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St. Andrew's Episcopal School seniors who were on the 2012 varsity volleyball team which recently finished its season with a record of 20-9 are (from left) Jasmine McNair, Brittany Mitchell, Kelli Slater, and Marion Hudson.
Fifth and sixth-grade students at Jackson Academy that cheer for the white team include (from left, back) Camille Coey, Lily Waltman, Leah Richardson, Nayan Malhotra, Ansley Hill, Hartwell Furr; (middle row) Celeste Knighton...
Five Boy Scouts from BSA Troop Eight, sponsored by First Baptist Church, have earned the rank of Eagle Scout. The Court of Honor was held recently for (from left) Davis Guild, Wade Chesney, Kent McNamara, Jackson Scott,...
Turkey workout
Raising the Barr Fitness will offer a free Turkey Busting Workout, November 23 and 24 at 10 a.m. Bring a canned vegetable to donate to Pinelake Care Center. For details call 601-414-3536.
Santa...
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Venable of Terry announce the engagement of their daughter, Caroline Leigh Venable, to Graham Ross Coffelt. The bride is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Venable and the late L.G. Prudhomme and Octavia P....
Mr. and Mrs. John Edgar Lynch announce the engagement of their daughter, Elizabeth Myhr Lynch, to Stewart Jennings Hood, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Wilson Hood.
Miss Lynch is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hines Williford of...
by Anthony Warren
Sun Staff Writer
More than a million dollars is available to the city of Jackson if only they could collect it.
Jackson’s municipal court system is carrying a backlog of unserved warrants...
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....
by katie eubanks
Sun Staff Writer
RESIDENTIAL building permits in Ridgeland have been on a steady incline since fiscal year 2009, but permits for new commercial buildings have done nothing but decrease since the...
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...
As The Gleaming white eight-foot-long African bull elephant tusks neared Bill Boykin’s body, he had an overwhelming desire to run, a desire which would have been fatal. Boykin stood between the raging bull and two defenseless women. If he...
My brother and I went hunting with my best friend, Mo, around Salamonie Reservoir in Indiana. We took his new, but used, four-wheel drive Blazer with gigantic mud tires knowing that we could go anywhere we wanted. Driving down a gravel road we...
There are two major things going on this time of year. There is football - high school, college and the NFL - and politics. This got me thinking of how the two are so much alike. The presidential candidates hit on each other like a huge...
By ANTHONY WARREN
Sun Staff Writer
Improving security and safety for residents in Eastover is a priority for the Eastover Neighborhood Association (ENA).
The group currently uses off-duty police officers to patrol the...
By ANTHONY WARREN
Sun Staff Writer
Plans have been laid out, and estimates say it will take around $5.6 million to transform Parham Bridges Park into a world-class tennis center and community destination.
Ward One...
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
THE CJ STEWART Foundation, a nonprofit 501c3 based in Madison, is officially seeking another location for “Down Range,” a proposed sports camp facility for teens.
The...
By ANTHONY WARREN
Sun Staff Writer
The Northside is represented well in the state football playoffs.
Jackson Academy (JA) is looking for its fourth state title, but they’ll have to get through Jackson...
Lu Lee continues to be an inspiration.
Even lying in a hospital bed fighting for life, she’s still considered the boss.
She beat cancer three years ago. And when you look into her determined blue eyes, it’s easy to...
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Paul Enstrom announce the engagement of their daughter, Lauren Michelle Enstrom, to Jordan Ross Cantrell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Ralph Cantrell.
The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Mrs. Earnest Russell...
Amanda Leigh Griffin and Matthew Wesley Conner were united in marriage at 6:30 p.m. March 10 at Oxford-University United Methodist Church in Oxford.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Kennedy Griffin III of Jackson. She...
If brilliant fall foliageis one of your great landscape delights, don’t waste too much time longing for trips to the fabled New England leaf show. I’ve been there twice, and I can truly say that, other than a bit more red in the New...
Most of our hunting endeavors, and fishing too for that matter, involve some type of deception. It may be trying to fool a group of mallards with decoys, it could involve tricking a wary gobbler with seductive yelps from an artificial call...
Jan Elizabeth May
Services were held October 30 from First Presbyterian Church for Jan Elizabeth Ferguson May of Jackson.
Mrs. May, 78, passed away October 28 at her...
Sophia Ainsleigh Hankins
Gabrielle Reese Hankins
Kimberly Dowdle and Jimmy Hankins announce the birth of their twin daughters, Sophia Ainsleigh...
Chamber series
Mississippi Symphony Orchestra Chamber Series performance will be Haydn’s 73rd, November 16, 7:30 p.m. at Galloway Memorial United Methodist Church. For more information...










