Greenwood Commonwealth

12/17/2024

A carnival twist is coming to the Community Kitchen’s annual fundraiser.

12/17/2024

Adopt-A-Family still needs the community’s help to make a merrier Christmas for many area families.

Adopt-A-Family still needs the community’s help to make a merrier Christmas for many area families.

12/17/2024

Old-time Christmas

Patricia Gravlee, the Greenwood Convention and Visitors Bureau’s hospitality coordinator, helps 3-year-old Ezra Dallas make a s’more on Saturday during the Delta Dickens Christmas festival. (By Kevin Edwards, Copyright 2024 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.) Luke Quinn and his son, James, successfully h...

12/17/2024

With a number of veteran firefighters retiring over the last several years, Eliot Taylor represents the future of the Greenwood Fire Department.

12/17/2024

Crime report for 12/13-12/16

12/17/2024

The Leflore County boys basketball team placed three players in double figures en route to a 68-40 win over Amanda Elzy at Greenwood High’s gym Saturday.

12/17/2024

The Pillow Academy Lady Mustangs moved to 2-0 in District 1-5A play with a 37-30 win over visiting Starkville Academy Friday night.

12/17/2024

Editorial: Shad White, Lynn Fitch and Delbert Hosemann are tussling a couple of years before the real skirmish begins for the GOP nomination for governor.

12/17/2024

Op-ed: Luke K. Quinn says Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol" is a timely reminder of the need to make amends before it's too late.

12/17/2024

Glynice Malone Horne, 69, of Carrollton died Thursday, Dec. 14, 2024, at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.

12/17/2024

Stella Corley Wier, 92, passed away early Sunday morning, Dec. 15, 2025, at Golden Age nursing home with her family by her side.

12/16/2024

The Mississippi Legislature is expected to consider several ideas in 2025 that fall under the umbrella of school choice. What do you think about one of these ideas: providing state money to families that they could use to help pay the cost of attending a K-12 school other than the public school in which they live?

Click this URL to cast your vote.

12/14/2024

Crime report for 12/12-12/13

12/14/2024

As soon as Thanksgiving is over, I love going to the post office to see what Christmas cards are in the mail. Going to the post office isn’t as much fun after Christmas because you have all those Christmas bills!

As soon as Thanksgiving is over, I love going to the post office to see what Christmas cards are in the mail. Going to the post office isn’t as much fun after Christmas because you have all those Christmas bills!

12/14/2024

“A Christmas Carol,” the beloved holiday classic written by the English novelist credited with creating some of literature's most well-known fictional characters, was published on Dec. 19, 1843.

12/14/2024

The Greenwood Leflore Consolidated School District is up against the clock to remove asbestos from Claudine Brown Elementary School.

12/14/2024

Parents of a minor child are suing Twin Rivers Recreation Center, alleging the child was injured by a falling part of a batting cage while at the center last year.

12/14/2024

My Two Cents: Curressia Brown fires back at Kudzu King over Black History Month banner flap.