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Starkville isn’t the same old sleepy Starkville that most Mississippians knew 20 years ago
This is not your daddy’s sleepy, little college town.
For the past two decades, merchants in downtown Starkville have quietly transformed a city that was considered to be a poor third behind other Mississippi college towns such as Oxford and Hattiesburg.
No more.
Award-winning restaurants, boutique retail and other specialty shops and attractions are the rule rather than ...
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