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Wesson · WessonBy guest columnist Dr. Stephanie Duguid As part of the Mississippi Health Ambassador Initiative, Brooke Edwards, DCNP at Brookhaven Skin and Med Spa, has shed light on the critical importance of skin health. Skin cancer remains a significant health concern affecting millions of Americans. Understanding its prevalence, types, risk factors, and preventive measures are keys to skin health and reducing its impact. Prevalence and impact. Skin …See the Story
Tactics in battling skin cancer
Crystal Springs · Crystal SpringsThe fifth annual Taste of the Blues festival will be held Saturday in downtown Crystal Springs. It will be a day of great music along with more than three dozen food and craft vendors. The fun will go well into the evening with dancing in the streets until 10 p.m. The event, sponsored by Main Street Crystal Springs, will be in Railroad Park. So organizers can set up for the festival, the city is closing Front Street at 6 p.m., Friday, from East …See the Story
Crystal Springs offers ‘Taste of the Blues’ April 27
Wesson · WessonOrders are now being prebooked for The History of Little Bahala 1816-1950 covering the area’s native families, important landmarks and locations. and available for $30. The 70-page book with a three-page fold out map, with more than 120 pictures, five maps and 20 newspaper clippings from as early as 1876 is available for $30. Churches, schools, cemeteries, stores, grist mills, saw mills, RR lines, swimming holes, family homes and more are sp…See the Story
Book compiles Little Bahala history
Crystal Springs · Crystal SpringsBrookhaven native Bill Perkins has been snapping photos since about the age of 10. He has never stopped and has no plans to ever abandon this pastime. Some early memories captured with his camera are from visiting the Grand Canyon and other national parks during the summer of 1964 – amazing subjects, especially for someone so young. Those would have been black and white photos taken with a Kodak Brownie, about the most basic camera ever made. Hi…See the Story
Reception for photography exhibit to be held April 25 at Hazlehurst library
Wesson · WessonBefore Highway 84 in the 1800s, St. Stephens Road connected then-Mississippi capital Natchez to Fort St. Stephens in Alabama as the main wagon and trade route that settled Mississippi. At the March Institute for Learning in Retirement luncheon, David Higgs, former Co-Lin humanities division chair, discussed the history and culture marks left on the road that brought the Scots-Irish peoples who populated to the Mississippi territory then mostly…See the Story
A road that settled Mississippi
Wesson · WessonMadison and Rankin Counties’ District Attorney Bubba Bramlett announced today that Willard Geven Knight, 33, was sentenced to serve a total of 50 years for multiple counts of child exploitation, which must be served without the possibility of parole. In January 2023, deputies from the Rankin County Sheriff’s Department began working an undercover operation to identify an individual using social networks to receive, traffic, share, and distribu…See the Story
Repeat Offender Pleads Guilty to Child Exploitation: Will Serve Fifty Years in MDOC
Wesson · WessonBy Bob Arnold If you recently noticed folk around town with cameras carefully sizing up photo opportunities and snapping pictures, they just might have been helping out Wesson Friends of the Library (FOL) as participants in a contest generating picture stories to promote the local public library during the National Library Week celebration it is orchestrating. Over the past couple of weeks, FOL, the local support group for Wesson Public Libr…See the Story
Photos telling library story
Crystal Springs · Crystal SpringsEmbark on a magical journey as the Mississippi Children’s Museum in Jackson unveils the Gertrude C. Ford’s “The Enchanted Land of Story.” This captivating garden experience invites guests to imagine, explore, and discover a realm where stories come to life. The Gertrude C. Ford Literacy Garden initially opened its doors in 2014 and has warmly received over a million visitors in the last decade, prompting significant renovations and exciting upda…See the Story
