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Batter Up! Youth preparing for baseball

Around 3,000 Northside youth baseball players were hoping to be back at practice this week, as the state and local governments began lifting restrictions on outside gatherings.

Sanderson Farms Championship still scheduled for September

Despite changes to the second half of this season’s PGA Tour, officials say the 2020 Sanderson Farms Championship is still slated to go on as scheduled.

College Bound: Mississippi State, Ole Miss top choices for Northside graduates

THE NUMBERS ARE IN, AND for the fourth year in a row, Mississippi State University is the top choice among Northside graduates.

UMMC announces layoffs, salary reductions as a result of COVID-19

On May 21, the University of Mississippi Medical Center announced that it would have to lay off employees and reduce salaries for employees making more than $100,000 a year, as a result of losses r

Lawmakers discuss indefinitely extending session as they return to Jackson after coronavirus recess

The on-again, off-again 2020 legislative session is scheduled to resume Tuesday and is not slated to end until July 12.

Looking forward to V-C Day

By Sam Taylor, READ MORE > 579 Reads
On Fri, 05/15/2020 - 11:50 AM

May 8, 2020, marked the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe, commonly referred to as V-E Day. The war would not officially end for another three months when Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945, now known as V-J Day.

Has Jeff Gold found a way to stop COVID-19?

By Robert Wise, READ MORE > 3933 Reads
On Fri, 05/15/2020 - 11:42 AM

In a world so quickly changed beyond our imagining, we suddenly find ourselves in an age of fever desperate for a vaccine to deliver us from COVID-19. If only we can return to the health, prosperity and camaraderie of the old world just two months ago. Family weddings, reunions, dinner parties and even funerals?

A conversation with Beattie on pandemic’s effect on MSO

By By NIKKI ROWELL, READ MORE > 537 Reads
On Fri, 05/15/2020 - 11:33 AM

The Mississippi Symphony Orchestra (MSO) performs for more than 75,000 Mississippians each year at more than 120 concerts statewide.

On the Front Line: Dr. Jones and Dr. Wilson leading the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s covid-19 response

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On Fri, 05/15/2020 - 11:29 AM

As Mississippi continues to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, a Northsider and prominent emergency medicine physician is teaming with a key administrator and emergency operations veteran to help lead the response at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC).

‘Gift of time’ results in a family garden

By Nikki Rowell, READ MORE > 683 Reads
On Fri, 05/15/2020 - 11:27 AM

One Northside family is taking advantage of the pandemic to return to the simple life. Northeast Jackson resident Emily McClain and her family are looking at it as though they have been given a great gift: the gift of time.
And with this gift, the family built a garden in their backyard.

Urban Farmers: Northside family tries gardening

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On Fri, 05/15/2020 - 11:20 AM

Like many Northside families, the stay-at-home order has offered them more time to do things together and to try new projects. This is exactly what Emily and Guy McClain, along with their children, did. They became farmers. The family decided to try their hand at gardening.

Reservoir officials expect fewer boaters, activities this summer

By Nikki Rowell, READ MORE > 491 Reads
On Fri, 05/15/2020 - 11:16 AM

In May 2010, the Northside Sun reported that officials and police at the Barnett Reservoir were preparing for approximately 500 boats to make their way to the body of water near Old Trace Park for Pepsi Pops.
May is typically the beginning of the Barnett Reservoir’s “busy season,” kicking off with Pepsi Pops.

No Camping: Ordinance to address issue with vagrancy on Northside

By Anthony Warren, READ MORE > 2486 Reads
On Fri, 05/15/2020 - 11:14 AM

Jackson police officers now have the tools needed to address vagrancy on the Northside.
In April, the city council approved an ordinance regulating urban camping and the improper use of public places in the city.

Feds: Mississippi must replace all misspent or stolen welfare money with state funds

By Anna Wolfe - Mississippi Today, READ MORE > 1902 Reads
On Fri, 05/15/2020 - 10:29 AM

Once it identifies exactly how many millions of federal dollars Mississippi misused within its welfare program over the last several years, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will require the state to use its own funds to replace them.

State legislature approves $300 million in Covid-19 funding

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On Thu, 05/14/2020 - 06:14 PM

The Mississippi legislature agreed on Wednesday to create a grant program for small businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. This program allocates $300 million of the federally allocated $1.25 billion from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) to be split into two programs:

UMMC announces layoffs, salary reductions as a result of COVID-19

On May 21, the University of Mississippi Medical Center announced that it would have to lay off employees and reduce salaries for employees making more than $100,000 a year, as a result of losses related to the COVID-19 outbreak.

In a statement provided by the hospital, Vice Chancellor LouAnn Woodward annouced that some layoffs would occur, hiring freezes would be implemented, and salary reductions would be put in place for some administrative employees.

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