2022 Lafayette County election results
Lafayette County held it's midterm elections on Tuesday, Nov. 8. Here are the results. 1st Congressional District US House of ...
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Lafayette County Detention Center makes facility updates
The Lafayette County Detention Center is making improvements including the installation of money and educational kiosks and the building of ...
Lafayette County meets and exceeds 50% fully vaccinated
As new daily COVID-19 cases fall, vaccination rates continue to rise in Lafayette County. Last week, the county reached a ...
‘It doesn’t represent me’: Mohawk, a 63-year-old veteran, has protested the Confederate monument for weeks
Amid the bustle of a football game weekend, a crowd gathered last Saturday in front of the Confederate monument on ...
Community members gather on Square to protest Confederate monument
Members of the Oxford community marched in front of the confederate statue on the Square on Saturday. The Lafayette County ...
Board of Aldermen has no plans to move Confederate monument from the Square
A Confederate statue stands in front of the courthouse on the Square. Photo by Billy Schuerman At this week’s Board ...
Lafayette County sees record voter registration numbers as it returns to paper ballots for the 2020 election
There are 18 polling locations in Lafayette County, 5 of which are within City of Oxford Limits. All 18 voting ...
Citizens project ‘TAKE IT DOWN’ onto the Lafayette County Courthouse Confederate monument
Two men used a projector mounted on their car to cast the words “Take it down” onto the Confederate monument ...
Elwood Higginbottom’s family helps unveil Lafayette County lynching memorial
Filling the wooden pews that line the sanctuary of Second Baptist Church on Jackson Ave., a sea of black and ...
Opinion: Oxford’s no-kill shelter is a step in the right direction
On Oct. 1, Mississippi Critterz, Oxford’s first no-kill animal shelter in almost three decades was established. The shelter, which currently ...
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