Articles by Sam Luvisi
Hickman shows off district changes in community tour
Columbus Municipal School District Superintendent Philip Hickman led tours of district schools for local community leaders Thursday and Friday to experience what he calls a “new district,” following the implementation of a number of new initiatives.
MUW researchers honored for work on school’s 1966 integration
In the years following the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a new file was created in the admissions office at then-Mississippi State College for Women in Columbus.
After council win, Jones leaving school board
The Columbus Municipal School District Board of Trustees is about to have another seat open.
Phoenix graces hospital as ‘leap year’ baby
Columbus parents Becky and Derrick Andrews did not realize they had planned to induce their second child’s birth on a leap day until after the little boy was born Monday. Still, they found the news pretty exciting.
Council to choose school board member
The Columbus City Council on Tuesday can fill a soon-to-be-open seat on the Columbus Municipal School District board.
Columbus’ Surprising Spartans
Most of the people in their 20s and 30s that compete alongside Tony Phinisey in Spartan Races — known as one of the world’s most challenging obstacle races — are unaware he and members of his team are two or three decades their senior.
Karriem, Colom, Lowndes NAACP discuss criminal justice
Forty-six year-old Yolancer Nixon got some disappointing news after she came early to a Lowndes County NAACP meeting in Columbus Thursday hoping to find assistance in removing a 1999 drug conviction from her criminal record.
Pro-brewery bills die in Legislature Tuesday
Golden Triangle residents won’t be walking into the region’s single brewery, Mayhew Junction Brewing Company, and buying a beer anytime soon.
Local NAACP to host criminal justice forum
The Lowndes County NAACP will host “Promises Unmet,” a discussion about the criminal justice system, on Thursday evening at Municipal Complex.
How safe is your drinking water?
There is increased scrutiny nationwide of lead levels in drinking water following the crisis in Flint, Michigan, but local officials say there’s no reason for fears of similar issues in Columbus and Starkville.
Severe weather, possible tornadoes today
Golden Triangle residents should prepare for the possibility of severe weather, including tornadoes, today, according to National Weather Service officials.
Turnipseed shares story of Ida B. Wells at Columbus library
It was only after high school, college and two master’s degrees that C. Sade Turnipseed said she ever learned about Ida B. Wells, the black woman journalist and radical activist who was an invaluable asset in the Civil Rights Movement and the fight against injustice.
Huebner shares EMCC approach to ensuring continued education
Eight months in as East Mississippi Community College president, Thomas M. Huebner, Jr. spoke Tuesday with the Columbus Rotary Club about ways the school continues to work to connect youth with the secondary education experience and the meaning such outreach has for the Golden Triangle community.
Born again: New Hope Echo on the web
When The New Hope Echo, the student newspaper of New Hope High School, started sometime in the 1940s, cultivating the paper took a number of different skill sets.
Paramedic arrested in Lowndes for sexual battery
A Lafayette County hospital paramedic was arrested Monday in Lowndes County for sexual battery of a vulnerable person, according to Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood.
CMSD moves to identify at-risk youth
Columbus Municipal School District will soon have a way to track students for success as young as kindergarten.
Negro League historian, son of Satchel Paige speaks in Columbus
In celebrating Black History Month, Columbus Municipal School District hosted Negro League baseball historian Larry Lester and Robert Paige — the oldest son of Leroy “Satchel” Paige, a longtime Negro League star — at a presentation Thursday morning at Cook Elementary Magnets Fine Arts School.
Reward offered after Starkville dog shot
Allen Robertson sat in the parking lot of Mississippi State University School of Veterinary Science’s emergency clinic for hours last week as he decided what he might tell his four children and granddaughter about the family’s dog, Ginger.
CMSD honors teachers, administrators of the year
The Columbus Municipal School District Board of Trustees announced awards for teachers and administrators of the year Wednesday.
CMSD teacher connected to meth ring
Federal authorities have taken a Columbus Middle School educator into custody after a grand jury indicted the teacher on charges of aiding a methamphetamine ring.