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September 24, 2026

Magnolia, Mississippi

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  • Twists & Turns: Choices We Make

    GOOD CHOICES: (USU-ALLY THE HARDEST ROAD) Be nice to people. Even if they aren’t always nice to you. Just remember: What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get to see it happen. Be careful how you spend your...

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  • Felder's Ornamental Edibles

    Maybe I’ve been exposed to too many great ideas at flowers shows and botanic gardens around the world, but traditional ways of sorting plants by genre are blurred to me. I don’t see veggies, fruits, and herbs as...

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  • Terry's Creek News

    CATHERINE BROWN Terry’s Creek News Last Sunday morning the Terry’s Creek Church congregation at Percy Quin State Park at the Wayside Chapel to share with the campers and visitors at the Park in a time of singing...

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  • Oxford and Starkville

    This isn’t a matter to be settled by the Egg Bowl or a spring baseball series. There’s bigger fish to fry on this question than intercollegiate athletics. Oxford v. Starkville. Starkville v. Oxford. Which is the...

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  • A Spring Dinner Party (or Family Meal) Is Easier Than You Think

    Thursday, May 15, 2025 Page A3 MAGNOLIA GAZETTE It doesn’t take much to impress me. In fact, I’m often inspired by the simplest things. Take a video I watched this week of a cookbook author preparing four simple...

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  • Listen to Understand

    Listen to Understand by Daniel Gardner, Special to the Gazette Jesus said, “Take care what you listen to. By your standard of measure it shall be measured to you; and more shall be given you besides.” ---Mark 4:24...

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  • Tariff Folly

    Last month, President Donald Trump proudly announced, “Liberation Day! ... The day American industry was reborn!” Reborn because of his tariffs, which he called, “the most beautiful word in the dictionary.” This...

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  • Felder's Bounty

    Pardon my sticky fingers as I write this week’s column, but I’ve been eating a fresh fried apple pie I got from a family that grew the apples themselves and made the sweet treat in their own kitchen. With no...

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  • Spring and Summer Salads

    When I say “salads are spring/summer survival food,” I’m not referring to pale leaves of iceberg lettuce topped with a few shakes of tasteless low or no-fat dressing. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think a...

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  • Jesus and People Like Us

    Jesus and people like us by Daniel Gardner, Special to the Gazette We were talking the other day and he said, “I have to say, our society has changed dramatically since the first decade of this century. It is a very...

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  • Useless Government

    ~Opinion/Editorial~ EDITORIAL I have a conflict. I don’t much like Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump’s new Education Secretary. I sued her once. She and her sleazy husband, Vince, owned a circus called World...

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  • Felder's Turf Turn

    The pendulum is swinging back towards lawn moderation. Our national obsessional experiment with lawn perfection, fueled by horticultural, social, and marketing blitzes, is slowing down. During the advent of herbicides...

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  • My Crockpot Addiction is Getting Out of Hand

    Just when I thought I had more than enough Crockpots, I was drawn back in. I’m blaming it on an ad proclaiming the GreenPot, a fancy name for a multiuse Crockpot, could perform 8 miraculous tasks: slow cook, sauté,...

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  • Trump's Second First 100 Days

    by Daniel Gardner, Special to the Gazette President Trump’s first 100 days of his second term ends on April 29, 2025. How has he fared? The RealClearPolitics Poll Average of 16 polls rates President Trump 45.4%...

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  • Good Intentions: Bad Results

    EDITORIAL G o v e r n m e n t makes most things worse. Lyndon Johnson launched a War on Poverty; Richard Nixon a War on Drugs. Both had good intentions, but their “wars” do more harm than good. I believed the War on...

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  • NIL Changed the Game, But Not Everyone's Cheering in the Stands Down South

    “The” Ohio State University, with a star running back first nurtured at Ole Miss, won the most recent college football national championship. It seems eons ago. Recruiting is mostly over for the moment, but it never...

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  • Granny's Swinging Baskets Beat Babylon

    The Hanging Gardens of Babylon may have kept King Nebuchadnezzar’s wife happy but couldn’t hold a candle to my grandmother’s home-made “swinging baskets.” Suspended containers, whether hung with wire, set...

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  • Dip (I Don't Mean Swimming) Season is Almost Here

    It’s spring, which means summer is on the horizon. As soon as warm weather arrives, pool parties, cookouts and other social events offer the perfect opportunity to serve chips, crackers, sliced vegetables – well,...

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  • Who is standing for life?

    Who is standing for life? by Daniel Gardner, Special to the Gazette Celebrating the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ in remembrance of God’s amazing love for us inevitably draws my thoughts to...

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  • Living Hell?

    by John Stossel Who is standing for life? by Daniel Gardner, Special to the Gazette Celebrating the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ in remembrance of God’s amazing love for us inevitably draws...

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  • Remembering Artist L.V. Hull: A Legend in Her Own Time

    In a guidebook for German tourists visiting Mississippi, her white frame house on Allen Street in Kosciusko was listed #2 just below Elvis’ birthplace. And for tourists and locals alike, she unashamedly relished her...

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  • Felder's Journey

    Gardening doesn’t have to be a horticultural challenge; it can be as much the trip as a Sisyphean list of chores. This seasoned gardener was raised by older women, all of whom had “been there, done that” and by...

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  • Terry's Creek News

    CATHERINE BROWN Terry’s Creek News Blessings were ours to receive as we met to worship our Lord last Sunday. Bro. Kent Campbell welcomed everyone and shared the announcements for the coming week. Then the children...

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  • Making Chicken Cutlets Great Again

    Chicken cutlets have taken over my life or at least, my kitchen. It started with my usual selection at Mario’s in Hattiesburg chicken parmesan, of course. Then I began seeing recipes for chicken cutlets everywhere....

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