Retiree wins prize — a motocross motorcycle
Sammie Duck has been retired for six years now after a 39-year career in the U.S. Army.
It’s probably time to take up a hobby.
Motocross racing, maybe?
The Battle is over, and results are in
Local tomato growers recently put their all into producing the biggest fruit they could coax from Mother Earth.
Junior Duck Stamp contest open for entries
Young area artists are invited to submit entries for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2015 Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Contest.
Junior Grand Marshals for Christmas parade announced
The mini grand marshals for next Saturday’s Christmas parade have been announced. Area children competed in an art contest to vie for the spot of Junior Grand Marshal.
New Columbus resident snags shouting contest crown
Ever since he won the Stella Shouting Contest on Friday, coworkers have been calling him “the screamer.”
In fact, one of the only times Richard Jensen has not been at work lately was so that he could yell up at a balcony in downtown Columbus.
Deadline approaches for photo contest
The Friends of Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge are accepting submissions for their annual photo contest until September 15.
Teachers: Students’ Design an Ad contest extended to Dec. 20
All area students are invited to become designers in The Dispatch’s second annual Design an Ad contest. The deadline for entries, originally set for Dec. 13, has been extended to Friday, Dec. 20.
Calling all ‘Stanleys’ for ‘Stella’ shouting contest
In playful homage to Stella and Stanley Kowalski, characters in Tennessee Williams’ play “A Streetcar Named Desire,” contestants may enter the Stella Shouting Contest to yell “Stella” as loud and as heart-rending as they can, for fun and prizes. The entertaining event is part of the 12th annual Tennessee Williams Tribute taking place in Columbus Sept. 3-8.
Students show their stuff in Dispatch Design An Ad contest
The inaugural Design An Ad contest winners appear in today’s edition of The Dispatch. Complied of hand-drawn and computer generated advertisements, poems and short stories from local students, the young winners did an excellent expressing their creativity.
Almost 800 people sign up for Fla. ‘python challenge’ hunt
Nearly 800 people have signed up to hunt Burmese pythons on public lands in Florida.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is holding a month-long “Python Challenge.” Officials are offering cash prizes to whoever brings in the longest python and whoever bags the most pythons.
Songwriters invited to enter competition
All professional and amateur songwriters are invited to enter the Cotton District Arts Festival Songwriter’s Competition sponsored by McReynolds’ Orthodontics.
Vet School sponsors art contest for children
Lights, camera, action! The Mississippi State University College of Veterinary Medicine is inviting children to submit artwork that showcases animals on the “silver screen.”
Get merry: Still time to enter CAC’s holiday card decorating contest
Admittedly, most minds may be more preoccupied with sunny beaches than Santa Claus this time of year, but those holidays will roll around sooner than we think.
The Columbus Arts Council’s Holiday Card Decorating Contest will accept entries through Friday, June 29, in three age categories: age 10 and below; 11-17; and 18 and up.
Art with issues: Mississippi State University professor’s poster among display on campus
The chain link fence next to Mississippi State University’s Colvard Student Union is lined with posters from all over the world. Of the more than 4,000 submissions, Good 50×70 judges chose a poster created by Mississippi State University graphic design professor Jude Landry to be one of 210 featured in a traveling display.