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BREAKING NEWS
The Downtown Christmas Parade of Lights, originally scheduled for Saturday, has been postponed to Dec. 10. Kim Hopkins, executive director of Main Street, said the ...
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by Jan Griffey, Thursday, December 1, 2016 5:50 pm
Columnists
I’m almost in the Christmas spirit. For me, that’s something pretty unusual. As an adult, Christmas becomes more of a chore, rather than a wonder, ...
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by Jan Griffey, Saturday, November 26, 2016 8:24 pm
Faith
Tom Isaac and his wife, Debra, have family out of state. But for Thanksgiving this year, they chose not to travel. Instead, the Isaacs volunteered ...
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by Jan Griffey, Friday, November 25, 2016 8:26 pm
Obits
Funeral services for Marcie R. Hollis-Johnson will be Saturday, Nov. 26, in the Word of Faith Church at 10 a.m. with the Rev. Reginald Walker ...
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by Jan Griffey, Friday, November 25, 2016 9:53 am
Local
County engineer John McKee presented the Warren County Board of Supervisors with three options for it to consider for its crane project at the Port ...
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by Jan Griffey, Tuesday, November 15, 2016 9:49 am
Columnists
We need to follow the lead of our President and First Lady now. “When they go low, we go high.” The amazing grace of our ...
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by Jan Griffey, Saturday, November 12, 2016 10:44 pm
News
Despite rhetoric from national candidates and some state elected officials claiming the upcoming presidential election will be “rigged,” Warren County voters don’t have to be ...
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by Jan Griffey, Monday, November 7, 2016 9:52 am
Local
Few are as busy in Vicksburg these days as those who work in Circuit Clerk Jan Daigre’s office in the Warren County Courthouse. Daigre and ...
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by Jan Griffey, Wednesday, November 2, 2016 11:55 am
Columnists
We’re just over a week from being done with this presidential election, which should please us all, regardless of which side of the aisle you ...
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by Jan Griffey, Saturday, October 29, 2016 8:12 pm
Education
The design of the future of education in Vicksburg schools was honed Tuesday morning. About 50 people — a mix of a school personnel and ...
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by Jan Griffey, Wednesday, October 26, 2016 9:31 am
Local
The Warren County Board of Supervisors on Monday previewed a contract it will be asked to approve in order for the Warren County Port ...
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by Jan Griffey, Tuesday, October 11, 2016 9:30 am
News
Today’s pink edition, meant to celebrate the lives of breast cancer survivors and remember those who fought the good fight and are no longer with ...
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by Jan Griffey, Saturday, October 8, 2016 6:10 pm
Local
Evelyn Weaver loves a good boot camp. She enjoys the sweating, the physical exertion and challenge and has always worked hard to stay fit ...
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by Jan Griffey, Saturday, October 8, 2016 6:06 pm
Local
If you plan to vote in the Nov. 8 general election, you have until Saturday to register to vote. The good thing is, Warren ...
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by Jan Griffey, Wednesday, October 5, 2016 9:50 am
Local
The truck Michael Collins was driving the day he backed into the Mississippi River while waiting to pick up a load of rock, had ...
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by Jan Griffey, Wednesday, October 5, 2016 9:44 am
Opinion
I grew up reading newspapers, as many people my age — 54 — did. In my large household of five children, my stepfather and I were the ...
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by Jan Griffey, Saturday, October 1, 2016 8:56 pm
Local
Will Vicksburg native Delbert Hosemann, Mississippi’s Secretary of State, be Mississippi’s next lieutenant governor? That’s a distinct possibility. Hosemann was in Vicksburg last week with ...
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by Jan Griffey, Tuesday, September 27, 2016 10:08 am
News
Let’s talk football. For me, it is truly the most wonderful time of the year. The only thing better than college football is March Madness. ...
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by Jan Griffey, Saturday, September 24, 2016 7:50 pm
Local
In a pre-dawn roundup, tagged by law enforcement as Operation Fall Sweep, law enforcement arrested nine people. The arrests are the result of a four-month-long ...
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by Jan Griffey, Thursday, September 22, 2016 1:13 pm
Local
The Warren County Board of Supervisors honored Doug Arp, a retired, longtime Vicksburg Police Department officer, who organizes the community’s National Night Out event each ...
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by Jan Griffey, Tuesday, September 20, 2016 9:44 am
Local
A Vicksburg woman is in custody after shooting her husband in the head and killing him. Vicksburg Chief of Police Walter Armstrong said Becky Harris ...
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by Jan Griffey, Tuesday, September 13, 2016 6:53 am
Opinion
No doubt, all of us today will at times think back to 15 years ago and recall our reaction when we heard the news about ...
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by Jan Griffey, Saturday, September 10, 2016 9:10 pm
News
Courtland Wells has joined the staff of The Vicksburg Post as a photojournalist. Wells, a native of Tuscaloosa, Ala., is 2016 graduate of the University ...
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by Jan Griffey, Friday, September 9, 2016 10:52 pm
News
The old rectory building at St. Mary Catholic Church is coming down. Built in 1906 as part of the original construction of the church, the ...
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by Jan Griffey, Tuesday, September 6, 2016 9:57 am
Local
Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace has confirmed that the body of Michael Collins has been recovered. Collins, an employee of Riverside Construction, was driving the ...
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by Jan Griffey, Friday, September 2, 2016 5:49 pm
Uncategorized
Unconfirmed reports indicate searchers may have found a body in the Mississippi River, while searching for Michael Collins, who was the driver of the dump ...
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by Jan Griffey, Friday, September 2, 2016 4:39 pm
Local
The ongoing boil water notice in the city of Vicksburg and its accompanying loss of water pressure put the hurt on many Vicksburg businesses Tuesday. ...
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by Jan Griffey, Wednesday, August 31, 2016 9:56 am
BREAKING NEWS
The pumps at the Vicksburg water treatment plant on Haining Road are back up and city water customers should be getting water pressure, city Public ...
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by Jan Griffey, Tuesday, August 30, 2016 11:48 am
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