By: Rachel Vanderford Photos By: Melanie Thortis/ UMMC Photography A decade ago, Georgia Pritchard of Sturgis was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer. But by the time she found out, the cancer had already spread from her breast to her spine and hip. Soon, the...
Aluminum processing company Owl’s Head Alloys is locating operations in Clay County. The project is a $29.245 million investment and will create 68 new jobs. Headquartered in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Owl’s Head Alloys is a secondary aluminum processor that...
Marriott Hotels is set to establish its first presence in Waveland. Waveland Hospitality LLC, the development group behind the hotel project, plans to invest a minimum of $16M dollars and construct a dual brand concept featuring the Fairfield and TownePlace Suites...
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Mississippi Book Festival. The festival has spent a decade contributing to Mississippi’s literary legacy, transforming the capitol into a literary hub that unites authors and readers for one day each year. Over the...
By Jim Beaguez On an unseasonably crisp September evening in 2021, clusters of local residents, Ole Miss students and visitors from at least as far as California made their way to the Square in Oxford. As the temperature dipped into the fifties and slid downward into...
By: Gary Pettus and Annie Oeth Eric Lucas Jr., who was 10 at the time, was on the road with his father, an emergency medicine physician, when a truck went into a slide, shot skyward and flipped over their car. “We almost got killed,” Lucas recalled many years later....
