Education
On stage: Students at Vicksburg High School are set to perform ‘Grease’
When “Grease” was released in 1978 by Paramount Pictures, the musical romantic comedy film became an instant hit. It’s now 46 years later and Vicksburg ...
When “Grease” was released in 1978 by Paramount Pictures, the musical romantic comedy film became an instant hit. It’s now 46 years later and Vicksburg ...
On Thursday, I met Kelley Biedenharn Cox. Her great-great uncle Joseph Biedenharn first bottled the soda fountain drink, Coca-Cola, and Kelley was at the Rum ...
It’s been a while since I talked politics. But on Thursday, after I listened to the President of the United States give his State of ...
I should have planned better. My oldest three children’s birthdays are each about two weeks apart, starting on Feb. 25, so I started calling this ...
One of my assignments this week required me to visit a school cafeteria, and by chance it was Beechwood Elementary School, where my grandsons attend. ...
When St. Aloysius High School teacher Chesley Lambiotte chose “Matilda the Musical” for this year’s school production, she had no idea how much enthusiasm the ...
Before the first ticket is sold, or the curtain rises, much time is spent preparing for an opening night performance. There are parts to be ...
When I was a child, I remember times when a peer or my younger brother would try to employ me to do something I didn’t ...
For months fifth and sixth grade students from Bowmar Elementary School have been preparing for a production the entire family can enjoy. So, come ride ...
After President Lyndon B. Johnson had a heart attack in 1964, he issued the first proclamation proclaiming February American Heart Month. Every president since has ...
Last year, Vicksburg hosted its first ever Bill Dance Mississippi River Monsters Mega Bucs Pro Series Catfish Tournament. The event brought hundreds to the River ...
Orientation was held last weekend to help prepare contestants for the upcoming Miss Mississippi Competition and the Miss Mississippi Teen Competition. The event included taking ...
“A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream” is one of William Shakespeare’s most notable and widely performed plays. The comedy has a bevy of subplots within the storyline, ...
Jack Burns attended a show at the New Stage Theatre in Jackson entitled “Best of Enemies.” This would seem a likely outing for Burns. He ...
A couple of weeks ago, I went to the Strand Theatre to do some prep work on a story I would be doing for an ...
PFor the third time in under a month, community members gathered for a ribbon cutting as a new business joined the ranks of the Vicksburg-Warren ...
Laura Leigh Dorman had always wanted her grandfather, Leon Gilmer — lovingly known by his grandchildren as Baddaddy — to walk her down the aisle. ...
To prevent rain from dampening one’s wedding day, a Southern legend claims that if you bury a bottle of bourbon at the location of your ...
Fireworks literally went off when Sebastian Rigdon proposed to Vicksburg native Tess Frazier, and it was the enchantment of that Fourth of July evening that ...
Brandon Teller and Tori Rowland were young when they first met. Both were 14 years old and in high school. Obviously, it would be years ...
Stuardt Saxton had meticulously planned the evening he was going to ask Vicksburg native Megan Holland to marry him. There was just one thing he ...
Despite an Arctic blast in the River City last weekend, the Beautiful Table Settings Bash event was a success. Participants from as far away as ...
With the prompting from mutual friends, Matthew (Matt) Mims and Demetra (Demi) Leara met up at the bowling alley in Oxford. Little did the couple ...
Under an enchanting wooden arbor crafted by her father and laden with blue and white flowers, twinkling lights, and a crystal chandelier, Sarah Kate Smith ...
When Vicksburg native Wailes Kemp met Grace Bomba in 2020 at the Drift — a trendy bar in the Houston Heights area — it didn’t ...
It was during the cherished first look a father shares with his daughter on her wedding day when Cameron Curtis was presented with a lapel ...
When William Burnett and Meagan Smith were trying to decide where to hold their wedding, they considered several chic venues in Austin, Texas. They also ...
When Benji Corley was born, like all newborns in the U.S., a few drops of blood from a heel prick were drawn from his tiny ...