In a special election on May 14, residents in the Columbus Municipal School District will vote whether to approve a $36 million bond for repairs and renovations to district facilities.
The recent closure of an Alabama lock demonstrates exactly why it is crucial to fund updates to infrastructure along the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, Mitch Mays, secretary and administrator of the Tenn-Tom Development Authority, told the Rotary Club of Columbus on Tuesday.
If there is anything Mississippi Rural Physicians Scholarship program’s Executive Director Wahnee Sherman hopes to communicate to college students, it’s that Mississippi needs more doctors in rural hospitals.
Lowndes County is like any other employer, Board of Supervisors President Trip Hairston told the Rotary Club of Columbus on Tuesday afternoon. It’s struggling to find people to fill vacant positions and feeling the bite of higher prices for just about everything.
When Sean Tindell was appointed commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Public Safety in May 2020, communication between his department and local law enforcement agencies had deteriorated.