Articles by Yue Stella Yu
City planning session aims to develop long-term goals for all departments
City of Columbus officials and staff laid out department goals for 2020 during a Thursday planning session, addressing frugal spending, crime prevention, as well as other city policies.
Supes approve purchase of multi-purpose floor at Crawford gym
The Crawford Elementary School gym is getting a new floor. But not the kind its district county supervisor Jeff Smith would like to see.
Fear and resiliency: Chinese natives in Golden Triangle combat coronavirus anxieties with hope, action
On a late-January flight back from Shanghai to Starkville, Ronghua Wu lost sleep.
Bringing home the drama: CMS wins multiple awards at state theater competition
Sometimes, when he played Othello on stage, Khye Hairston couldn’t stop crying even after the scene was over.
‘Stop the Bleed’ hopes to educate the public on bleeding control in cases of emergency
If you suffered an arterial cut, the bleeding would claim your life within three minutes.
That’s according to Joe Nettles, trauma coordinator at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle, who spoke to Columbus Rotary Club members at their weekly meeting at Lion Hills Center Tuesday.
Carpenter: Pilgrimage may move forward without Preservation Society homeowners
Nothing seems to be missing from the poster for the Columbus, Mississippi Spring Pilgrimage this year.
Whitehall, an 1843 antebellum home that has welcomed Pilgrimage visitors in the door for 13 years, is featured front and center. Familiar events, such as Catfish in the Alley, Tales from the Crypt and the Pilgrimage 5K Run, are listed near the bottom.
Drifting barge may have caused damage to pedestrian bridge support pier
The damage to a pier supporting the pedestrian bridge at the Columbus Riverwalk may have been caused by a collision between the foundation and a drifting barge, city officials said in a Monday press release.
‘Good Times’ star reflects on childhood, relationship with mother at West Point event
Bern Nadette Stanis remembers herself being upset one night. No one at the school would play with her, she recalled, no matter how hard she tried.
Supes shell out $41K for additional firefighter radios
Lowndes County Volunteer Fire Services will receive 12 additional radios and pagers it requested for its new volunteer firefighters, the board of supervisors decided during its Monday meeting.
Council tables renovation of Propst Park train
When he once again asked for funding from the city to renovate the train that has sat idle next to Main Street for decades, Paul Swain, who had been working to maintain the project, did not immediately get the support from the city like he used to.
Lowndes could land $200M solar farm project
A $200 million solar farm that would both generate and store electric power could come to Lowndes County after supervisors approved a resolution of intent Monday morning to offer a fee-in-lieu agreement to help bring the power company to the area.
Japanese native realizes dream of living abroad in Columbus
By the time she was 20, Tamami Sugo had never been on the back of a motorcycle.
Thunderbirds to return to Wings Over Columbus air show in April
The United States Air Force Thunderbirds will again take flight over Columbus Air Force Base in the spring air show, Lt. Col. Armand Fondren told Columbus Exchange Club members at the Lion Hills Club Thursday afternoon.
CFR lands $500K pumper truck through grant, rebate money
Pumper trucks don’t always come cheap.
But the one parked outside the Columbus City Hall on Tuesday morning, the latest addition to Columbus Fire and Rescue’s fleet, was not a cost the city had to bear.
LINK pitches road projects to legislative delegation
Five road projects across the Golden Triangle area could help keep current companies and attract more potential businesses, Golden Triangle Development LINK CEO Joe Max Higgins said at a breakfast event with local lawmakers Monday morning.
City stays ‘frugal’ as spending, hiring freezes lifted
An eight-month hiring freeze, which was implemented in April to avert a potential financial crisis that could have left the city in the red by October, has come to an end, said Columbus Mayor Robert Smith.
CVB will provide Juneteenth full funding in advance
The local Juneteenth Festival will receive its full $15,000 from the Columbus-Lowndes Convention and Visitors Bureau up front this year, a departure from previous CVB policy regarding festival funding.
Crawford gym renovation underway
Long before she became an alderman of Crawford, Sabrina Washington was a basketball player for the Crawford Jaguars, the local elementary school basketball team, in the 1980s.
Council rejects Southside historic designation
Despite strong support from many Southside residents, Columbus City Council voted 4-2 Tuesday against applying for a federal grant to survey buildings in the neighborhood, the first step to designating the neighborhood as a Local Historic District.
DA calls for prisoner clemency, guard raises
As riots rock Mississippi prisons and continue to claim lives, 16th Circuit District Attorney Scott Colom called for actions from state leadership Monday to improve Mississippi’s detention system at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Unity Breakfast in Columbus.