Mark H. Stowers

This year produced strong commodity prices and good yields   By mid-summer, the Mississippi Delta’s 2026 growing season looked as if it might become anoth

GOODMAN, Miss. – Mississippi Delta brought the fireworks to someone else’s homecoming.The Trojans built a 24-point lead, scored seven touchdowns and needed nearly every point Thursday to leave Ras Branch Stadium with a 52-47 victory over Holmes…

There are people you don’t think about. I don’t mean that in a mean or disrespectful way. There are folks that are just always there. So much so that they are just part of the foundation, part of the fabric, part of the landscape. Doing their thing that they always do and have always done.

Coahoma finds their first Win, Spoiling Trojans 100th Anniversary Homecoming, 35-23

The latest fundraising record pushed the festival’s total charitable giving since 1998 past $8.5 million

The latest fundraising record pushed the festival’s total charitable giving since 1998 past $8.5 million

The fish fry in heaven just got a whole lot bigger. And the baseball team got a new coach.

Much like a brand new used card driving off the lot, all was fine.

On a warm Michigan evening, just after the sky turns cobalt and before the mosquitoes lay their claim to the summer air, a familiar spark appears. Then another. Then a dozen. To children, fireflies are summer’s smallest fireworks bringing smiles and laughter and wonderment. To scientists, they are beetles in the family Lampyridae, insects with complicated courtship codes, surprisingly predatory young, and life cycles tied to soil moisture, wetland edges, dark nights, and the slow work of leaves…

Senatobia, Miss. – Mississippi Delta Community College ran into a tough road test Thursday night, falling 42-0 to Northwest Mississippi Community College in a North Division matchup at Bobby Franklin Field. The Trojans entered the night looking to…

It had all the look and feel of “The New Delta” but late turnovers and a bending defense that broke at times knocked the shine off the newness. The 41-24 road loss put the Mississippi Delta Community College Trojans at 1-2 on the young 2026 season and Southwest picked up their first win to match the Trojans at 1-2.

By Mark H. Stowers

By the time Mississippi Delta manufacturers, hospitals, schools and small businesses describe their hiring problems, the causes sound familiar – not enough people, not enough trained workers, wages that don’t always compete, limited housing, transportation gaps, childcare needs and the long-running difficulties of growing a rural economy.

Trojans Pick Off Nationally Ranked ##8 Co-Lin in Season Opener

I was feeling nostalgic while on Facebook and posted on the Delta Magazine page that I created years ago and posed the question, …August in the Delta…favorite memories? Immediately, folks started chiming in and liking a few things. The aroma of cotton defoliation right before dove season was first in, followed by “every Delta sunset.

After two big wins, the North Sunflower Lady Rebels dropped three games, a 12-5 loss to Lee Academy (Arkansas), a 10-0 defeat at the hands of Marvell Academy and then a 15-10 road loss to Humphreys Academy this past Tuesday.

He’s a new face on the Statesmen sidelines – but a familiar one in the Gulf South Conference. David Dean, the 20th head coach in program history, took over for Todd Cooley, who moved north to Oxford to complete the green-and-white transition at Ole Miss with head coach and former Statesmen player Pete Golding.

Most of the classrooms I’ve sat in were a minimum of 30 years old, some were close to 100 and others had more history than you can shake a stick at. Filled with desks and fluorescent lights and tile floors that had seen better days, there wasn’t much going on to inspire other than the teacher up front trying to drill something into us that would benefit us.

The festival runs Friday, Sept. 4, through Monday, Sept. 7, and will feature more than 200 performances across multiple stages, including more than 100 acts making their festival debut.

The festival runs Friday, Sept. 4, through Monday, Sept. 7, and will feature more than 200 performances across multiple stages, including more than 100 acts making their festival debut.