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John Dorsa, State Farm agent, has recently received the company’s Chairman’s Circle award.
In addition to recognizing an agent’s sales ability, this top award honors agents who align their business with the long-...
THE GAME of tennis is a sport that is played year-round and lifelong. The Ridgeland Tennis Center can surely vouch for this claim. They have many upcoming events on schedule for the year. During the heat of the summer is when the passion and...
RIDGELAND OFFICIALS will be receiving bids Monday, June 18, for the Lake Harbour Drive widening project, and work will start about a month later, officials said.
“We’ll award a bid at the next board of aldermen meeting...
Judges Tomie Green and Jeff Weill will soon lay out their arguments before the state’s high court.
The Mississippi Supreme Court recently granted Green’s request to schedule a conference with justices to discuss further her...
IF YOU GET A traffic ticket and want to contest it, you should hope you’re on the north side of County Line Road.
To be sure, you’ll probably have to wait your turn in court no matter where your traffic trial is. Municipal...
Parking meter future
Broken parking meters in downtown Jackson could soon be a thing of the past. The city is planning to bring on a private firm to upgrade and maintain the city’s meters and possibly enforce...
SUMMERTIME is a time when many people are traveling and the kids are headed to camp. Most people think of camp as a place to do outdoor ‘camp’ type activities. Traditional camps like these are a great experience but...
ONE OF THE best-kept secrets on the Northside is a library.
Tucked away in the Mississippi Education and Research Center off Ridgewood Road in Jackson, the Mississippi Library Commission (MLC) has a library of its own, one that is open...
IF JOHN MCGOWAN had his way, Two Lakes would have been finished 15 years ago and development along the project would be thriving.
Instead, engineers are about to begin a new feasibility study, this time on the One Lake project, a...
AFTER MORE THAN a decade of delays, the Highway 463 bypass north of downtown Madison will be finished and open next weekend, according to the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT).
MDOT and Madison officials will hold a...
SPACES ARE FILLING up at the Northside’s private and parochial schools.
The majority of schools in Northeast Jackson and South Madison County are nearing or have reached enrollment capacity for the fall, and are now putting...
RIDGELAND IS going paperless.
The city will no longer print paper copies of board packets and agendas for board of aldermen meetings and committee meetings. Instead, Mayor Gene McGee, the seven aldermen, city attorney and city clerk...
Will Longwitz just finished his first session in the state Legislature as District 25 senator, representing parts of Madison, Ridgeland and northeast Jackson. Longwitz also has a law practice in Madison. He and his wife, Leigh Ann, are...
The Mississippi Public Service Commission’s support of Mississippi Power Company's Kemper County Power Plant is indefensible and ridiculous. Clearly Commissioner Brandon Presley has this one right and Commissioners Leonard Bentz and...
The wags enjoy telling it to you straight: "What's that y'r ask'n, son? Wh'r do th' names f'r Mi'ssippi towns come from? Why right off them wat'r tow'rs, that's wh'r." Pause. Guffaw.
...The Sierra Club, which once supported the use of natural gas as a bridge to its hope for total reliance on “green energy,” has now come out against it.
Apparently the powerful environmental group is worried the glut of...
While awaiting the much anticipated (by Marvel fans) “The Avengers,” starring Captain America, Iron Man, the Hulk, the Black Widow and Thor, I must admit to intense excitement on my part and on the part of my two-year-old son, Paul...
As a fairly typical middle-aged family man, I occasionally gripe about the pressures and hassles of family life. Sometimes it seems like the members of my family view me as an ATM, but more annoying than the bank kind because I complain when...
Purging the System
A ROBERT DRIVE fire hydrant that had been running non-stop for about two weeks as of last Friday, was likely opened to purge the system after a water main burst in Eastover, so says Jackson Director...
Learn with Hoot
Mississippi Museum of Art will host Look and Learn with Hoot, June 15, 10:30 a.m., an activity time for four- and five-year-olds and their parents. For more information call 601-960-1515.
Pet...
The Magnolia State Chapter, NSDAR awarded Braelyn Howard the 11th -grade DAR Good Citizenship award recently at the Old Capitol Museum. She was selected for her honor, service, courage, leadership and patriotism.
Five...
Madison Chief of Police Gene Waldrop (center) was the recipient of the Jim Ingram Lifetime Achievement Award. Waldrop was presented with the honor at the recent Police Memorial and Appreciation Day held at the Jackson Trade Mart. He...
FEWER CONGRESSIONAL earmarks means the old farmers’ market on West Street won’t be closing anytime soon.
The market was on the chopping block, at least until the mid-term elections, when Republicans swept the U.S. House of...
Dr. Ralph B. Vance Sr. M.D., (left), professor of oncology medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, volunteered as Legislative Doctor of the Day at the Capitol recently. In that capacity, Dr. Vance was available to provide non...
THE TRUTH about Mississippi Blood Services is that they are in constant need of donations. Their motto, “Make Giving Life Your Way of Life,” applies throughout the year but is most prevalent during the summer. People...
