CVB touts marketing, lobby efforts that kept Mississippi open ‘safely’ during pandemic
The tourism industry in Mississippi, including Columbus Convention and Visitors Bureau, received millions of dollars in federal money to ensure the state could safely stay open for visitors during the COVID-19 pandemic, CVB Executive Director Nancy Carpenter told members of the Columbus Exchange Club during their weekly luncheon at Lion Hills Thursday.
Last House on the Block slowly building back residents
By April, Last House of the Block for men was down to five residents.
But it wasn’t COVID-19 that left 17 of the sober-living facility’s 22 beds empty, at least directly, said director Billy Jordan.
Homeless Coalition’s funds diminished during pandemic; need has not
When the subject of poverty and homelessness comes up, a popular saying is never far from the lips: “Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”
For all its merits, the old Chinese proverb diminishes the urgency of the immediate need. A hungry person needs food now.
Isolation proving tough challenge for addicts during pandemic
The effects of COVID-19 are not limited to illness or death, but manifest in ways that impact even those who never test positive.
Hundreds of absentee ballots already requested, cast for general election
There are more than 40,672 registered voters in Lowndes County, with more people registering every day, Circuit Clerk Teresa Barksdale said.
“And I think they’ve all been in the office this week,” she told Columbus Exchange Club, of which she is a member, at its weekly meeting at Lion Hills Center on Thursday.
Columbus volunteer surprised with Book of Golden Deeds Award
Betty Clyde Sharp almost didn’t make it to the Columbus Exchange Club’s weekly meeting on Thursday.
She had an early morning doctor’s appointment in Birmingham. On her way back, she received a text saying Exchange Club President Jerry Fortenberry would be speaking at the meeting, which was at noon at Lion Hills Center.
Trinity Place Retirement Community says it’s recovering after COVID-19 outbreaks
Following dozens of COVID-19 cases among its residents and employees over the past weeks, Trinity Place Retirement Community is now seeing improvements as patients recover and staffing levels rise, Community Outreach Director Rhonda Richardson told Columbus Exchange Club members at Lion Hills Center on Thursday afternoon.
‘Everybody knows somebody that has had coronavirus’
Ten percent of the deaths in the United States this year have been related to COVID-19 coronavirus.
That was just one of many numbers Dr. Lee Richardson, an emergency room doctor at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle, doled out when he spoke about the ongoing pandemic to the Columbus Exchange Club at their weekly meeting Thursday.
CMSD patrons ‘gather at the river’
In the past few years, Jason Spears, Columbus Municipal School District’s board of trustees president, said he has seen more district patrons “gathering at the river.”
Preservation society’s goals go beyond historic home tours
Kathy Novotny is fine with being known as the woman who lives in Dixie Butler’s house.
Hawkins: Black market hijacks vaping, makes it more dangerous
Nature abhors a vacuum.
That goes for human nature, too.
During Thursday’s Exchange Club luncheon at Lion Hills Center, Eddie Hawkins of Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics noted the emergence of vaping as a form of recreational drug use has emerged as a public health threat.
Columbus ‘liver mom’ champions organ donation
Margaret Rollins is happy to report that her 2-1/2-year-old daughter Adeline now weighs two pounds more than her 4-year-old son.
Chancery clerk candidates vow to keep office business as usual
In a departure from the usual candidate for political office, the hopefuls for Lowndes County chancery clerk who spoke to a crowd of Columbus Exchange Club members Thursday stressed that they didn’t want to change anything about how the clerk’s office works.
Heritage alumnus wins Trooper of the Year
When Jarrett Eller arrived at Lion Hills Center on Thursday, folks were happy to see him.
Community Counseling seeks to treat underlying causes of addiction
Keenyn Wald, director of Alcohol and Drug Services at Community Counseling Center in Columbus, believes it takes more than quitting “cold-turkey” to overcome addiction.
A quiet, ‘get-it-done’ community servant
In 1980, Brenda Laws Comer’s grandfather, John Laws, was one of the first people to receive the Book of Golden Deeds Award from Columbus Exchange Club.
Room to grow: PACCAR communication manager talks hiring, benefits of Lowndes plant
When a Kenworth or Peterbilt tractor-trailer rolls down the highway, there’s an 80 percent chance that truck’s engine was built in Lowndes County.
Sports betting takes off in Mississippi
Legal sports betting has been in Mississippi for just a month and at Pearl River Resort for only a week.
Parking tickets and police escorts: SEC ref tells tales from the road
When Southeastern Conference official Stan Murray arrived at Kyle Field in College Station, Texas, hours before kickoff of a Texas A&M game last fall, he was looking for his designated parking spot — Lot 62, Space 710.