Stories from Wednesday, September 1, 2021

BLUE SPRINGS, Miss. - Jimmy Lloyd Costin, M.D., 74, died Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. The youngest son of Carl Clyde Costin and Helen Louise Mosley Costin, he was born Feb. 28, 1947 in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. ...

An annual event celebrating history in Wayne County will mark its 30th anniversary this year. Old Greenville Days will be held Friday, Sept. 17 through Sunday, Sept. 19, according to a press release from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This free event will be held in the Greenville Day Use Area adjacent to the Greenville Ca.m.pground, just two miles south of Greenville, on U.S. ...

A few seats are left for Haven House’s 35th Anniversary Gala to be held on Saturday, Sept. 11. The gala was initially scheduled for March 2020, but Executive Director Mary Ann Allen explained, “the pandemic hit and we made the decision to postpone the event.”...

One of the lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic will be an additional option to qualify as a substitute teacher. The State Board of Education temporarily provided the new option during 2020, when schools faced a larger than normal deficit in subs...