Ever since Columbus stopped managing the Luxapalila Creek Park in 2020, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, which owns the land, has kept the park and boat ramp closed.
When Kevin Stafford was just a college student at Mississippi State University in the late 1990s, he spent summer afternoons tubing down the Luxapalila Creek from Propst Park with his friends.
The Tennessee - Tombigbee Waterway is a commercial and natural asset for our area. That was the message Thursday in Columbus from the Waterway's Natural Resource Manager.