With baseball and softball around the corner, let me just rant for a bit.

The MHS Lady Bulldogs are having a phenomenal season.

Monday afternoon, city and county officials, contractors, members of the public gathered in blistering temperatures for the ground-breaking of a resiliency hub.

By: Shelia Mader

The 2026 Grand Ridge basketball rec league is underway and proving after one night to be full of excitement.

Last week, the Marianna Bulldog Wrestlers made the trip to Jacksonville to participate in the Wolf Pack Challenge.

In the small rural community of Jackson County, there are names that immediately appear associated with an area of the county.

The Marianna High School girls’ basketball team is boasting an 8-6 records after they went one and one this past week.

The Cottondale Hornets opened their week on a big stage, earning a 51–46 win over the Holmes County Blue Devils.

The Marianna and Malone girls’ basketball teams had the opportunity to compete on a bigger stage as part of the Jackson County Optimist Shootout, an event that gave local teams the chance to play in a large arena setting, the Milton H. Johnson Center.

The Marianna girls soccer team closed out the 2025 portion of its season on a tough stretch, dropping back-to-back games heading into the holiday break.

In a world full of softies today, we hear an excuse for just about everything imaginable.

The 8 to 10-year-old Titans put together a season that will be talked about long after the grass has grown back over the cleat marks.

Creed Whitworth made it official last week in front of family, friends, and supporters from both Marianna and Sneads.