Oakes, Swinford deserve thanks, support Two people need a hand. First, a hand goes to Donald Oakes, who readily took on the challenge of the Vicksburg Warren School District superintendent’s spot when James Price stepped down in June. O...
Labor Day could be happier Americans will celebrate Labor Day on Monday — the 126th such observance — with one looming question: “Where are the jobs?” Despite being promised not to exceed 8 percent unemployment after a $787...
Green Acres Sharp is the right one Harry Sharp came to Vicksburg in 1985 and immediately made his mark, buying a crumbling antebellum home used as headquarters for the Salvation Army and transforming it into a showplace bed and bre...
Week in Vicksburg Residents were treated to a break in the summer-long heat and humidity as high temperatures hovered around 90 degrees in Vicksburg throughout the week. Overnight lows remained steady around 70 deg...
Columnist leads mass of the uncool Through her eyes, I once was the cool uncle. Everyone who is an uncle should strive to be the cool one. Who wants to be the boring one who talks to the adults during family get-togethers? Who want...
Joseph L. Loviza is a member of the Vicksburg Warren School Board of Trustees representing District 4.
Positive reinforcement needed in dealing with public schools While I usually agree with R.G. Hollowell in his letters to the editor, this time I have a different opinion. Our public schools are not in pitiful condition, and I feel that positive reinforcemen...
Bible verse on Vicksburg business sign abhorant Driving down Clay Street recently I noticed a sign in front of a very familiar business. The sign reads, “Pray for our Nation, Psalms 109:8”. To someone who doesn’t know what this verse says this ...
Post overlooks Coast Five years ago, Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Lives were lost. Families were torn apart. To those of us that lived there, the world would never be the same. Not a day went ...
Turned off by 1490 Am I surely hope that plans include a return of Live at the Klondyke to the air. As a regular listener, I have really missed the program. I have turned the radio on a couple times, but it doesn’t eve...
