Dot Fortenberry of Columbia earned a bronze medal Saturday while competing in table tennis at the Mississippi State Games at Northeast Jones High School in Laurel.
The 82-year-old was in the women’s bracket — no age groups — where the next youngest competitor was half her age.
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Monday, May 27
Editor’s Note: The following people were booked into the Marion County Jail by local law enforcement agencies from May 27 to June 2. The Columbian-Progress will correct any errors. Call Editor Charlie Smith at (601) 736-2611 to request a correction.
The following land transactions were filed in Marion County Chancery Court during the weeks ending May 17 and May 24:
Monday, May 13
• Frank Magee and Carolyn Magee to Frank Magee and Carolyn Magee, as Trustees of Frank Magee and Carolyn Magee Revocable Trust
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There’s an easy way to get around the garden-gobbling size and leaf debris to better enjoy our official state tree: Up against a wall.
Editor’s Note: The following people were booked into the Marion County Jail by local law enforcement agencies from May 20 to May 26. The Columbian-Progress will correct any errors. Call Editor Charlie Smith at (601) 736-2611 to request a correction.
Columbia’s population dropped below 6,000 in 2018 for the first time since the 1930s, according to census estimates.
The city’s population was 5,941 in 2018 versus 6,582 at the 2010 census. That’s a loss of 641 people, or 9.7 percent.
Jorgejill S. Duyaguit, pastor and director at Faithway Baptist Institute in Calatrava, Negros Occidental, the Philippines, visited the state Capitol on Friday with his wife, Lyn, and son, Kneel. For the first time they met their longtime Facebook friend, State Sen. Angela Burks Hill, in the Senate chamber.
RAYMOND — Four Marion County residents were among the more than 1,200 graduates of Hinds Community College during its spring commencement ceremonies.
The local graduates included:
• Cory Livingston of Columbia;
• Quanterris Newby of Columbia;
• Lindsey Gibson of Foxworth; and
• Keirra Meadious of Foxworth.
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Monday, May 20
