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As part of the project Bozeman Road between Gluckstadt and Sharpe roads has been closed to replace a box culvert. The road closed January 12 and is expected to reopen February 13.
The first phase of the project to widen Bozeman Road from Mississippi Highway 463 to Reunion Parkway is about halfway complete.
About a year’s worth of construction remains before the first phase is done and that segment offers a smooth, four-lane roadway, said Tim Bryan, Madison County engineer.
Two lanes are being added to Bozeman Road while the existing two lanes of traffic are kept open for drivers, Bryan said.
New lanes are being added on both the east and west sides of the existing lanes, with the location depending upon the right-of-way that was acquired.
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Individuals living with spinal cord injury or disease who have been impacted by Winter Storm Fern may be eligible for financial assistance through the United Spinal Disaster
Relief Grant Program.
The Brain Injury Association of Mississippi/United Spinal Association of Mississippi is sharing this opportunity to help ensure affected individuals are aware of available support during disaster recovery. Grant funds may be used to address urgent needs and expenses resulting from disaster-related events.
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Steve Jent, the exec director of Century Club Charities, announced recently that the Wayne-Sanderson Farms PGA golf tournament will no longer be held this year. So, after having a PGA professional golf tournament in Mississippi for 58 years we will have no sponsor, and therefore no tournament. Last year Century Club Charities, which organizes the tournament, gave $1 million to Blair Batson Children's Hospital, and $700m to several other charities.
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Last week Mom and I had arrived at our first night in the capital of Uganda, Entebbee. We woke up the next morning feeling no pain from the flights to get there. We had a need to get our legs moving so we took a walk around the gorgeously landscaped grounds of our lodge. We had a fresh fruit breakfast and found out then and there that Uganda was serious about their coffee. I should have known since Uganda is Africa’s leading exporter of Robusta and Arabica beans. Robusta is native to Uganda’s forests grown at lower altitudes.
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Louisiana’s U.S. Senator John Kennedy has written a national best-seller, “How to Test Negative for Stupid And Why Washington Never Will.” The preposterous conceit that drives the book is that everybody, or almost everybody, in the nation’s capital is stupid, with the exception of Senator Kennedy.
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Walter Morrison
Top priorities in for the mayor of Gluckstadt this year include road projects to improve traffic flow, progress on the city’s first park and support for the new businesses.
“We are continuing our efforts to do something to alleviate traffic congestion,” said Walter C. Morrison IV, who was appointed as the first mayor of Gluckstadt after incorporation June 6, 2021, and elected last year when the city held its first municipal election.
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Whether you watch the Super Bowl for the football game, the half-time show, the advertisements, or just to join in the fun, the food is my favorite part. I love tailgate food and snack foods. It is a special treat when we get to eat complete junk food for dinner.
Because most of these recipes are complete calorie bombshells, they are not foods we should eat every day. Saving them for special gatherings, like the Super Bowl, make them even more special.
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Top soloist back by popular demand, Bravo series’ Thalia Mara Hall return
Mississippi Symphony Orchestra’s “Ultimate Beethoven” concert, Saturday, February 28, at Thalia Mara Hall, toasts the master composer with a triumphal program highlighting all the drama, passion and power of his music. Popular concert violinist and audience favorite William Hagen returns in the guest artist spotlight, and the evening marks MSO’s Bravo Series’ return to the city’s grandest venue – the newly reopened Thalia Mara Hall.
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PRAM Central members display awards during the 2026 Outstanding Practitioner of the Year awards ceremony. Pictured are (from left) Kalli Hedgepeth, Chrystelle Thames, APR; Emily-Kate Ford, Sophie McNeil-Wolf, APR; Vanessa Lowe-Garcia, Micheal King and Jan Schaefer, APR.
The Public Relations Association of Mississippi Central Chapter honored three members as 2025 Outstanding Practitioners of the Year and presented the President’s Award during its annual awards program, recognizing professionals whose work and service have made significant contributions to the public relations profession and the organization.
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Dr. Rodney Rocconi, Dr. LouAnn Woodward, and Dr. Holt Crews
Investment Underscores Company’s Deep, Long-Term Commitment to Mississippi
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Robert St. John says sometimes we’re too hard on Mississippi. We know the flaws. We’ve lived with them. But we can’t see the forest for the pine trees, as they say.
Marco had never seen a pine plantation.
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Below is an opinion column by Barrett Donahoe:
This is not about politics. It is about students. It is about families, and ensuring that every child—regardless of zip code or income—has access to an education that nurtures both the mind and the heart.
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Below is an opinion column by Bobby Harrison:
The effort of Mississippi House leaders and others to expand programs providing public funds to private schools validates the oft-repeated quote that “history may not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
Efforts by Mississippi legislators to send public funds to private schools go back to at least the 1960s.
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Audience members express emotion as public comments are given during the DeSoto County School Board meeting in Hernando, Miss. on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today
In DeSoto County, some community members and the school board want Michele Henley, the board’s former president, to resign. They say she wrote a letter and testified in support of a woman who was eventually convicted of sexual battery against a minor. Henley has denied those accusations.
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Below is an opinion column by Adam Ganucheau:
How Black representation at every level of government could be gutted if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.
Mississippi’s political system could soon look more like 1966 than 2026, and it’s time to acknowledge the full extent of the greatest threat to the American Experiment in decades
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Fredrick “Geno” Womack didn’t need to see the data to know that Jackson’s homicides had fallen.
Gone are the nightmarish days of 2020, when Womack, the executive director of Operation Good, said he could step outside his nonprofit’s south Jackson headquarters and smell the metallic scent of crystal meth in the air. It’s been years, he said, since he has seen an armed man roaming the sidewalks of McDowell Road.
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Lonnie Whiting Jr., a resident at the Unita Blackwell Stay Apartments in Mayersville, expressed joy in having electricity restored at the complex. "Everything is electric, so it was hard, but we making it," Whiting said on Monday, Feb. 2, 2026. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
Preparing to feed a revolving door of linemen Monday at her restaurant Chuck’s Dairy Bar, Tracy Harden recalled the winter storm of 1994, the last one that resembled what many Mississippians have lived through the past two weeks. It was then, 32 years ago, she stumbled upon a lineman she still knows well to this day.
“He was up top a light pole, and I saw him and I told my mom, ‘I’m going to marry that man up there,’” she said of meeting her now-husband, Tim.
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Measures to improve prison health care access and create stronger safeguards against the denial of care in Mississippi prisons survived the first legislative deadline on Tuesday, but several also died.
The legislation is part of a reform package introduced by Rep. Becky Currie, the Republican House Corrections Chairwoman from Brookhaven.
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The Senate Elections Committee adopted a measure on Tuesday that would, at least partially, restore the system to allow Mississippians to bypass the Legislature and put issues to a statewide vote.
The committee voted to approve Senate Concurrent Resolution 518, which would require initiative organizers to gather signatures from at least 10% of registered voters in the state, or roughly 170,000 signatures, before it can go on a ballot.
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The House of Representatives debate House Bill 2 on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, at the State Capitol in Jackson. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today
The Senate previously passed a $2K raise. The two chambers would have to reach an agreement.
Every Mississippi lawmaker has voted so far to give teachers a pay raise.
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