COLUMBUS The City Council met in regular session March 13 to discuss the appointment of an associate judge and conduct a second reading regarding expenditures.
“I met this young man when he was around 19 years old,” said retired New Orleans Police Department Lt. Ira Thomas. “. When he learned I was a police officer, he kind of latched onto me. He wanted to know everything about being a police officer.”
Across the United States, public schools are undergoing a teaching staff crisis, and Mississippi is not immune to the shortage despite now having entry level salaries higher than the national average.
Columbus Municipal and Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated school districts both moved up a letter grade in the Mississippi Department of Education’s Accountability Ratings, while Lowndes County remains the region’s only A public school district.