RIDGELAND — Sunnybrook Children’s Home celebrated the groundbreaking Tuesday of Renasant Bank Cottage, the sixth residential campus property serving adolescent youth ages 14 to 21 on their 32-acre campus just off of Sunnybrook Road here.

Wallace Nicols of Madison recently joined students from across the nation to take part in  the National Youth Leadership Forum: Pathways to STEM, which took place in July at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in downtown Houston. 

RIDGELAND — Northpark is recently announced the national retailer Charlotte Russe as the newest addition to the shopping center. 

A victim had to be extricated from a rollover accident on Bozeman Road Wednesday morning near Madison Heights Church.

RIDGELAND — Liquor stores cannot be built within 2,000 feet of each other per an ordinance passed by city officials last week in an attempt to control the density of liquor stores in the city.

MADISON — The Jackson man accused of shooting into an occupied dwelling in Northbay remains in custody on a $1 million bond.

Attorneys for embattled former Madison County Engineer Rudy Warnock and former Canton Municipal Utilities Chairman Cleveland Anderson filed separate motions last week to request another continuance in their ongoing federal bribery cases. 

CANTON — A new 400,000-square-foot warehouse for Mississippi’s liquor distribution operations is coming here, officials announced this week. 

“I feel like Job from the Bible,” Brandee Quayle said Wednesday morning following a fire that destroyed her home in the Shocco community east of Canton.

The Holmes Community College Ridgeland Campus held a Pinning Ceremony for the Practical Nursing Class of 2024 on June 27 at Broadmoor Baptist Church in Madison.

The Nissan Foundation has named the Two Mississippi Museums—the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and Museum of Mississippi History—as a 2024 grant recipient.

On Saturday, July 13, Grace Ann Courtney of Wiggins, was named the Distinguished Young Woman of MS for 2025 and was presented with a cash scholarship of $10,000 at the conclusion of the 68th Distinguished Young Women of MS State Finals. 

The brand new $8 million Gluckstadt Police Station and Municipal Court building will be delayed by about a month.

An alderman who wanted to remove the distance requirement for convenience stores and liquor stores to increase competition was immediately met with opposition during the July 9 board meeting. 

According to preliminary designs presented to city officials earlier this month, a proposed Gluckstadt Park could feature walking trails, a playground, a pavilion, a stage, a splash pad, and more.

The Madison Summer Arts Camp was held last week

A metro-area trio was selected in the early rounds of this week’s MLB Draft, headlined by Jackson Prep star Konnor Griffin, who was selected with the ninth overall pick by the Pittsburgh Pirates.

The Holmes Community College Ridgeland Campus held a pinning ceremony for the Surgical Technology Class of 2024 on June 26 in the McGowan Workforce Training Center.

Magnolia Dermatology & Aesthetics, Mississippi’s premier dermatology and aesthetics group, is excited to welcome Colleen Powers, M.D. to their Jackson clinic. 

The University of Mississippi Medical Center is leasing brand-new medical office space directly across from the future ambulatory surgical center on Colony Park Boulevard in Ridgeland.