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City-wide Precautionary Boil Water Notice in Effect
The Jackson Free Press received this notice from the city this morning: Due to the recent loss in water pressure, the City of Jackson Water/Sewer Utilities Division has issued a precautionary boil water advisory until further notice for all customers on the City of Jackson Surface Water System. This notice …
Town Hall on Sales Tax Set for Sunday
With less than two months left before Jacksonians head to the polls to decide the fate of a proposed 1-percent sales tax increase, Mayor Chokwe Lumumba is taking his message to the people. Lumumba will host a town hall-style meeting at 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 1 at Pearl St. African …
Northwest Rankin Loses in Court
Some will remember the story the JFP broke back in May about a lawsuit a student brought against Northwest Rankin High School after she was forced to attend a religious event at the school. Well, the student won in federal court, and Northwest Rankin has a brand new policy on …
Gabe Jackson Wins Inaugural Hull Trophy
Mississippi State’s Gabe Jackson, an All American guard rated at the top of his position by NFL draft experts, has been selected the first winner of the Kent Hull Trophy as Mississippi’s most outstanding collegiate offensive lineman. Jackson will receive the Kent Hull Trophy at the C Spire Conerly Trophy …
Lumumba Announces Two More Town Halls
Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba has announced two more town hall meetings to discuss the need for the city to pass a 1-percent sales tax hike. The first is set for 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 10, at the E-Center on the campus of Jackson State University at 1230 Raymond Road. …
Cochran Running: What They Are Saying
With the announcement that he will seek a seventh term representing Mississippi in the U.S. Senate, Thad Cochran set off an flurry of statements from state and national figures, alike. Here are a few, including one of his opponents. Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, in an official release: “Deborah and I …
Neighborhood Organization Set To Feed Cops
Civic group OurFondren plans to feed the officers of Jackson Police Precinct 4 this Thursday at 1 p.m. to show their appreciation. The group is in its second year sponsoring the program, but it needs help. According to a Tuesday press release, McDade's Grovery, Fondren Renaissance and the Fondren Association …
City To Host Three More Town Hall Meetings
Mayor Chokwe Lumumba and the City of Jackson will host three additional town hall meetings to discuss the merits of the proposed 1-percent sales tax option currently before Jackson voters, the city announced Monday morning. Wards 1 and 2 will meet at 6 p.m. on Dec. 19 at Word and …
Comegy Fired As JSU Football Coach
Jackson State University will replace head football Coach Rick Comegy, the university announced today. A search for Comegy’s successor will begin immediately, JSU Director of Athletics Vivian L. Fuller said. “We are grateful to Coach Comegy and his staff for their service to Jackson State,” Fuller said. “We appreciate the …
One Church: An Oasis of Religious Diversity
While working on a story on Tony Yarber's Jackson Crime Alignment, I got the pleasure of speaking with pastor Matt McGue of one of Jackson's newest churches, One Church. I am admittedly not very religious, but there's something about McGue's message of inclusion that struck me as incredibly genuine. There …
CROSSHATCH Fundraiser Set For Jan. 10
Brent's Drugs in Fondren is set to host CROSSHATCH, a fundraiser for Fund the Hatch, a mixed-use creative business incubator the old warehouse building at 143 Keener Ave. in Midtown. The JFP first wrote about the incubator on April 3, 2013, and project's lead promoter/developer/fund-raiser Whitney Grant of Midtown Partners …
Road Closure: Medgar Evers Blvd. Edition
The city of Jackson has announced that a portion of South Medgar Evers Boulevard will be closed for the next three days. The closure starts at the intersection known as Freedom Corner, at Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, and continues south to Pocahontas Street at Society Ridge …
Town Hall In Ward 1 Set For Tonight
Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba and the City of Jackson is hosting another Town Hall meeting tonight to discuss the 1-percent local sales tax option. The meeting is set for 6 p.m. at Christ United Methodist Church at 6000 Old Canton Road in Ward 1. City leaders are putting the option …
For Sale: 142,000-square-foot Church, Used
A recent listing on online classified ads web page Craigslist shows that the old Broadmoor Baptist Church on East Northside Drive is for sale for $2.8 million. The building most recently went under the title of Wesley Biblical Seminary. I'm not sure who is looking to buy a church and …
Breaking Down the Referendum Vote
The numbers are in, and it looks like the soon-to-be-law, one-percent local option sales tax won in every precinct last Tuesday. The results, which you can view here, show that the vote received the highest support in north Jackson, but enjoyed widespread support throughout the city's seven wards. The four …
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