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Mission Mississippi will celebrate 20 years of uniting the Body of Christ across racial and denominational lines with a celebration and worship service October 27 at JSU’s Veterans Memorial Stadium. As part of the event, a...
By ANTHONY WARREN
Sun Staff Writer
Mississippi State is back on top when it comes to popularity among the Northside’s newest high school graduates.
Two hundred seventy graduates have committed to MSU, with...
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
THE CITIES OF Madison and Ridgeland are moving forward with plans to widen and build connector roads for the new I-55 interchange.
But like the interchange itself, the connector roads...
GLUCKSTADT, Germany, is half a world away, but a few residents of the Gluckstadt on our continent are interested in displaying the area’s German roots as new businesses and buildings move in.
“It should be done in a certain...
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
A BAPTISTERY, a fellowship hall, and more Sunday school classrooms will soon complete the campus of Grace Bible Church, located on Highland Colony Parkway south of the traffic circle in...
Rev. Carol Spencer is a member of the executive committee of Working Together Jackson (WTJ). She was one of the founders of the Amos network, named after the Biblical profit, the predecessor of WTJ. Spencer lives in North Jackson with her...
By ANTHONY WARREN
Sun Staff Writer
New Summit School’s motto is “students reaching new heights.”
They’ll soon be able to reach for their goals in new classrooms and a new gymnasium.
...
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
THE NORTHBAY Property Owners Association (POA) now controls all the land that made up the former Northbay Country Club Golf Course, but for now the greens and golf-cart paths will serve as...
By ANTHONY WARREN
Sun Staff Writer
Neighborhoods on the Northside are still interested in public access gates.
Four Northeast Jackson neighborhoods have applied for public access devices, with one gate already being...
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
A WIDENING PROJECT on Old Canton Road in Madison could start in nine to 12 months, Madison Public Works Director Denson Robinson said.
Madison still has to buy the necessary...
By Anthony Warren
Sun Staff Writer
A woman’s purse being stolen recently at the I-55 North Kroger is among crimes being investigated by the Jackson police.
On May 21, a woman was loading groceries in her vehicle...
By ANTHONY WARREN
Sun Staff Writer
One of the best private day schools in the United States is right here on the Northside, at least according to a recent poll.
The Best Schools recently named St. Andrew’s...
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
WITH A NEW Madison County Board of Supervisors in place and federal funding all but dried up, it looks like widening a portion of Highway 463 is no longer a matter of politics but of money....
An affluent Chinese national with high blood pressure could help boost the local economy.
Northsiders are leading the effort to make Jackson the next hot spot for medical tourism.
Dr. Zilin Wang, a native of China who now...
By ANTHONY WARREN
Sun Staff Writer
Quentin Whitwell’s plan to turn Parham Bridges Park into a world-class tennis center continues to gain momentum.
Less than a month after learning that the Mississippi...
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
MADISON COUNTY has too many roads that need repaving and not enough money – at least probably not in this budget year.
The board of supervisors issued $7 million in bonds in...
Vince Gordon is area director for Young Life Inner City Jackson (Urban Young Life). Gordon is a 1982 graduate of Lanier High School and a 10-year veteran of the United States Navy. He recently spoke to Sun Staff Writer Anthony Warren about the...
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
MADISON COUNTY supervisors say they would still consider possible budget increases for departments in the coming fiscal year, though they voted unanimously last week to ask department heads...
By ANTHONY WARREN
Sun Staff Writer
New plantings and signage are on tap for one of the Northside’s major intersections, thanks to the efforts of two area nonprofit groups.
The LeFleur East Foundation and Fondren...
The historic Belhaven Neighborhood will present Art for the Park (AFTP) benefiting Laurel Street Park Thursday, May 16 from 6:30 until 9:30 p.m. at the Fairview Inn. AFTP is a biannual event organized by the Friends of Laurel...
By ANTHONY WARREN
Sun Staff Writer
Efforts to give Thalia Mara Hall a facelift before the 2014 International Ballet Competition (IBC) recently got a million-dollar boost.
The Mississippi Legislature included a $1...
GRADY HOWELL knows the exact date when he became a historian.
Go figure.
“It was July 3, 1955. I was eight years old, and it was the first time I’d seen Vicksburg,” Howell says.
“Before that...
By KATIE EUBANKS
Sun Staff Writer
MADISON COUNTY might be able to get out of a contribution agreement in November if the Parkway East Public Improvement District (PID) doesn’t come up with about $374,000.
Under...
Mona Nicholas is the president of the Friends of the USA International Ballet Competition (IBC), held in Jackson. A Vicksburg native who has danced all her life, Nicholas lives in Jackson with her husband, Chris, and two daughters. She recently...
In a recent article David Sanders attempts to make the case that progressives are moving the country toward totalitarianism. Yet, the tone of his article reflects the same strategy totalitarians have historically used to gain and maintain...
