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ON THE SHELF: New Adult Fiction that’ll take you somewhere new

This column was submitted by Evangeline Cessna, Local History Librarian at the Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library. This week’s ...

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FROM THE VAULT: On a Roll for 80 years

By the Late Gordon Cotton | Originally published in The Vicksburg Post on Feb. 13, 2017 OAK RIDGE ...

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LOOKING BACK: The history of a Washington Street mainstay

Nancy Bell | Vicksburg Foundation for Historic Preservation  This two-story commercial building at 1105 Washington St. was built ...

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GUEST COLUMN: Decision on felony suffrage hinges on understanding state amendment process

By Bobby Harrison | Mississippi Today Whether United States Supreme Court justices take the time to understand how ...

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ON THE SHELF: Young Adult titles to bring out the angst in all of us

This column was submitted by Evangeline Cessna, Local History Librarian at the Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library. This week, ...

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GUEST COLUMN: Register for the Mississippi College Savings Art Contest

By Treasurer David McRae | Guest Columnist What do you want to be when you grow up? We ...

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GUEST COLUMN: 7 Healthy Habits for the New Year and Beyond

Making new year’s resolutions is a common tradition, but 77 percent of people who make them, break them ...

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LOOKING BACK: A classic example of Vicksburg pierced columns

By Nancy Bell | Vicksburg Foundation for Historic Preservation  This large three-bay Italianate townhouse at 800 Walnut St. ...

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ON THE SHELF: Large-Print Fiction titles for your reading list

This column was submitted by Evangeline Cessna, Local History Librarian at the Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library. This week ...

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GUEST COLUMN: Voting is a Right and Responsibility

By Caiya Nettle | Guest Columnist Voting is a right and responsibility that we as citizens of the ...

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LOOKING BACK: 1204 Washington St., lost to Urban Renewal but etched in Vicksburg’s merchant history

By Nancy  Bell | Vicksburg Foundation for Historic Preservation This commercial building at 1204 Washington St. was located ...

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ON THE SHELF: The library’s newest page-turners

This column was submitted by Evangeline Cessna, Local History Librarian at the Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library. This week ...

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GUEST COLUMN: America’s Pilot Pipeline Runs Through Mississippi

By U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker | Guest Columnist  In the movie “Top Gun,” San Diego is referred to ...

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LOOKING BACK: Continuing the stroll down Monroe Street

By Nancy Bell | Vicksburg Foundation for Historic Preservation This is a photograph of 707 Monroe St. and ...

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GUEST COLUMN: U.S. House speaker chaos proves it could happen again in Mississippi

by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today In terms of political theatre, there is nothing like a speaker’s race. That ...

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GUEST COLUMN: A Look Back and Forward

By Treasurer David McRae | Guest Columnist I want to wish everyone a very happy new year! Before ...

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GUEST COLUMN: Wicker Outlines Conservative Priorities for 2023

By U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker | Guest Columnist As 2023 arrives, lawmakers will return to Washington to kick ...

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SMART MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Avatar’ sequel demands viewing on the big screen

By Ian Omar Smart | Guest Columnist Now playing at the B&B Theater at the Vicksburg Mall in ...

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Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus

Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was ...

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OTHER OPINION: Ethics Commission making grave mistake removing Legislature from Open Meetings Act

What could be more asinine, more capable of stretching credulity than the Mississippi Ethics Commission’s saying the Legislature ...

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LOOKING BACK: 709 Monroe St. and the families that called it home

Editor’s Note: In a previous version of this story, the address was listed as 709 Grove St. The ...

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ON THE SHELF: Easy reads for a cozy Christmas

This column was submitted by Evangeline Cessna, Local History Librarian at the Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library. This week ...

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SMART MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Bones and All’ brings beauty, ugliness in equal measure

By Ian Omar Smart | Guest Columnist Now playing at the B&B Theater at the Vicksburg Mall, Luca ...

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LOOKING BACK: A tale of the Jackson Street YMCA and the lady who made it possible

By Nancy Bell, Vicksburg Foundation for Historic Preservation In July 1919, a meeting was held to announce that ...

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ON THE SHELF: Jingle Books, Jingle Books, Jingle all the way

This column was submitted by Evangeline Cessna, Local History Librarian at the Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library. This week ...

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LOOKING BACK: The long life of one of Vicksburg’s most stunning buildings — the The Junius W. Johnson Memorial YMCA

By Nancy Bell, Vicksburg Foundation for Historic Preservation Twenty-two-year-old George Williams founded the first YMCA in London in ...

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GUEST COLUMN: Outside-the-Box Holiday Gifts

By Treasurer David McRae | Guest Columnist My kids have been assembling their Christmas lists for months now ...

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ON THE SHELF: Festive titles for Christmas readers

This column was submitted by Evangeline Cessna, Local History Librarian at the Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library. This week ...

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