A veteran newspaperman once shared some advice that has stuck with me: Remember that a newspaper belongs to its community, not to you.
Columbia officials are planning to begin using a pothole patching machine again that has been sitting idle in the city barn.
Alderman Jason Stringer said during Tuesday’s meeting that the machine is collecting cobwebs now and encouraged trying to see how it works.
A property owner in northeast Marion County reported she saw a relative coming out of a trailer on her property just before a blaze burned it down Tuesday morning.
Arson investigators were set to come to the scene at 137 Russell Lane Wednesday. It has a Sumrall address but is in the Christian Union community in Marion County.
The Mississippi Court of Appeals issued a ruling this week in an oilfield-related lawsuit from Marion County Circuit Court.
After 49 years in Columbia, Fred’s will be closing its doors by the end of May.
The Memphis-based company announced Thursday that it was shutting down 159 of its 557 stores, nearly 30 percent of its total.
Shoppers at the location on Mississippi 13 expressed surprise at the news.
Lawsuits filed by Columbia and Marion County against opioid drug companies will be heard in federal court in Ohio rather than Mississippi.
U.S. District Judge Dan Aaron Polster of Ohio currently has more than 1,317 similar cases before him.
The Columbia Board of Aldermen has appointed election commissioners to handle the upcoming referendum on a 3 percent hotel and restaurant sales tax.
The Marion County School District honored the volunteer contributions of the parents of the year from each school Monday.
Winners included:
• East Marion Elementary: Yolanda Bourne
• East Marion High: Tibby Johnson
• West Marion Primary: Kimmie Miller
• West Marion Elementary: Kayla Crawford
Work is set to begin Monday on a $5.4 million renovation at Walmart that will include adding the first online grocery pickup in Columbia.
This week I asked the Mississippi Department of Revenue for an estimate of how much Columbia’s proposed 3 percent tourism tax would generate as well as a breakdown of how much comes from hotels versus restaurants.
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