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JACKSON police are looking into whether or not an armed robbery on the night of April 12 is connected to a robbery carjacking that occurred on April 9. On the night of April 12, a woman was walking to her apartment when she was approached by an...
THE MADISON Organization of Homeowner Associations (MONA) will meet Thursday night, April 26, with guest speaker Sheriff Randy Tucker.
Tucker will discuss his first 100 days in office and the overall state of the Madison County Sheriff...
THE LAND IN the Parkway East Public Improvement District (PID) has a new name: the Germantown Business Park at Galleria.
And Parkway East itself, which runs south from Gluckstadt to Madison on the east side of I-55 and becomes Galleria...
WORK COULD get under way as early as late May on the Fortification Street Improvement Project.
At its regular meeting last week, the Jackson City Council approved awarding an $8.9 million contract to Hemphill Construction Company for the...
David Overby took office in January as Madison County administrator. He previously served 12 years as Ridgeland’s city clerk and director of finance and administration, and worked in public accounting for 20 years. Overby lives in...
Waste Management of Jackson and Tougaloo College will team up to plant a tranquil reading garden on the Tougaloo campus. The planting, aimed at providing enjoyable green space in Mississippi communities, will bring Waste Management and...
WHY ARE THERE so many parkways?
Madison Parkway, Galleria Parkway/Parkway East, Highland Colony Parkway, Annandale/Reunion Parkway – the list goes on.
Maybe the word gets repetitive, but it turns out that most of these...
SPRING JUST arrived March 20, but the Pearl River Valley Water Supply District (PRV) is already preparing for what General Manager John Sigman calls “the season.”
The PRV governs the 33,000-acre Ross Barnett Reservoir and...
The Jackson Police Department received the following reports for:
Beasley Road, 400 block east, auto burglary, April 8;
Beasley Road, 400 block east, auto theft, March 29;
Beasley Road, 500 block east, auto burglary, April...
All across the metro Jackson area and even throughout the United States hundreds of volunteers are busy making preparations for the 2012 Trail of Honor. This military salute event, which will be held May 19-20 in Jackson at the Harley-Davidson...
MORE POLICE coverage is on tap for the Northside, with the Jackson Police Department (JPD) coming through on its promise to increase the number of beats in Precinct Four.
The precinct’s new beat structure will be implemented this...
IF YOU WANT TO get a cup of coffee at Highland Village, don’t go to the bus.
The red omnibus is no longer serving coffee. The iconic double-decker will soon be moved to make way for a Whole Foods grocery store.
Java Werks...
Mayo Flynt is 2012 chairman of the board of directors for the Greater Jackson Chamber Partnership. The partnership is a nonprofit group that represents approximately 2,000 businesses, both large and small, in the metro area. Flynt recently...
BAIT CARS HAVE become popular across the United States, so much so that YouTube is flooded with videos and Court TV has its own series showcasing the vehicles being put in action.
The concept has caught on locally as well, with both the...
Student chemists at Belhaven University are experiencing what only a handful of universities across the country ever encounter; a completely green chemistry program.
Last year, Belhaven’s new chemistry professor, Dr. Gary Reid...
POPULATIONS are shifting in Madison County, and the school board’s redistricting plan reflects that.
Late last month, the Madison County School Board approved a plan redrawing their district lines based on 2010 census data.
WHAT RECESSION?
Since the Great Recession began in 2008, Ballet Mississippi’s budget has grown by nearly a third, teachers have been given a pay raise, and enrollment is at record numbers.
Similarly, the Mississippi...
BLOCKED TRAFFIC lanes on Old Canton Road will soon mean a smoother walking trail at Parham Bridges Park.
But at least one Jackson city leader would like to see much more done to make the park a sought-after destination for families,...
TWO FORMER Madison County supervisors recently confirmed county spending on roads has favored the city of Madison in the past eight years – and one of those supervisors is proud of it.
“Yeah I did a good job, didn’t I...
A NEW SCHOOL of medicine along with a cancer and biomedical research facility will be the cornerstones of more than $120 million in new construction on tap for the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC).
The hospital is...
The Rotary Club of North Jackson recently presented a check for $1,500 to the Jackson Metro Area Salvation Army for disaster relief. Shown are (from left) Captain Ken Chapman of the Salvation Army and Don Roberts, club president. The Rotary...
TOO BAD HE CAN’T be in two places at once.
As Ballet Mississippi’s artist-in-residence and a member of the Corps De Ballet with the American Ballet Theatre (ABT) in New York, Mikhail Ilyin splits his time between Jackson and...
Four specialty medical practices, NewSouth NeuroSpine, Mississippi Sports Medicine and Orthopaedic Center, Jackson Heart Clinic, and GI Associates and Endoscopy Center, and Trustmark, have signed an agreement with Century Club Charities...
Jackson Crime
The Jackson Police Department received the following reports for:
North Hill Parkway, aggravated assault, March 11;
Northside Drive, 1500 block west, auto burglary, March 23;
Northside Drive, 2800 block...
James Thris with the G.V. Sonny Montgomery VA Medical Center recently spoke to the North Jackson Lions Club. Thris said that the accreditation group Joint Commission on Hospitals rated the hospital as one of the top medical facilities in...
