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Downtown Vicksburg
St. Aloysius High School’s Spanish II teacher Vivian Velazquez knows the best way to a student’s head is sometimes through the stomach. Velazquez made good ...
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by Blake Bell, Tuesday, April 9, 2024 10:42 pm
Local
The Vicksburg National Military Park drew a crowd for Monday’s eclipse, despite heavy cloud cover that made it a peek-when-you-could event. National Park Service Ranger ...
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by Blake Bell, Monday, April 8, 2024 2:51 pm
Downtown Vicksburg
The Downtown Vicksburg Main Street Program has been selected as one of only 18 in Mississippi communities to receive the Rural Community Development Initiative (RCDI) ...
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by Blake Bell, Saturday, April 6, 2024 9:18 am
Education
As graduation looms only months away for college and high school students alike, institutions in Warren County are working on both levels to ensure students ...
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by Blake Bell, Friday, April 5, 2024 11:10 pm
Local
A Friday-afternoon house fire at 1401 Division Street is the latest in a string of structure fires across Vicksburg in recent weeks. Vicksburg Fire Chief ...
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by Blake Bell, Friday, April 5, 2024 7:14 pm
Local
Vicksburg Mayor George Flaggs Jr. announced Friday that mayoral secretary Jacqueline Walker will be stepping down from her position effective June 30, and has announced ...
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by Blake Bell, Friday, April 5, 2024 1:20 pm
Local
The City of Vicksburg will make official two new appointments during an event scheduled for Wednesday, Mayor George Flaggs Jr. announced Friday morning. According to ...
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by Blake Bell, Friday, April 5, 2024 11:17 am
Local
The second solar eclipse in just over six months will be visible Monday and the Vicksburg National Military Park is offering its prime real estate ...
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by Blake Bell, Thursday, April 4, 2024 9:00 pm
Local
Vicksburg Fire Chief Derrick Stamps said the string of house fires across Vicksburg in recent weeks have not been related, but that’s no reason for ...
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by Blake Bell, Wednesday, April 3, 2024 2:00 pm
Local
Monday brought with it a reshuffling of duties at Vicksburg City Hall as a new assistant city attorney was sworn in, while City Attorney Kimberly ...
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by Blake Bell, Tuesday, April 2, 2024 2:18 pm
Crime
The Vicksburg Police Department (VPD) on Tuesday released information regarding four separate shooting incidents, three of which remain as open investigations. VPD initially reached out ...
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by Blake Bell, Tuesday, April 2, 2024 1:11 pm
Local
Both the City of Vicksburg and Warren County declared April Child Abuse Prevention Month at Monday’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen and County Board of ...
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by Blake Bell, Monday, April 1, 2024 2:47 pm
Local
Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said the goal of the Warren County Sheriff’s Office is a simple one: finding a way to make the community ...
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by Blake Bell, Sunday, March 31, 2024 2:57 pm
Local
Like many little boys growing up, Vicksburg native Neal Pryor wanted to be a firefighter when he was young. Today, the husband and father of ...
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by Blake Bell, Sunday, March 31, 2024 7:42 am
Local
When Leland Keith Rogers, a 28-year veteran of the Vicksburg Fire Department and former VFD chief, passed away this week, many of his former colleagues ...
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by Blake Bell, Saturday, March 30, 2024 9:20 pm
Columnists
I’m going to tell you a story about the hardest situation I ever covered, and I’ll warn you ahead of time, it isn’t for the ...
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by Blake Bell, Saturday, March 30, 2024 6:11 pm
Crime
Vicksburg Police Department (VPD) is reaching out to the public for help identifying suspects involved in a shooting Saturday morning at Jacques’ Bar on Levee ...
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by Blake Bell, Saturday, March 30, 2024 9:19 am
News
City of Vicksburg officials are alerting residents of ongoing work to water meters around town. Thursday afternoon, the Board of Mayor and Aldermen issued an ...
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by Blake Bell, Friday, March 29, 2024 8:39 pm
News
No one was injured in a fire that broke out in a vacant home Friday morning in Vicksburg. Vicksburg Fire Chief Derrick Stamps said the ...
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by Blake Bell, Friday, March 29, 2024 12:42 pm
Local
Both Rep. Bennie Thompson and Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith were in Vicksburg this week attending events and taking time to speak to residents. Thompson served as ...
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by Blake Bell, Friday, March 29, 2024 7:28 am
Business
After years of planning, developing, and building, an official grand opening and ribbon-cutting was held Thursday for the Thad Cochran MCITy building on Washington Street. ...
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by Blake Bell, Thursday, March 28, 2024 6:56 pm
Local
Former president of the Mississippi Chapter of Blacks in Government (BIG) Dennis R. Butler was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award during BIG’s 27th Annual Black ...
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by Blake Bell, Wednesday, March 27, 2024 3:32 pm
Columnists
As we near the end of Holy Week, it is always a humbling time for me when I sit and think about how the events ...
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by Blake Bell, Wednesday, March 27, 2024 2:29 pm
News
The streets of Rolling Fork are still lined with debris and buildings ripped apart still sit exposed one year after a deadly EF-4 tornado rocked ...
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by Blake Bell, Wednesday, March 27, 2024 7:32 am
Local
When Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed early Tuesday morning after being struck by a container ship, comments began flooding Vicksburg groups on social media. ...
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by Blake Bell, Tuesday, March 26, 2024 11:50 pm
Local
During a somber meeting of the Vicksburg Board of Mayor and Alderman Monday morning, the late Ward 1 Alderman Michael Mayfield’s seat was officially vacated ...
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by Blake Bell, Monday, March 25, 2024 3:55 pm
News
Violinist Daniel Jones performed Friday at the Church of the Holy Trinity as the last in the 2024 Lenten Fine Art Series that began in ...
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by Blake Bell, Friday, March 22, 2024 11:12 pm
Crime
Warren County District Attorney Ricky Smith Jr. on Friday said murder suspect Byron Griffin will be retried by the state following a mistrial this week. ...
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by Blake Bell, Friday, March 22, 2024 11:36 am
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