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Officials with the Franciscan religious order announced Friday that St. Francis School, due to declining enrollment and increasing budget deficits, will be permanently shuttered after school lets out May 20.

St. Francis School is closing after more than 70 years
By TIM KALICH - Greenwood Commonwealth
Fri,05/13/22-12:00PM, 670 Reads 13,694 Statewide
Greenwood’s only Catholic school will be closing after more than 70 years of operation.
When St. Francis of Assisi School concludes its school year on May 20, it will be permanently shuttering an institution that has been educating mostly Black and Hispanic children since 1951.
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Dr. Arnold Smith, below, became wildly fixated on Lee Abraham, above -- an obsession that prosecutors claimed led to an unsuccessful assassination attempt on the Greenwood attorney in 2012. Smith has not had to face a criminal trial because of his mental illness and settled in 2019 a lawsuit filed by Abraham.

Trial might never happen for alleged murder-for-hire plot
By TIM KALICH - Greenwood Commonwealth
Wed,05/04/22-6:24AM, 1,244 Reads 81,998 Statewide
It had the makings of the trial of the century.
Dr. Arnold Smith, an eccentric but accomplished oncologist with a maniacal obsession about Lee Abraham, had been charged with hiring a felon to try to assassinate the Greenwood attorney, but the felon was gunned down instead.
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State returns to form on pot
By TIM KALICH - Greenwood Commonwealth
Wed,05/04/22-6:12AM, 253 Reads 63,876 Statewide
It was a bit of a shocker in 2020 when Mississippi voters, by a 3-to-1 margin, voted to legalize medical marijuana.
Given the conservative nature of this state, one might have thought that Mississippi would be the last one to go for medical marijuana, or at least that the vote would have been by a much narrower margin.
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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack is to announce $1 million grant for Greenwood Leflore Hospital Wednesday as part of tour of Delta. (By Associated Press)

Ag secretary to make grant announcement in Greenwood
By TIM KALICH - Greenwood Commonwealth
Wed,04/20/22-12:08PM, 339 Reads 12,762 Statewide
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack is expected to meet Wednesday with Greenwood government and hospital officials as part of his tour of the Mississippi Delta.
Vilsack, accompanied by U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson and White House Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice, is scheduled to arrive at Greenwood Leflore Hospital at noon.
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