News

Celebrating achievements and looking ahead to growth

Words cannot express my gratitude for the overwhelming show of support as I announced my candidacy for reelection ...

Opinion

It’s Labor Day: What does that mean for today’s workers?

As we sit on the cusp of the Labor Day holiday this year, most people’s thoughts will likely ...

Opinion

Lazarus let emotions get best of him

Mike Lazarus, who recently was defeated by Wes Middleton for a second time for the District 1 county ...

Opinion

Because of state’s health care issues, future does not look promising

To the editor: The editorial in The Natchez Democrat of Aug. 13 was a bold challenge to our elected ...

Opinion

Our opinion: It’s one thing to develop workforce, but another to keep workers in Mississippi

Gov. Tate Reeves delivered quite the speech at the Vicksburg Warren Chamber of Commerce luncheon recently. As with ...

Opinion

A time to celebrate: Thursday, Aug. 31

As your mayor, it is hard to believe that we are now one month into this last year ...

Opinion

Where everyone knows your name

Last Saturday night, I was at Andrew’s Tavern in the 300 block of Main Street. It was a ...

Opinion

People of Adams County lost election

The residents of Adams County lost an election. You lost out on having someone in office that looks ...

Opinion

Restoring Hope, indeed

Hats off to Laine and Kevin Berry and all involved in this weekend’s Restoring Hope event in Natchez. ...

Opinion

Natchez needs a port for smaller boats

Years ago Natchez had a port for small boats. It was a barge boat operated by Steve Stevens ...

Business

Mickey Howley’s Street Talk: Build smarter not farther

As of this writing, the forecast for the next week has high temps all over 100 degrees and ...

Opinion

Let’s stop the blame game over the jail

This has not been a banner couple of weeks at the sheriff’s office with jailbreaks, high-speed pursuits, flooding ...

Opinion

Pardon our progress: Street project set to begin soon

In a couple of weeks, we will break ground on an exciting and very much-needed street infrastructure project. ...

Opinion

Our candidate endorsements

The editorial board of The Natchez Democrat met with each candidate in contested races in the Aug. 8 ...

Opinion

Sheriff: Shutting down jail is not that simple

I am writing this article in reference to the photo floating around on social media to set the ...

Top of the Morning

Highlights from the mayor’s third State of the City address

Monday evening, it was my pleasure to present my third State of the City address as your mayor, ...

Opinion

Supervisors Gaines, Gray stand by garbage collection decision

To the editor:  This has been a challenging four years and we have all felt increase of costs ...

News

Time to vote for your Miss-Lou favorites

The time to vote is now. Not in the primary elections, mind you. Instead, it’s time to vote ...

Opinion

WILSON: I stand by my decision to vote no on garbage contract, and here’s why

I actually am surprised that Warren Gaines and Ricky Gray would bring the garbage contract back out in ...

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 ...

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