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NATCHEZ, Miss. – Plans are underway for beginning the final phase of completing Adams County’s Belwood levee that’s being built to protect a prime industrial site from Mississippi River floods. A groundbreaking ceremony is to be scheduled, said Chandler Russ, executive director of Natchez Inc., the city-county’s industrial development agency. He and Adams County supervisors…

  NATCHEZ —At least five or six incidents of card fraud have been reported locally over the past two days that seem to be linked to skimming devices at some local grocery stores, Natchez Police Chief Cal Green said. Skimming occurs when devices are illegally installed on or inside point-of-sale terminals, ATMs or fuel pumps…

NATCHEZ, Miss. – Long-delayed construction work for Morgantown Road that’s been beset by inflated costs is expected to begin soon after Natchez officials decided to put off plans for rebuilding Silver Street and rebudget its money to advance Morgantown. Natchez Mayor Dan Gibson, city aldermen and Adams County supervisors have been struggling to come up…

NATCHEZ, Miss. – The renovation of the Natchez Convention Center will be going into another phase with nearly $1 million city aldermen approved Monday for contracting a Natchez construction company to do the work. The various improvements being done will make it “the most talked-about convention center when people visit,” said Mayor Dan Gibson. “It…

  What do you know about what was happening in our world sixty years ago? Some folks lived and breathed it. Some know very little. But these often little-understood local stories are vital American stories, and we all should know them. Kathleen Bond From today’s perspective, the rigid social and economic system of racial segregation…

  NATCHEZ — The City of Natchez and the Adams County Board of Supervisors have finalized plans to fund and get started on the long-awaited Morgantown Road Drainage and Road Improvement, as well as come to a final agreement on E-911 dispatch service and fire protection services. The joint meeting of the two boards was…

  NATCHEZ — This Monday, the Natchez Adams School District schools are the first in the Miss-Lou to start bringing new and returning students on campuses for the 2024-2025 school year. “This Back-to-School season is filled with anticipation and excitement,” NASD Superintendent Zandra McDonald stated in a letter. “As your superintendent, I am honored to…

  NATCHEZ — Adams County Sheriff’s Office on Friday morning arrested two men — one with a litany of previous charges — during a drug bust at Holiday Apartments. In the early hours of Friday morning, agents from the ACSO Special Operations Unit executed a search warrant at Holiday Apartments, 601 Old Washington Road, Apartment…

  NATCHEZ — Adams County Sheriff’s Office and Natchez Police Department are seeking the public’s help while investigating a potential arson case at the residence of Vidalia Police Department’s patrol Captain, Craig Godbold on late Friday or early Saturday morning. The house on Creek Bend Road went up in flames during the night around midnight…

NATCHEZ, Miss. — Ceairra Franklin, a 2024 graduate of Natchez High School, is the 2024 recipient of a $1,000 scholarship awarded by the Hugh Green Scholarship Foundation. The funding will go toward her education at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, where she is studying to become a licensed laboratory technician. “When I first heard…