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Ridgeland’s 2025 tax increase is funding improvements to Freedom Ridge Park
Depending upon the approval of the Legislature, Jackson residents could be voting in a referendum this fall that would seek to raise the city’s hotel/motel tax and restaurant tax.
Senate Bill 3106 and House Bill 4011 would authorize the city of Jackson to impose an additional 1 percent tax on hotel/motel rooms and a ½ percent on restaurant sales to fund the Jackson Convention and Visitors Bureau, which is also known as Visit Jackson.
The city currently has a 1 percent tax on hotels, motels, and restaurants, which was extended to July 1, 2026, by the Legislature in 2022.
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Jackson’s premier culinary celebration returns March 20–22 with festival chair Chef Nick Wallace and more than 35 participating chefs.
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Mary Ann was born in Biloxi and grew up in Brandon, with loving but strict parents. Her childhood in Mississippi shaped her outlook on life.
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James Gwin Powell (Jim), 79, of Jackson, Mississippi passed away peacefully on March 11, 2026.
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Theo Gouras recently celebrated his 90th birthday. Sharing the occasion with him were (from left, back) Elsie Crawford, Liz Welch, Paul Welch, Bill Bissell, Kathy Bissell, Anastasia Jones; (front) Ben Crawford, Gouras, and Ken Jones.
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The Garden Club of Jackson is planning its spring fundraiser for Wednesday, April 15 from 9:30 a.m.-noon at the Country Club of Jackson. Guests will enjoy brunch while acclaimed floral designer Lewis Miller offers a Flower Flash demo. Helping prepare are club members (from left) Ashley Meena, Deetsa Molpus, and Lawana McClennan. More information and tickets are available through the club website thegardenclubofjackson.com.
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Streetlights that are out in downtown Jackson pose a dilemma about who owns them.
Does Entergy own the streetlights, or do they belong to the city of Jackson?
“At some point in its history, the city decided to do its own streetlights,” said Dallas Quinn, director of public affairs for Downtown Jackson Partners.
“You look back and nobody (with the city) was changing the bulbs or ballasts. Entergy would fix their lights and the city didn’t.”
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An engagement celebration was recently held at River Hills Club for Sarah Chase Dulske and Matt Edwards. The bride-elect is the daughter of Anne and Michael Dulske of Madison. The prospective bridegroom is the son of Nidia and Mike Edwards of Saucier. The couple will exchange vows on May 26 in Lake Como, Italy.
After a wedding trip, they will make their home in the Atlanta area, where the bride-elect will finish her residency in pediatrics at Emory University and Edwards is associated with Arclin as a capital project engineer.
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What do JXN Water and the Amazon Data Centers have in common? Why are decisions by JXN Water’s Interim Manager (Water Czar) and the Federal Judge who appointed him now suspect? Why do Entergy’s residential customers now fear higher rates due to the secret Amazon data center deal?
Because JXN Water and Entergy customers no longer trust those in charge. Before they said: “Trust us. This is for your own good.” Now, we say: “Show us the receipts.”
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Phase 1 of Bozeman Road is scheduled for completion the end of 2026
Bozeman road will benefit from the $2 million appropriated for Madison County in the 2026 federal budget.
The Madison County Board of Supervisors voted to apply the funding to the cost of the Bozeman Road widening project.
The first phase of the project from Bozeman Road to Mississippi Highway 463 is estimated to cost $38.6 million
“To receive $2 million dollars is huge for us,” said Gerald Steen, who represents District 3 and serves as president of the board. “That’s $2 million the county doesn’t have to pay.
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1825 Peachtree in Belhaven continues to suffer from neglect
A community improvement supervisor with the city of Jackson describes code enforcement as if an ER doctor.
“We’re in triage,” Robert Brunson told members of the Jackson City Council Planning and Economic Development Committee during their meeting on Feb. 5.
“We’re still trying to fix it like it’s going to go away. It’s not.”
The city of Jackson has more than 6,000 commercial and residential properties with code enforcement violations dating from October 2025 to present time, he said.
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Wayne Robert Taylor, 84, of Harrisonburg, Va., passed away March 11, 2026, at Sunnyside Retirement Community. Born February 14, 1942, in Sioux City, Iowa, he was the son of the late Robert Earl and Lucille Wieland Taylor.
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Keith Turner, an attorney with Jackson law firm Watkins & Eager gave the Rotary Club of North Jackson an update on Jackson’s flood control projects.
This is the one that started out as John McGowan’s Two Lakes, then became One Lake and is now called the “Pearl River Federal Risk Management Project.”
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Ann Russell Pace, cherished wife of Dr. Brantley B. Pace for 70 years and beloved mother of their seven children, died peacefully at home March 7, 2026, in the company of her family.
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Jerry Jones, 76, died Tuesday, February 24 surrounded by family.
Jerry was born to Betsy Walton Jones and J.W. "Fid" Jones on July 23, 1949, in Jackson. He graduated from Murrah High School in 1968 then attended Ole Miss where he was a member of Ole Miss track and field, specifically excelling at the high jump. He spent many years of his youth and early adulthood working at his family's business Hale & Jones Sporting Goods.
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Nelson Eugene Gibson Jr., 71, of Jackson passed away on March 7, 2026 from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. He was surrounded by his family.
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Ann Morgan Collins, 68, of Jackson passed away on March 5, 2026 at home after a 30-year courageous battle with stiff person syndrome, a rare neuromuscular disease. She was born on November 27, 1957 in Greenwood to Barbara Ann Morgan and the late Robert Norris Morgan.
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Ashby Foote believes too many streetlights are dark in the city of Jackson.
“I’ve been wrestling with the issue of lights for the 11 years I’ve been on the council,” said Foote, who represents Ward 1, during the Feb. 24 Jackson City Council meeting.
He went on to point out that drivers on Pascagoula Street headed to I-55 are “really in the dark” until they reach the interstate, but the problem of nonfunctioning streetlights isn’t confined only to downtown.
“It’s all over the place,” he said.
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The Mississippi Museum of Art’s annual ART PARTY 2026, A Floral Fête, transformed the galleries into a blooming, living canvas. Florists, garden clubs, and creative tastemakers from across the state designed floral installations inspired by artworks in the museum’s collection, bringing new life to the art and creative vitality to the season.
The night included an auction, raffle, food and drinks
ART PARTY is the museum’s only annual benefit, providing funds for the exhibitions, public programs, and educational initiatives.
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Daniel Phyfer
The Northside has long been seen as a safe, close-knit place to raise kids. But the same community strengths that draw families here such as strong schools, involved parents, familiar neighborhoods can also create a pressure-cooker environment for teenagers navigating identity, social status, and expectations.
“Let’s call this area of Jackson what it is. It’s a bubble,” said Daniel Phyfer, vice president of business development at Defining Wellness, a mental health and addiction treatment center near Jackson. And inside that bubble, he said, many teens feel they are performing.
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