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Education
Vickburg’s Ward 1 Alderman Thomas “T.J.” Mayfield presented the latest round of AMAZE (Alderman Mayfield Award for Zeal and Excellence) awards during Friday’s regular meeting ...
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by Blake Bell, Friday, November 8, 2024 10:07 pm
Crime
The Vicksburg Police Department (VPD) is searching for two Vicksburg men wanted for aggravated assault after police said they opened fire on each other in ...
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by Blake Bell, Friday, November 8, 2024 9:17 pm
Local
An unoccupied home was “fully engulfed” by flames when Vicksburg Fire Department responded to the scene Friday morning, just before 5 a.m., according to Vicksburg ...
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by Blake Bell, Friday, November 8, 2024 11:15 am
Local
Former President Donald J. Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris to take Warren County Tuesday on a rainy election day that saw a strong voter ...
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by Blake Bell, Tuesday, November 5, 2024 10:25 pm
Education
In a tight race for the District 4 seat on the Vicksburg Warren School Board (VWSB), challenger Linda Muirhead Patterson edged incumbent Tawina Dotson by ...
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by Blake Bell, Tuesday, November 5, 2024 9:51 pm
Local
During what was an otherwise joyous occasion Tuesday that saw Vicksburg Fire Department (VFD) graduate its first class of in-house cadets, a somber shift in ...
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by Blake Bell, Sunday, November 3, 2024 9:37 am
Sports
Porter’s Chapel Academy turned on the offense Friday night in a dominant 48-22 win over Park Place in Round One of the MAIS Class 2A ...
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by Blake Bell, Saturday, November 2, 2024 12:32 am
Columnists
By the time you guys are reading this, my favorite holiday – Halloween – will be over, but it has certainly been a fun one ...
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by Blake Bell, Friday, November 1, 2024 4:18 am
Crime
The City of Tallulah will be under an indefinite curfew beginning Friday as a result of a rash of deadly shootings throughout the town over ...
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by Blake Bell, Tuesday, October 29, 2024 5:06 pm
Local
Seven new faces were officially welcomed into the Vicksburg Fire Department (VFD) family during a graduation ceremony held Tuesday at the Vicksburg Convention Center, marking ...
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by Blake Bell, Tuesday, October 29, 2024 1:44 pm
Business
Vicksburg Mayor George Flaggs Jr. was vocal about both crime and “panhandling” in Vicksburg’s downtown district during the regular meeting of the Board of Mayor ...
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by Blake Bell, Monday, October 28, 2024 3:12 pm
Crime
A second shooting that occurred on the scene of a homicide in Tallulah led to the arrest of a local man Thursday. According to information ...
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by Blake Bell, Monday, October 28, 2024 11:59 am
Crime
The Madison Parish Sheriff’s Office (MPSO), working in conjunction with the Tallulah Police Department (TPD), has made a second arrest in the Sept. 21 shooting ...
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by Blake Bell, Monday, October 28, 2024 11:23 am
Sports
Warren Central never trailed in a pivotal region win over Neshoba Central Friday at home, but it took a Herculean effort on the part of ...
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by Blake Bell, Friday, October 25, 2024 11:25 pm
Local
The Vicksburg Fire Department found itself fighting more than just fire Friday night at a home at 506 Speed Street. Vicksburg Fire Chief Derrick Stamps ...
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by Blake Bell, Friday, October 25, 2024 11:19 pm
Columnists
One of the cool things about working in the media is we often get an inside look at how things work. Whether it is government ...
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by Blake Bell, Friday, October 25, 2024 7:57 am
Lifestyles
During last week’s victory over the Manchester Academy Mavericks, the St. Aloysius family had another reason to celebrate – and reminisce – when two important ...
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by Blake Bell, Thursday, October 24, 2024 5:10 pm
Crime
Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said law enforcement is on the scene where the high-speed chase of a stolen vehicle came to an end on ...
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by Blake Bell, Monday, October 21, 2024 8:29 pm
Crime
After what law enforcement called a “brief standoff” last week at an apartment complex in Tallulah, deputies with the Madison Parish Sheriff’s Office (MPSO) arrested ...
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by Blake Bell, Monday, October 21, 2024 11:13 am
Columnists
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann for a chat about how he feels things are going in Mississippi ...
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by Blake Bell, Thursday, October 17, 2024 11:36 am
News
Mississippi Lt. Gov. and Vicksburg native Delbert Hosemann recently sat down with The Vicksburg Post and spoke about the slate of ongoing projects in Warren ...
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by Blake Bell, Tuesday, October 15, 2024 12:04 pm
News
Vicksburg Mayor George Flaggs Jr. during the Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting Thursday, Oct. 10, said he wanted to clarify how and why the ...
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by Blake Bell, Monday, October 14, 2024 2:18 pm
News
Participants and organizers enjoyed the 37th annual Germanfest at Lutheran Church of the Messiah on Saturday, Oct. 12. Photos by Blake Bell/The Vicksburg Post. For ...
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by Blake Bell, Monday, October 14, 2024 2:02 pm
Education
Both Vicksburg High School and St. Aloysius were in celebration mode this week, as the two schools wrapped up the homecoming season in the River ...
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by Blake Bell, Saturday, October 12, 2024 9:43 am
Sports
Learn to execute. That was the message Vicksburg head coach Chris Lacey was already preaching to his players before running off the field after Friday’s ...
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by Blake Bell, Friday, October 11, 2024 11:19 pm
Downtown Vicksburg
The City of Vicksburg has added a new camera to its existing inventory of more than 200 spread throughout town. Thursday afternoon, city workers installed ...
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by Blake Bell, Friday, October 11, 2024 7:07 am
Local
As this year’s Fire Prevention Week (FPW) nears its end Saturday, City of Vicksburg officials took the opportunity during Thursday’s meeting of the Board of ...
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by Blake Bell, Friday, October 11, 2024 5:42 am
Columnists
I was once told that you’ll never regret money or time spent on travel. I concur and submit that’s doubly true when it’s travel you ...
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by Blake Bell, Friday, October 11, 2024 5:12 am
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