Architect updates LCSD board on projects

The Lowndes County School Districts board of trustees sped through a light agenda of routine housekeeping measures, meeting for just 20 minutes before retiring to a brief executive sessions to handle a part of student discipline issues on Friday.

Slimantics: Running game limits Bulldogs’ potential

They call these kinds of games “tea leave games.” The outcome is predictable, but you hope to find something meaningful that be applied to the game to come.

Brooks hopes second time is charm for expanded mini-farm

A couple of years after his first effort to help area kids “back to nature” in the form of a mini-farm withered away, Leroy Brooks is trying again.

Civil Rights Movement was also a Youth Movement

When you think of “Youth Movements” in America, you most often think of Vietnam, where students on college campuses throughout the country helped change the nation’s attitude toward the war.

Columbus loses a football legend

In Canada, he was known as Jim “Long Gone” Thomas, who as a running back for the Canadian Football League’s Edmonton Eskimos once ran a franchise record 104-yard touchdown and holds the record for the three longest scoring runs in team history.

But back home in Columbus, he was affectionately and simply known as “T.”

At 85, hospital’s ‘Volunteer of the Year’ going strong

In January of 2008, Harold Weeks, alone for the first time in 57 years after his wife, Anna May, had died six months earlier, was looking for a way to make use of free time.

Sheriff on Luke Bryan concert: ‘One way in, one way out’

Local law enforcement organizations are planning for a long, busy day and night Wednesday, when the Luke Bryan Farm Tour comes to Holtcamp Farm near Artesia.

Slimantics: It’s a brave new (tasty) world

For about an hour-and-a-half on Wednesday, it was both the best restaurant and the best classroom in town.

Lowndes Co. supes clear way for projects

Lowndes County supervisors signed off on a variety of requests linked to a pair of major projects during a board meeting Wednesday.

Renovations begin at Depot

The renovation process is underway at the historic Railroad Depot in downtown Columbus.

Voter registration ends Saturday

If you have not registered to vote in November’s general election, the clock is ticking.

Building a safer helmet

Dr. Mark Horstemeyer has a small upstairs office at Mississippi State University’s CAVS facility. In it, two things catch a visitor’s attention.

Area jobless rates continue to fall

With school back in session, unemployment rates again took a major dip throughout the state and the Golden Triangle in August.

Slimantics: The importance of storytelling

The fourth annual Possum Town Storytelling Festival begins this evening, with seven events over four days, concluding Sunday afternoon.

USDA fights endless battle of wits with ingenious beavers

In his weekly column, Columbus historian Rufus Ward often recounts the experiences of the first white settlers to move into Lowndes County in the early 19th century.

Slimantics: Will Ole Miss get over this win?

Two days before Ole Miss’ historic 43-37 win over Alabama in Tuscaloosa, former Ole Miss coach Billy Brewer talked about the last time – in fact the only time – Ole Miss had ever beaten the Tide as the visiting team.

Annunciation leads state in reading challenge

Students at Annunciation Catholic School have been wearing school uniforms for years.

But not Friday.

When Brewer turned the Tide

In his 11 years as the head football coach at Ole Miss, Columbus native Billy Brewer had some pretty good teams.

Lowndes budget flat over last year

The Lowndes County Board of Supervisors approved a 2016 Fiscal Year budget that will not require a tax increase Tuesday.

Emergency officials rally support for new 911 fees

A year ago, the Mississippi Civil Defense Emergency Managers Association, which represents emergency management operations in all 82 of the state’s counties, pushed Senate Bill 2577, also known as “Operation Quarter Back,” which would have returned an additional 25 cents of the $1 fee charged on 911 calls made by cell phones to counties to operate its E911 systems.