The Mississippi Farmers Market is expanding access to fresh, locally grown produce and agricultural products this summer with another weekday market day on Wednesday, July 15. Shoppers can visit the Market from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. this Wednesday in addition...
By: Only In Mississippi The Stamps family bought a grocery store and meat market on Dalton Street in Jackson in 1970. They ran it as a grocery for a decade. Then one Sunday afternoon, patriarch Algernon Stamps Sr. wanted a hamburger, walked to the store, and...
By Frank Corder, Magnolia Tribune Bus operators associated with the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local-1208, which represents over 60 of the cities’ public transit system employees, have gone on strike as of July 13 at 4 a.m. JTRAN is operated under...
by Marilyn Biesinger, Magnolia Tribune Mississippi is filled with historic homes, each with its own stories, secrets, and memories tucked within weathered walls and beneath wide Southern porches. Some stand quietly as reminders of the past....
By Jeremy Pittari, Magnolia Tribune The first certificate of need exemption under the newly created Small Community Hospital Pilot Program has been granted to a hospital in the City of Magnolia. The CON exemption for Beacham Hospital will allow the...
By Roscoe Barnes III, Ph.D., Visit Natchez Mayor Dan Gibson presented a proclamation Monday officially recognizing July 13 as Julyteenth, the day freedom for enslaved people came to Natchez with the arrival of the Union Army on July 13, 1863. “This...
