Ernest Herndon | The Enterprise Journal

Home

- A 1914 photo of Bewelcome store and post office.
premium content - for subscribers only
Click to subscribe

Remembering Bewelcome, other country stores
By ERNEST HERNDON - Outdoors Editor
Sat,07/23/22-6:00AM , 1,633 Reads
Bewelcome — it’s hard to imagine a more fetching name for a rural community.
Click Here to Read More

- Ranger Shaun Williamson stands by the lowered lake.
free content

Okhissa midway through drawdown project
By ERNEST HERNDON - Outdoors Editor
Sat,07/16/22-6:00AM , 1,834 Reads
When Okhissa Lake closed last November for a drawdown, Homochitto National Forest Ranger Shaun Williamson had two main goals: improve fisheries and knock back invasive plants.
Now, halfway through the project, he said it’s proving to be a success.
Click Here to Read More

- Sailors carry the casket of Russell Melton, who was killed at Pearl Harbor, our of Mount Pleasant Baptist Church following a funeral Saturday. (Ernest Herndon | Enterprise-Journal)
premium content - for subscribers only
Click to subscribe

Pearl Harbor victim celebrated as hero at funeral
By ERNEST HERNDON - STAFF WRITER
Mon,07/11/22-10:38AM , 2,585 Reads
In May 1940, Russell Melton of Amite County went to New Orleans to join the Navy. On July 7, 2022, he returned to New Orleans in a casket, killed aboard the USS West Virginia at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, his remains identified last year. And on Saturday he was buried at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church Cemetery outside Gloster.
Click Here to Read More

free content

Enter the heron: Birds good at thinning snakes
By ERNEST HERNDON - Outdoors Editor
Sat,07/09/22-6:00AM , 1,444 Reads
This spring it looked like my pond was being taken over by snakes — nonvenomous gray water snakes, but snakes nonetheless.
My pond is tiny, maybe a quarter acre, so critters are fairly easy to see, though they do have good cover among the Louisiana irises, cypress limbs and other foliage.
Click Here to Read More

Subscribe to Ernest Herndon