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Opinion

Lessons learned from the Greatest Generation and all our veterans

George Grantland Jr. was born on the tail end of the Greatest Generation. A self-professed street-wise and wary ...

News

A tribute to those who shared their zest for life

For readers of a certain age – especially those who enjoyed nights on the town in Natchez in ...

News

Here’s to your community newspaper, in all its forms

You might not have noticed – because we aren’t the best at tooting our own horns – but ...

News

Notes and musings from the reporter’s notebook

Just a few weeks back in Natchez and the trusty reporter’s notebook is filling up with scribbles and ...

Opinion

It’s time to shine the light on our volunteers

By now you’ve likely read Sabrina Robertson’s story about the vital work AmeriCorps volunteers are doing in Ferriday, ...

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Estes’ legacy a fitting one for Natchez City Cemetery

When people are lucky, their passions can lead to a legacy. That’s just what happened with Don Estes, ...

News

Embracing a new role in a familiar place

More than a few years ago, a wide-eyed soon-to-be college graduate walked into Joan Gandy’s office at The ...

Opinion

Springing forward is simply insanity

Warning: Unpopular opinion ahead. This weekend, as we do every second weekend in March, we’ll be “springing forward” ...

Opinion

Pondering a surprisingly weighty topic

When it comes to the plethora of “days” to commemorate on social media, I always seem to be ...

News

How many books did you read in 2023?

A couple of years ago, a co-worker asked if I had any books I wanted to discard. It ...

Opinion

Natchez roots nurture celebrated artist’s gift

“Heather Christian is redefining the musical.” The headline popped up as I was working through dozens of emails, ...

Opinion

Natchez still nourishes the ‘foodie’ in us all

Family lore says that I was a picky eater as a child. Spaghetti and meatballs, hot dogs, roast ...

Opinion

Cleaning out the notebook: From baseball to health care

From deep sea tragedies to nail-biting baseball games, it’s been a doozy of a week. And with summer ...

Business

It’s time to play favorites in the Miss-Lou

Admit it: You play favorites. We all do. Whether it’s that favorite old t-shirt that you just can’t ...

Opinion

A new book brings a lesson on six degrees of separation

We have a running joke in our family that we like to call “six degrees of Natchez.” It ...

Opinion

Time to empty the reporter’s notebook again

Somehow April has passed and May is upon us … is anyone else out there suffering 2023 whiplash? ...

Opinion

Society faces a problem ‘far beyond’ anything we can fix alone

“It’s a culture that’s quick to take offense and ready to resort to violence at the drop of ...

News

Emptying out the reporter’s notebook

Boxes of notebooks are an occupational hazard for a journalist. Moving back to Mississippi from Alabama, I discovered ...

Opinion

They are all good dogs

We had to say goodbye to a beloved family member recently. Sport, the ever-happy Springer Spaniel we’d loved ...

Opinion

Seeing the face of God among us

The questions never came with a warning. When my children were little, the questions came, most often, at ...

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