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The Long Family 94th Annual Reunion

The Long Family 94th Annual Reunion

You are invited to attend the Descendants of Rev. William Preston Long and Adeline Melinda Harris Long on May 20, for the 94rd Annual Reunion.

It will be held at the Moselle Community Center in Moselle at 9:30 am. Rev. Long was a Methodist Circuit Rider in Covington, Smith, Jasper, Kemper, Lauderdale, and Jones counties.

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Walk-in’s are welcome Appointments recommended.
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10K RUN/WALK, May 26

10K RUN/WALK, May 26

PRCC graduates hear praise, advice from lieutenant governor

PRCC graduates hear praise, advice from lieutenant governor

The following is a press release from Pearl River Community College:

Family and friends packed the Forrest County Multi Purpose Center, May 15, to see 525 students become graduates of Pearl River Community College.

The graduates received associate’s degrees or certificates of proficiency from Dr. William Lewis, PRCC president, who reminded them their education has not come to an end.

“Please do not forget that education is a life-long process,” he said.

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Hogan presented with honorary degree

Hogan presented with honorary degree

Dr. Tommy King (left), president of William Carey University, presented Rev. Leland Hogan with an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree during the university’s commencement ceremonies on May 12. Rev. Hogan has served in the ministry for nearly 70 years and has been the pastor of Carterville Baptist Church in Petal for 43 years. In 2011, he was named the Distinguished Alumnus from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary for his seven decades in ministry.

Try Million Bells in landscape, containers

Try Million Bells in landscape, containers

By Gary R. Bachman
MSU Horticulturist
Coastal Research & Extension Center

Million Bells is one of my favorite flowering plants in the early summer. I think you’ll find this plant to be a good choice for the summer landscape in your Mississippi garden.

Million Bells are known botanically as Calibrachoa, and you may see them called by either name in garden centers. Regardless of what name they go by, you need to have some of these garden performers in your landscape.