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A Night (And a Day) of Music: Flowood Flea Market Hosts ‘Singing for the Kids’

A self-proclaimed "nickel-and-dime musician," Robert Ferren joins forces with Phillip Till to host a round-the-clock music show beginning at 9 a.m. on Saturday, March 20, at the Flowood Flea Market …

Donate A Dish gifts should be made to serve roughly 35 portions. Photo courtesy Wright's …

Volunteers may prepare and donate pre-cooked dishes that organizers will either distribute or deliver. Photo …

Wright’s Foundation for Better Communities and Stewpot Community Services’ Opportunity Center collaborate to feed the …

Food

‘Donate A Dish’ Program Feeds Homeless Jacksonians for Easter

Wright's Foundation for Better Communities is gearing up for its third-annual Donate A Dish event to serve home-cooked meals to homeless individuals at Stewpot Community Services' Opportunity Center from March …

City & County

Seeking Solutions to Illegal Dumping: Education, Citation, Action

"(Illegal dumping) poses a big problem in the city of Jackson," Ward 6 Councilman Aaron Banks acknowledged at the Feb. 2 council meeting. "As soon as we organize cleanups to …

Roland Powell joined the Ward 2 cleanup exercise on Feb. 6 on Presto Lane in …

Volunteers help clean up along West Highland Drive. The question is how to stop the …

Ward 2 Councilwoman Angelique Lee picks up trash along Presto Lane in Jackson as part …

Jackson-based DJ Finesse (Chris Carr) went on Facebook on Feb. 8 to complain of trash …

The City of Jackson put a sign on West Highland Drive saying those who throw …

Richard Conville suggests a way to get past the “hard-packed soil” of division. Photo by …

OPINION: Like Hard-Packed Soil, The Danger of Being Right

"Hard-packed soil does not grow flowers in the spring, nor any other kind of plant in any other season. If I am convinced that I am Right (with a capital …