{"id":155332,"date":"2026-02-05T18:39:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T00:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=155332"},"modified":"2026-02-05T19:54:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T01:54:26","slug":"photo-of-the-week-clean-up-in-lafayette-county-after-ice-storm-fern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/photo-of-the-week-clean-up-in-lafayette-county-after-ice-storm-fern\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the Week: &#8220;Clean Up in Lafayette County after Ice Storm Fern&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260129_101823-scaled.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260129_101823-1024x473.jpg?resize=640%2C296&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-155333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260129_101823-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C473&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260129_101823-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C139&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260129_101823-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C355&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260129_101823-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C710&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260129_101823-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C946&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260129_101823-scaled.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260129_101823-scaled.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Left to Right: <strong>Jesse Robinson, Jesse Mattson<\/strong> (with <strong>Beef<\/strong>), and <strong>Mitch Olsen<\/strong> from <strong>Mattson Landscaping Company<\/strong> of <strong>Gleason, Wisconsin<\/strong>, with <strong>Fernando Membreno<\/strong> and <strong>Justin Vasquez<\/strong> from <strong>Top Quality Tree Experts<\/strong> of <strong>Houston, Texas<\/strong>. Both companies are subcontractors of the <strong>Lufkin Environmental Tree Removal Company<\/strong> who are assisting in the cleanup of <strong>Lafayette County, Mississippi<\/strong> after devastating <strong>Ice Storm Fern<\/strong> January 24 and 25, 2026. These workers are pictured here on <strong>County Road 225<\/strong>. The crews will be in the area for many more weeks assisting with recovery efforts. Photograph by <strong>Newt Rayburn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/topqualitytreeexperts.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-TopQualityTreeExperts-BC-03-1-896x1024.jpg?resize=640%2C731&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-155337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-TopQualityTreeExperts-BC-03-1-scaled.jpg?resize=896%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 896w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-TopQualityTreeExperts-BC-03-1-scaled.jpg?resize=262%2C300&amp;ssl=1 262w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-TopQualityTreeExperts-BC-03-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C878&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-TopQualityTreeExperts-BC-03-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1344%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1344w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-TopQualityTreeExperts-BC-03-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1791%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1791w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-TopQualityTreeExperts-BC-03-1-scaled.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2026-TopQualityTreeExperts-BC-03-1-scaled.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left to Right: Jesse Robinson, Jesse Mattson (with Beef), and Mitch Olsen from Mattson Landscaping Company of Gleason,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":155333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33359],"tags":[33597,31953,33600,2918,33596,33595,256,33593,33599,5,33598,15,792,33594],"class_list":["post-155332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photograph-of-the-week","tag-beef","tag-county-road-225","tag-gleason","tag-houston","tag-jesse-mattson","tag-jesse-robinson","tag-lafayette-county","tag-lufkin-environmental-tree-removal-company","tag-mattson-landscaping-company","tag-mississippi","tag-mitch-olsen","tag-newt-rayburn","tag-texas","tag-top-quality-tree-experts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260129_101823-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1183&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155332"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155338,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155332\/revisions\/155338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}