Shower Power, a nonprofit helping downtown Jackson’s unhoused population, is the beneficiary of the 42nd WellsFest Music Festival. The popular, family-friendly event will be 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 26, at the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry...
By Roscoe Barns III, Ph.D., Visit Natchez Natchez National Historical Park has installed new interpretive wayside panels at the Forks of the Road site, featuring narratives drawn from U.S. Colored Troops pension records. The exhibits, which replace...
By: Annie Oeth/ UMMC Communications Photos By: Jay Ferchaud/ UMMC Communications Ashley Castle had almost given up hope in her fight against bile duct cancer. She needed a liver transplant, “and we had four to five dry runs,” said Castle, a Meridian native...
Bishopric Industries, formerly known as Enerfab Process Solutions, is expanding its operations in Natchez through a $5.75 million investment that will create 28 new jobs, state and local officials announced. The company is a leader in the engineering, fabrication and...
By Roscoe Barnes III, Ph.D., Visit Natchez Dr. Robert Field Jr. is a veterinarian-turned-wildlife photographer whose love of nature and photography has landed him in some dangerous places. One late afternoon during the early fall of 2017, Field was near...
By Jeremy Pittari, Magnolia Tribune Several changes are occurring within Mississippi’s youth court system, with one of those being the shift to presumptively open court rooms, meaning the public can attend hearings and gain insight into the proceedings....
