🌱 How Yazoo City’s Willie Morris fits into Mississippi’s expanding Writers Trail

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• How Yazoo City’s Willie Morris fits into Mississippi’s expanding Writers Trail

Today's riddle: What did the inventor of the knock-knock joke win? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Friday: Partly sunny and very warm, with a high of 87 and low of 63 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Saturday: Cloudy, a t-storm in the p.m., temps: high: 82, low: 48.
• Sunday: Partly sunny and less humid, with a high of 71 and low of 44 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Bookstore Addition to Mississippi Writers Trail Surprises Owner at 50th Anniversary Event (mississippifreepress.org) — Yazoo City gets a nod in a new feature about Mississippi’s growing Writers Trail, which already includes a marker honoring hometown author Willie Morris. The story centers on Jackson’s Lemuria Books becoming the first bookstore added to the trail, highlighting how these markers celebrate Mississippi authors and draw readers to literary sites across the state.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday April 17

• Vintage market days
  Clyde Muse Center , 515 Country Pl Pkwy , Pearl
  10:00 am
• The Molly Ringwalds
  Martin's Livingston , 106 Livingston Church Rd , Flora
  5:00 pm
• PJHS Art Show - PJHS Library
  Pearl Junior High School , 200 Mary Ann Dr , Pearl
  5:00 pm
• Warren Central Vikings vs Canton Tigers
  Warren Central High School , 1000 MS-27 , Vicksburg
  5:00 pm
• 2026 Crawfish Music Festival (Friday Pass) with Bush
  Mississippi Coliseum , Livestock Barn (Dairy) , 1207 Mississippi St , Jackson
  5:00 pm
• Baseball (High School)
  Ridgeland
  5:00 pm
• Leake Central Gators vs Leake County Alligators
  McMillan Park , East , McMillian Park , Carthage
  6:00 pm
• Bored Teachers Comedy Tour
  Brandon City Hall , 1000 Municipal Dr , Brandon
  7:30 pm
• Bored Teachers
  Brandon City Hall , 1000 Municipal Dr , Brandon
  7:30 pm
• Bored Teachers: "Is It Friday Yet?!" Comedy Tour
  Brandon City Hall , 1000 Municipal Dr , Brandon
  7:30 pm
• When A Woman's Fed Up Stage Play-Greenwood, MS
  Leflore County Civic Center , 200 MS-7 , Greenwood
  7:30 pm

Saturday April 18

• Ausome Day In The Delta
  B.B. King Museum & Delta Interpretive Center - B.B. King grave , 400 2nd St , Indianola
  12:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• US Customs and Border Protection posted a job opening for Marine Interdiction Agent in Yazoo City. Apply here.
• Gpac posted a job opening for Maintenance Supervisor in Yazoo City. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Yazoo City here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Canton

• Ford Bronco Rival Nissan Xterra Also Developed With Aftermarket In Mind (fordauthority.com)
• Hinds CC President Emeritus Dr. Clyde Muse dies (wjtv.com)
• JFD makes arson arrests in two separate cases (wapt.com)

Madison

• Mississippi has some of worst food insecurity in US. See county data (clarionledger.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The NO-BELL prize (Thank you Gina M. for sending it in!)
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