Partial to Home: Small-town boys
One of the pleasures of living near downtown is the variety of options the walker has just outside his or her front door, i.e. The Riverwalk and/or soccer park, MUW campus, Friendship Cemetery.
Roses and thorns: 12-13-20
A rose to Main Street Columbus for making sure a cancelled Christmas event doesn’t go entirely for naught. Main Street Director Barbara Bigelow announced that
Ask Rufus: Watercolor Memories
I recently purchased a watercolor at the Columbus Arts Council’s gift shop at the Rosenzweig Arts Center.
Slimantics: STOP THE EGG BOWL STEAL!
Like most PATRIOTIC Mississippians, we awoke Sunday morning in great anticipation of reading about Mississippi State’s BIGLY win in the Egg Bowl on Saturday.
Namaste: Think about humans not politics
I used to get so many emails connected to surveys to fill out every month, and in most cases I take time to complete them. The political surveys are interesting.
Voice of the people: Paul Mack
Compares 2016 and 2020 vote margins Lee Roy Lollar showed his two sides in his November 27 letter to The Dispatch, these two sides seemingly
Possumhaw: What’s your hobby?
This would seem to be a good time to discuss hobbies, perhaps even start a new hobby.
Voice of the people: Bill Gillmore
Pandemics and the wild There has been a flood of research published in the last few years on the origin of brand-new human diseases that
Froma Harrop: Good times are coming
The Dow crossed 30,000 for the first time, and three promising vaccines are on the way. These are not unrelated events.
Voice of the people: Bob Raymond
Thinks police should be more flexible in helping people I was at Wal-Mart tonight (Friday) around 7:30 p.m. There was an older man in the
Partial to Home: Confessions of a leaf thief
Gardeners can be a notoriously parsimonious lot.
Roses and thorns: 11-29-20
A rose to the West Point High School football team, which will play for its fifth consecutive state championship after Friday’s 29-22 semifinal win over
Voice of the people: James Hodges
Takes issue with media bias in favor of Trump Friday’s Voice of the People included a letter by Candi Vezina, who stated the media should
Slimantics: Don’t let Hallmark ruin your Christmas
The subject for today is the Christmas movie or, more specifically, the Hallmark Channel Christmas movie.
Our View: The fire of gratitude on Thanksgiving Day
Editor’s note: This editorial first appeared in The Dispatch on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 24, 2016. Today is Thanksgiving and, if we are entirely honest with
Possumhaw: Lazy days of carp
Life’s activities have slowed down and fall has come in all its glory. The weather is mild and the colors are vivid. Late evenings often warrant sitting on the dock of the lake and watching as the day fades away.