by Susan Marquez, Magnolia Tribune The wide-ranging program for the 83rd National Folk Festival is returning to Downtown Jackson November 13 through 15 for the second year of its three-year residency. The free festival shines a spotlight on Mississippi...
NASA tested RS-25 engine No. 10001 on Oct. 21 on the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Test teams fired the developmental engine for almost eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds), the same amount of time RS-25...
by Jeremy Pittari, Magnolia Tribune Leaders at Mississippi’s two largest universities have received a contract extension and pay increase. Approval of those employment changes occurred during the September 17 meeting of the Board of Trustees for the...
by Meredith Biesinger, Magnolia Tribune A Mississippi bakery made Oprah’s O List. Its red velvet cake earned a spot in The New York Times Holiday Gift Guide. And people from one end of the country to the other have ordered its desserts for birthdays,...
by Roscoe Barnes III, Ph.D., Visit Natchez The Natchez Historical Society and Dr. Robert Prospere have agreed to contribute a combined $2,850 toward a state historical marker commemorating Fort Valeur, a wooden stockade associated with the 1729 Natchez...
Mississippi Supreme Court Administrator and Counsel Hubbard T. Saunders IV of Jackson died on October 18. He was 75. A celebration of life service is scheduled for Saturday, October 24, at 11 a.m. at Fondren Presbyterian Church, 3220 Old Canton Road in Jackson....
