Articles by Carmen K. Sisson
Adopt-A-family program offers help rebuilding homes in storm-ravaged areas
Mississippi churches are “adopting” storm-impacted families through a grassroots, interfaith initiative for a year-long journey of faith, partnership and recovery.
New CHS principal outlines concerns with school
The city schools won’t reopen until Aug. 8, but new Columbus High School Principal Scott Hallmark has been busy crunching data and crafting a list of goals and priorities.
Riding out the storm: Caledonia grapples with weather preparedness
Caledonia Water Superintendent Benny Coleman and office manager Cathy Brown were in the water department’s metal building on Jan. 10, 2008, when the tornado ripped through town. From their refuge in the office closet, they could only huddle in the darkness and pray.
Caledonia to see water-rate hike
CALEDONIA — Caledonia residents will see a water-rate increase possibly as soon as August if the Public Service Commission approves a petition Mayor George Gerhart signed during Tuesday night’s Board of Aldermen meeting.
Home for the Holidays: Minnesota Vikings head coach Leslie Frazier spends the weekend in Columbus
Leslie Frazier is accustomed to heat. After all, he was raised in Columbus and grew up beneath the glare of the Mississippi sun. If the suffocating temperatures or the stranglehold of a media gaggle perturbed him Saturday afternoon, he didn’t let it show.
Fireworks on the agenda this Fourth of July weekend
By noon Friday, streets were crowded, and every fireworks stand, grocery store and video kiosk in town was packed with customers preparing for the long holiday weekend.
New Salvation Army leader looks to help local agency thrive
There’s a new director at the helm of the Salvation Army in Columbus, and though he’s been on the job less than two weeks, Maj. Paul White is already shaking things up, dusting things off, and making changes he hopes will bring in more profits for the local agency.
Community project headed by MUW instructor brings life to storm-ravaged town
The idea is simple: Provide decorative, hand-painted “love signs” for residents and business owners, indicating that even though things are a mess right now, they will return.
Community project headed by MUW instructor brings life to storm-ravaged town
The idea is simple: Provide decorative, hand-painted “love signs” for residents and business owners, indicating that even though things are a mess right now, they will return.
Waxing poetic: Arts in the Classroom funded for another year
Annunciation Catholic School received two grants this week that will have students dancing, singing and waxing poetic as the second year of the Arts in the Classroom Whole School Initiative gets under way.
Lowndes schools financially stable
The Lowndes County School District received good news from business officer and administrator Frances Goldmon during Monday night’s budget hearing for the upcoming year: No staff positions will be cut, and they’re in pretty good shape, financially.
Boys to men: Local ministry takes youth under its wing
Silently, the teenager stepped from the pool, slipped a gray T-shirt over his head and walked away from his peers. If they called to him, he didn’t respond. He kept walking, out of the enclosure, beyond the chain-link fence, his eyes focused on the tree line. He reached the edge of the woods and hesitated, his eyes adjusting from sunlight to darkness
Boys to men: Local ministry takes youth under its wing
Silently, the teenager stepped from the pool, slipped a gray T-shirt over his head and walked away from his peers. If they called to him, he didn’t respond. He kept walking, out of the enclosure, beyond the chain-link fence, his eyes focused on the tree line. He reached the edge of the woods and hesitated, his eyes adjusting from sunlight to darkness
Looking good, feeling better: Program gives cancer patients cosmetics, hope
The doctor’s mouth was moving, but his words sounded far away, like a disembodied voice talking about someone else. Geneva Wright wasn’t worried about her survival — not at first anyway. Instead, she thought about her co-workers at the bank. What would they think if they knew? She didn’t want their pity, that was for sure, and she didn’t want to be the subject of town gossip.
Scouts learn about respect, courage and health and fitness during day camp
Monday was almost unbearably hot and humid. Tuesday, it rained and the power went out. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, more of the same.
Scouts learn about respect, courage and health and fitness during day camp
Monday was almost unbearably hot and humid. Tuesday, it rained and the power went out. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, more of the same.
Truck overturns after getting cut off by car
An 18-wheel flatbed tractor trailer truck lost control of its load and overturned on Port Access Road, approximately one-half mile from Island Road, Saturday morning, according to Sgt. Glenn Culpepper with the Columbus Police Department.
The Dispatch wins eight MPA awards
The Commercial Dispatch received eight awards in the Mississippi Press Association’s annual 2010 Better Newspaper Contest Saturday night in Biloxi during the MPA’s 145th annual convention.
Changing of the guard at Annunciation school
Change is afoot at Annunciation Catholic School, from a new principal to the addition of an eighth-grade class this fall.
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