Katie Eubanks
GERMANTOWN Middle School and The Veritas School are welcoming a new principal and a new headmaster in time for the fall semester.
At Germantown Middle, located in Gluckstadt, former Madison Central assistant principal Richard Burge...
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
THE MAYORS OF Madison and Ridgeland are pleased with how the Madison County Board of Supervisors has allocated $6 million the county will receive from its settlement with the Mississippi...
Austin Brown is the new head principal at Madison Central High School. He was an assistant principal at MCHS for five years and previously taught history there for five years before spending last year as head principal of Sumner Hill Junior...
ST. DOMINIC’S hopes to have grass practice fields finished later this summer and a sports training center built by the end of the year at its sports and recreation complex north of Madison.
Three graded practice fields to be used...
by KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
DESPITE A THREE PERCENT jump in Madison County’s total assessed value this year, supervisors say the coming year’s budget will still be a challenge.
“This...
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
WORK ON A new playground at Freedom Ridge Park in Ridgeland should start any day now, Recreation and Parks Director Chris Chance said.
Officials awarded the bid for the playground two...
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
THE FIRST BIT of milestone work on the new I-55 interchange in Madison and Ridgeland should be done right around the August 3 deadline, one official said.
“It’s going to...
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
A PROPOSED LANDFILL in south Madison County might not be dead, but it appears to be mostly dead for now.
Last week the permit board for the Mississippi Department for Environmental...
AS WE FLOATED off the grassy field, the man in the basket with me feigned surprise and said, “Uh oh! What do we do now?”
I’d met the hot-air balloon pilot - a tall, thin man from Waynesboro named Dean Durr - a little...
USUALLY WHEN Denson Robinson talks to the media, he’s pretty matter of fact.
But when he starts talking about the city of Madison’s volunteer fire department, even he says he gets “passionate.”
Robinson...
by KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
THE CITIES OF Madison and Ridgeland both saw growth in their total assessed values this year.
After a 2.6 percent drop last year, Ridgeland’s assessed value grew by 2.1...
AROUND THIS TIME last year, Madison County Tax Assessor Gerald Barber said the county would be fortunate to grow just one percent in total assessed value in the coming year.
He was wrong, and he’s happy about it. The county...
WITH A CREEK eroding in Madison and a storage building in danger of falling in, the Madison County Board of Supervisors voted recently to express official interest in fixing the problem.
“This was kind of step one for our local...
Sharon Summers is the new principal of Ridgeland High School (RHS). She takes the place of Lee Boozer, who was the school’s first and only principal since it was founded in 2002. Summers has worked at RHS since 2006, when she started...
JUST AFTER EASTER, I took a trip to Arkansas to see family and friends.
I got to visit with my grandma for a few days, and I even saw my 20-year-old cousin Jake, whom I typically only see at Easter. Jake and Garrett, Aunt Margaret...
DOES YOUR neighbor’s yard stink? Can you walk past his house and know that his dog has been eating – and doing other things – regularly?
You might find some relief by calling animal control.
Madison County...
PENDING APPROVAL from the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT), Aberdeen-based Eutaw Construction Company will be doing the widening work on Lake Harbour Drive in Ridgeland.
Ridgeland officials awarded the project to Eutaw...
NORTHSIDERS will see several new school principals when students start classes again this fall. But most of the “new” faces are not so new, as assistant principals step into many of the lead roles.
At Madison Central High...
MADISON COUNTY taxpayers who own farm or forest land in the Gluckstadt area might see a slight change in their property tax bill later this year.
Madison County Tax Assessor Gerald Barber told the board of supervisors at a meeting last...
DEVELOPERS with the Town of Livingston in Madison County hope to get a tourism tax incentive from the state after garnering a vote of support from the county board of supervisors last month.
Supervisors voted unanimously to endorse the...
THE MISSISSIPPI Republican and Democratic parties recently chose delegates to represent the state at the parties’ national conventions later this summer, and several Northsiders made the lists.
Besides state party chairman Joe...
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
MADISON COUNTY supervisors listed several reasons last week for firing Board Attorney Eric Hamer and replacing him with former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy.
But perhaps...
Sun Staff Writer
RIDGELAND AND Madison are set to reap the benefits of Madison County’s recent settlement with the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) over the failed Reunion Parkway interchange.
In addition...
Sun Staff Writer
MADISON RESIDENTS are slated to get a million dollars worth of improvements to streets and parks, and they won’t have to pay any extra taxes for them.
City officials plan to issue $1 million in general...
Sun Staff Writer
CONSTRUCTION should start late this summer or early this fall on a multi-use trail along Highland Colony Parkway.
The Colony Park Public Improvement District (PID) will build the trail, which will connect with...
