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Winterview Farm recently participated in the Jumpin’ into June Horse Show at Lagniappe Equestrian Center in Folsom, La. Riders are members of the Mississippi Hunter Jumper Association and train with Patti Shoemaker. Shown are (back...
Jackson Academy junior class officers and ambassador this year were (from left) Brent Ferguson, Sarah Criddle, Katie Ferguson, Julia Beacham, Caroline Walker (ambassador), Laura Ramsey.
St. Andrew’s Episcopal upper school students who received book awards for excellence in English are (from left, back) J.T. Kitchings, philosophy; Anthony Gamble, honors English 12; Matthew Mosley, AP English 12; Parks Douglas,...
Students listed to the honor roll at Jackson Academy for the fourth term include:
Seventh Grade
Academy honor roll: Lizzie Bowman, Mary Kathryn Brogan, Mary Kate Brown, Conley Chinn, Taylor Hawks, Ambie McCoy,...
Members of the 2012 junior high girls track team at Jackson Prep are (from left, back) Coach Malcolm Saxon, Coach Rusty Burke, Ann Leighton Malouf, Carson Easterling, Maley Lawrence, Hannah Higginbotham, Mollie Merrell, Emily Owen, Lexi Dodd,...
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...
By RYAN RILEY
Sun Intern
SEEING THINGS from a different perspective and culture can open up one’s mind to see things through life’s big picture. Just ask Northsider Sandra Burns. Recently, Burns ventured off to...
Jimmie Earl Walker
Services were held June 25 at St. Peter’s Cathedral for Jimmie Earl ‘Jim’ Walker of Madison.
Walker, 87, died June 22 at St. Catherine’s Village.
Walker was born October 17,...
The Hinds County Public Works Department has earned accreditation by the American Public Works Association (APWA), becoming the first county agency in the state of Mississippi to be accredited. Hinds County becomes the 72nd public agency in the...
A PORTION of County Line Road has been tapped for a major renovation under Hinds County’s newest four-year road plan.
It is the only Northside road being included in the plan, but one of several roads that the county is repaving...
SEWER SERVICES on Jackson Street in Ridgeland will soon get an upgrade.
“We’re actually going to install a gravity-flow line in place of a force main on the south side of Jackson Street,” said Ridgeland Public Works...
By ANTHONY WARREN
Sun Staff Writer
AFTER BEING closed for nearly two months, the LeFleur’s Bluff golf course will soon be reopened to the public.
State officials expect to meet their deadline of reopening the...
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
The Mississippi Conference of the United Methodist Church is moving its headquarters to the Northside.
The group recently approved relocating its offices from downtown Jackson to Briarwood Drive in North...
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...
Mississippi has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the nation. Local headlines blare the problem. Recent samples: “Teen pregnancy an epidemic;” and “5-part MPB series to explore teen pregnancy.” And our problem really is...
People t hear the puerile rantings of People today hear the puerile rantings of Jackson’s city council members, as well as the vitriol spewed across the aisles in our Legislature, and wonder how much worse it can possibly get. The answer...
The sad case of the Madison couple now facing 30 years in prison for growing marijuana highlights the schizophrenia of our nation’s marijuana laws. Seventeen states now allow medical marijuana to be grown in the home. In Mississippi and...
Building a brand new Hinds County jail just because some locks don’t work has got to be the worst idea we’ve heard in a long time. Has anybody told the Hinds County Board of Supervisors there’s a Great Recession going on? Has...
The $2.8 billion lignite gassification plant in Kemper County is in trouble. It’s $366 million over budget but only 22 percent completed.
Public pressure is increasing. Last week the Mississippi Public Service Commission (PSC)...
Rick Cleveland was still moving into his new office last week when he took a break to talk with Sun Staff Writer Anthony Warren about his new position, executive director of the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. Cleveland, a former...
Northsiders recently had a chance to tell Jackson city leaders what they wanted in new ward lines.
And the majority said they wanted to stay in their respective districts and keep their communities of interest together.
Public...
by KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
A PROPOSED multimillion-dollar mixed-use development at the Ross Barnett Reservoir is still stalled.
Harbor Walk is a multi-phase project that calls for a luxury hotel,...
by ANTHONY WARREN
Sun Staff Writer
FAILING TO show up for jury duty in Hinds or Madison counties could net fines and jail time.
But more than likely it won’t.
Hundreds of people fail to make it...
