DeSoto County News

The City of Olive Branch announced that McKinnon Skeen has joined its Parks and Recreation Department, Mayor Ken Adams and the Board of Aldermen said.

Forecasters say multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms will hit parts of the Mid-South Wednesday, with damaging winds the primary threat and large hail and flash flooding possible.

Organizers said HYPE will hold a Thursday networking event in the Hernando area for people 45 or younger to meet entrepreneurs, business leaders and other young professionals over coffee.

The Lewis Ranch Experience said it “fondly remembers” Dolly Parton and shared footage of a 1988 duet with Jerry Lee Lewis.

The Olive Branch Police Department announced a 10-week Citizen Police Academy beginning Sept. 3 that will include hands-on demonstrations and classes for residents, the department said.

The Southaven Chamber of Commerce invites members to a networking event Friday at 8 a.m., sponsored by Cruise Planners and Ethnos Coffee Central.

DeSoto County Government said a new recycling dumpster has been placed behind Southaven Intermediate School at 175 Rasco Road after a bin at Stowewood was removed for contamination.