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Mary Ann Plasencia is Northeast Mississippi Habitat for Humanityâs new executive director. She takes over the leadership role with an extensive nonprofit background and believes her experience in helping others will help put more people in homes.
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TUPELO ⢠Mason Cordell, a seventh grader at Tupelo Middle School, won the Tupelo Public School District/Lee County Spelling Bee on Thursday afternoon.
Cordellâs winning word was âarcane,â defined as something âknown or knowable only to a few people,â which seems fitting.
Eleven participants sat socially distanced on the stage of the TMS Civic Auditorium with face masks as the bee started. Each child was allowed to pull their mask down as they approached the microphone so that the judges could hear them clearly as they spelled.
The event typically includes Lee County School District students, but the district chose not to take part in the countywide spelling bee this year. As a result, Cordell will go on to represent the district and county in the state spelling bee this spring.
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Cloey Montgomery, a third grader at Pierce Street Elementary School in Tupelo, receives a new backpack filled with supplies from Keila Glenn, a chairperson with Tupelo alumnae chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority on Wednesday. Delta Sigma Theta distributed more than 40 backpacks to Plantersville Middle School and Pierce Street Elementary on Wednesday. The purpose of the event is to equip students with the tools they need to continue learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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