NATCHEZ &045; Homemakers who’ve met in the same room for 50 years had their final meeting in the Extension Service’s Liberty Road building Wednesday morning.

&uot;It’s kind of sad after all these years,&uot; homemaker Gracie Blanton said.

The homemakers organization is just one of the groups that works out of the Mississippi State University Extension Service now being moved to a county-owned pine tech building formerly occupied by International Paper.

The Extension Service’s current building will be torn down to make way for the Natchez Trace extension.

The new office will be at 75 Carthage Point Road.

&uot;It’s going to be an adjustment,&uot; 4-H Program Assistant Geraldine Geyen said. &uot;It’s a little further away, and it’s not exactly the same, but we’ll make the best.&uot;

The 4-H offices and a nutrition associate are based in the extension building.

Secretary Penny Rachel has worked in the office for more than five years, but said she saw new possibilities in the new office.

&uot;It will give us an opportunity to reach the other side of town,&uot; Rachel said. &uot;It’s a different set of clientele. And the ones who really love us will follow us.&uot;

Rachel and Blanton have been preparing for the move for over a year when they were first told of the roadwork. They weren’t sure until recently, though, when they would actually move.

The moving company was removing the last of the items Wednesday. The Carthage Point Road offices will officially open on Feb. 1.

Homemaker Margaret Lynch said she remembers when the club met on Oak Street before moving into the current building.