September was the hottest on record across much of the Mid-South, according to the National Weather Service office in Memphis, Tennessee. The office said a relatively mild final week and a half was not enough to change the monthly record.
Jon Ross Myers founded Mississippi News Group in 2013. Before founding the organization, he worked at The Daily Mississippian, The Marion Salute and The Southern Sentinel. A Mississippi journalist and writer based in Ripley, he received second place in poetry in the 2025 William Faulkner Literary Competition for "The Garden."
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