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Starkville Holiday Home Tour features four residences
Tickets are on sale now for the Dec. 5 Holiday Home Tour and Tea sponsored by the Starkville Civic League.
Local archives works with MUW history students
The Billups-Garth Archives at the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library recently finished working with two history classes from Mississippi University for Women on their research projects.
Happy Irby family to lead Columbus parade
The Christmas Parade for the City of Columbus is being planned by numerous volunteers, participants and Main Street Columbus. This year’s parade will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 6, and will follow a set route throughout downtown.
Jeff Wilson: Fall is for planting!
On Saturdays in the fall, many of us enjoy working in our gardens, in addition to cheering on our favorite team. As the temperatures continue to drop and the rains become more frequent, fall gardening gets exciting.
West Point Candlelight Tour of Homes set for Dec. 12
West Point’s Main Street Association has added a new event this year to kick off the city’s Christmas season.
Judges hand down Lowndes County circuit court sentences
The following sentences were handed down in the November term of Lowndes County Circuit Court:
Huge crowds hit Ala. stores despite rain, game
Heavy rains and a big college football game didn’t stop crowds from turning out for shopping deals on the day after Thanksgiving, with some people even camping outside stores early Friday waiting for the bargains to begin.
Years later, Miss. still without civil rights museum
Mississippi bred some of the worst violence of the civil rights era, yet nearly a half-century after a barrage of atrocities pricked the conscience of the nation, it’s one of the few civil rights battleground states with no museum to commemorate the era.
Back in black: Shoppers brave holiday crowds
A gun-wielding man scattered Walmart shoppers early this morning in Columbus, a raucous start to a Black Friday that saw bargain-hunters braving rain and frigid weather to get their hands on deals from TVs to toys.
Clay County to update flood maps
Clay County is in the process of updating its federal flood insurance rate maps and has until May to complete the task.
Coleman defeats Porter in circuit judge runoff
West Point attorney Lee S. Coleman defeated Nebra Porter to win a new judgeship in the 16th Circuit District in a runoff election Tuesday night.
Navistar begins hiring 120 workers for West Point plant
Navistar Defense has started hiring 120 workers at its plant in West Point.
Roller derby mom: Homemaker turns Packwrecker on the skating floor
Amy Anne Duclos is your average, everyday 32-year-old housewife. Duclos was born and raised in Starkville. Her husband, Martin, works at Mississippi State University and her three children, Christopher, 9, Audrey, 7, and Benjamin, 4, all attend Starkville public schools.
Follow your passion and dreams might come true
Kids have dreams growing up to be the star quarterback on a professional football team or the pitcher that pitches a shutout at the World Series.
Moser to discuss Nobel Prize winner’s work
A Nov. 29 event sponsored by Mississippi State University’s Institute for the Humanities will feature a lecture by foreign languages professor Keith Moser on the work of 2008 Nobel Prize winner in literature, J.M.G. Le Clezio.
Delicate preservation work continues at Lee Home
Proceeds from the annual Lee Home Country Store Bake Sale — set for Nov. 23 from 10 a.m. to noon — benefit the home and its local history museum right away. Jessica Shull is taking a longer view of some of the museum’s holdings, especially its dresses and uniforms.
Jazz stand-out highlights Criss Christmas concert
Acclaimed jazz trombonist extraordinaire Wycliffe Gordon will be the featured artist Nov. 30 in Lee Hall’s Bettersworth Auditorium during the Criss Christmas Concert, a performance of Mississippi State’s annual Lyceum Series.
Toastmasters Club chartered on W campus
Mississippi University for Women sophomore Terence Nicholson, a native of West Point, has founded the Stand up-Speak up Toastmasters Club on campus.
Market Street Festival tapped as Top 20 Event by Tourism Society
ATLANTA, Ga. — The Southeast Tourism Society has named Columbus’ Market Street Festival as one of the Top 20 Events in the Southeast for May 2011. This is the 12th consecutive year the festival has received the prestigious honor.
After weeks on the run, lawyer with Columbus ties arrested
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