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    Bonding company repays Indianola

    By STAFF REPORTS - The Enterprise-Tocsin
    Thu,04/02/26-9:46AM , 478 Reads 9,742 Statewide

    The bonding company acting as guarantor for three former Indianola aldermen has agreed to pay nearly $44,000 owed to the city for a 2023 improper payout to a local contractor.

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  • Chrissi Papworth set working with wind tunnels as a career goal while still a student at Mississippi State University. She now works for NASA on the Artemis mission with the Space Launch System. Here she is standing outside the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnels at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.

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    Chrissi Papworth: Shooting for the stars

    By DAVID MONROE - Leflore Illustrated
    Wed,04/01/26-12:24PM , 544 Reads 11,221 Statewide

    Editor's Note: This story appeared in the Fall 2022 edition of Leflore Illustrated. It is being republished on our website today, as Carroll Academy graduate Chrissi Papworth was on the crew that helped build the Artemis that will launch Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. central time.

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    Teacher pay not as poor as portrayed

    Wed,04/01/26-1:00PM , 612 Reads 9,554 Statewide

    Early in the 2026 legislative session, Mississippi public school teachers were led to believe that a big raise was coming.

    The House passed a bill to give all full-time teachers a $5,000 bump, roughly a 10% increase in pay. The Senate countered with a larger increase, $6,000, but spread over three years.

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  • Photo by Nell Luter Floyd, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
    Euclid Avenue in the Belhaven district is one of many streets the commission has allocated funding for repavement.

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    No action by city stalling road work according to commission

    By NELL LUTER FLOYD - Sun Staff Writer
    Fri,04/03/26-8:00AM , 524 Reads

    The One Percent Sales Tax Commission obligated funding last fall and earlier this year for repaving more neighborhood streets in Jackson.
    None of the work has started, however, because the city of Jackson has not taken the steps it must do so paving can begin.

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Born in Knoxville, Tenn. on November 5, 1938, to W.E. and Katherine Plunkett, Barbara graduated from Tupelo High School and attended "The W" (Mississippi University for Women). She enjoyed life, family and friends while living in Mississippi, Indiana and Texas.

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