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Naturalist shares talents at refuge workshops
You have a chance to experience Robin Whitfield first hand at Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge this week.
Columbus avenges loss to South Panola
Nick Durrah was 4-for-4 with two doubles, a home run, and five RBIs Thursday night to lead the Columbus High School baseball team to a 13-7 victory against South Panola in a Class 6A, Division 2, District 4 game at Columbus High.
The win helped Columbus (9-8, 2-2 district) avenge a 3-2 loss in eight innings to South Panola on Tuesday.
Stefan Hairston had three hits, including a triple, and Tyji Hawkins (home run), Josh Tentoni, and Jimmy Cockrell each had two hits.
West Point company to complete county schools roofing project
Lowndes County School District board members unanimously approved the recommendation of Graham Roofing of West Point to complete re-roofing projects for New Hope schools and others in the district at a special called meeting Wednesday .
Details sketchy in two accidents involving five vehicles, injuries
The Lowndes County Sheriff’s Department and the Mississippi Highway Patrol are investigating two separate accidents — one with injuries, one without — that occurred this morning.
Undercover operations net drug arrests
A joint undercover project between a city-county law enforcement agency and the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics recently netted three arrests on drug charges.
Columbus ‘marathon’ starts Thursday
It’s time to lace up the walking shoes.
Columbus’ Possum Town Mile-A-Day Marathon officially begins at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, with registration and by a walk down the Riverwalk led by Mayor Robert Smith.
Artist becomes victim: Student profiled in Dispatch story has equipment stolen
A Mississippi State University student profiled in the Monday edition of The Dispatch was the victim of a burglary Tuesday night at his home in Starkville.
Columbus edged by South Panola in extra innings
BATESVILLE — Josh Tentoni’s two-run home run in the top of the seventh inning gave the Columbus High School baseball team a one-run lead, but the Falcons couldn’t hold it, falling to South Panola 3-2 in eight innings Tuesday in a Class 6A, Division 2, District 4 game.
Nick Durrah struck out the first two batters in the bottom of the seventh inning, but the next batter reached on an error and later scored on a passed ball to tie the game.
Stefan Hairston relieved Durrah to start the eighth and retired the first two batters before pinch hitter Alan Horne doubled and scored on a bloop single by Matt Brown.
Mayor, MDOT to announce grant for bridge walkway
On Wednesday at 3:30 p.m., Columbus Mayor Robert Smith and Butch Brown, the executive director of the Mississippi Department of Transportation, will announce a $2 million grant at Riverwalk Park in Columbus.
PBS: Former Dispatch reporter and CHS student, William Mauldin, reports from Moscow on terrorist attacks (link)
William Mauldin is a former Columbus High and MSMS student who is now deputy bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal in Moscow. He was interviewed on PBS Newshour on March 29, 2010.
Local legend brings wisdom to stage
There is a song called “Out Among the Stars” about a boy with no money who tries to hold up a liquor store and is caught and shot and killed by the police. Bill Cooke’s favorite version of the song is done by John Starling, and his favorite lyric is dark but sheds a lot of light on Cooke’s view of the world we live in these days: “The evening news carries all the details, he dies in every living room in town.”
