo the treatment. “It is what makes me feel feminine, feel like a woman.”

Pearl River County Home Builders recently awarded an academic scholarship to Nicole Couch, a college freshman.

Jason Piglia and Ashlyn Watts practice a scene from the one-act play - “Talking Bird.”