Katie Eubanks
SOMETHING IS driving the members of North Ridge Church.
It’s driven them to start a second campus, now open on State Street behind Bank Plus in Fondren.
And it’s been driving...
GRADY HOWELL knows the exact date when he became a historian.
Go figure.
“It was July 3, 1955. I was eight years old, and it was the first time I’d seen Vicksburg,” Howell says.
“Before that...
Mona Nicholas is the president of the Friends of the USA International Ballet Competition (IBC), held in Jackson. A Vicksburg native who has danced all her life, Nicholas lives in Jackson with her husband, Chris, and two daughters. She recently...
RIDGELAND POLICE have made another prostitution arrest at the Red Roof Inn on Adcock Street, near I-55 and County Line Road.
At press time police said the woman, 55-year-old Feng Mei Zhang, was in the United States legally and they had...
THE MISSISSIPPI Department of Rehabilitation Services (MDRS) should have an additional building attached to its headquarters by this fall.
MDRS has occupied the existing facility, located at 1291 Highway 51 in Madison, for 20 years....
IF AMENDMENTS to Mississippi’s anti-human trafficking law pass the state Senate by today, March 14, and are signed by Gov. Phil Bryant, the law will have much-needed clarity and the seeds of a statewide effort to fight...
Guy Bowering just served his first term as the first Ward 6 alderman in the city of Madison. Ward 6 is largely comprised of an area west of I-55 that was annexed into the city in 2008. Bowering and his wife, Nancy, have lived in Madison since...
The City of Ridgeland will be constructing an extension to the multiuse trail system. Trace Ridge subdivision will be connected to an existing trail located on the east side of Highway 51 at Jackson Street. An asphalt path will be built along...
BIDS ARE DUE today on an aerial photography project that will likely save Madison County money.
Madison, Hinds, Rankin and 11 other counties are planning to go in together on the flyover photography, which they’ll use to update...
Nancy New is the founder and administrator of New Summit School in Jackson and executive director of New Learning Resources School District (NLRSD). She has worked in private education for more than 20 years and worked in public education for...
MORE THAN A quarter century ago, a group of evangelical Protestants in the metro area discovered the Orthodox faith.
They formed a Bible study and organized into St. Peter’s Antiochian Orthodox Church in 1976.
Now St....
Bertha Gordon is president of the Annandale Property Owners Association (APOA) at Annandale Estates. She and her husband, Dr. James Gordon, have lived in Annandale Estates for 14 years. They have six children and 12 grandchildren. Bertha Gordon...
Ken Hackman is president of the board of directors of the Center Players, a community theatre group that produces plays at the Madison Square Center for the Arts in downtown Madison. The Center Players will present “A Christmas Story...
IN SPRING 2010, the regional director of an organization called Young Life met with a few parents of Madison Central High School (MCHS) kids to talk about providing a fun, gospel-centered ministry for students in “the jungle...
Wilma Mosley Clopton is president of the board of directors of the Central Mississippi Steel Magnolias, an affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. A native Mississippian, Clopton lives in Jackson and is also a documentary filmmaker. She...
THE BACKBONE of Grace City Church in Jackson is not the Sunday-morning service. It’s community.
And now the growing church plant, which held its first official service two years ago, has a new full-time staff member devoted to...
Jim McAllister is president of the Reunion Property Owners Association (POA) in Madison. McAllister is retired from the Air Force and is a certified tennis pro at Reunion. He enjoys spending time with his longtime girlfriend and best friend,...
GERMANTOWN High will open its doors to about 200 more students this year than last, as enrollment grows at the year-old Gluckstadt school.
“[We’re growing] primarily because we’ve lost a small senior...
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
A LOWE’S-ANCHORED shopping center off County Line Road in Ridgeland still isn’t bringing in quite as many tax dollars as the city would like.
In December 2005, Ridgeland...
by KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
STUDENTS AND teachers will have no problem getting to school, and I-55 commuters have about a month before they all have to drive in the southbound lanes between Madison and Ridgeland....
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
THE CITY OF MADISON is combining three of its departments into one.
Economic development, community development, and building and permits will now be three divisions of one department...
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
WORK HAS BEGUN on a new, free standing Lee Michaels Fine Jewelry store at Renaissance at Colony Park in Ridgeland.
Plans call for the store to open in time for Valentine’s Day...
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
SEISMIC TESTING to be conducted in and around the city of Madison this fall will be a calm, non-intrusive process, officials with Denbury Resources said last week.
Representatives...
DESPITE LESS IN state funding, Madison County Schools 2012-2013 budget has no tax hike and a (small) pay raise for teachers.
Funding from the state has been reduced from $51 million to $46 million for the district,...
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
IF YOU BUILD IT, they will come.
In the case of the daycare facility at First Baptist Church of Ridgeland, people have come in droves – to the tune of more than 100 families on...
