Ann Stapleton Austin
83, of Petal
Ann Stapleton Austin died May 19, 2019, at her home. Services were May 25.
Plans are underway for a new hotel in midtown Hattiesburg, with Hattiesburg City Council members voting 5-0 Tuesday to allow a variance for four stories – rather than the current zoning that allows three stories – for a proposed Comfort Inn and Suites at the southwest corner of North 39th Avenue and Montague Boulevard.
Herbert Ray Nobles, a longtime member of Pearl River Community College Board of Trustees, grew up as a “poor county boy.” He started football his senior year of high school, which propelled him into a 27-year career with the Petal School District and 25 years at PRCC.
The 1,900 people registered to vote at the Kamper Park voting precinct will more than likely be getting a new voting place for the 2020 elections.
The BP Settlement Bill – formally known as Senate Bill 2002 – has been a huge asset to Mississippi counties and cities affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, with more than $750 million distributed statewide for repairs, improvement and infrastructure.
Sumrall’s much-anticipated water line improvement project along Mississippi 589, which is about two years in the making, will not only transpire as planned – it’ll happen much cheaper than officials were expecting.
It’s doubtful New York City is taking its cues from a community the size of Hattiesburg, but if it were the case, officials in America’s largest city could have saved a few million bucks in the process.
The 2020 campaign for president is getting started and a record number of candidates have qualified, but predictability none are from Mississippi.
Forty years ago the presidential election had something remarkable and yet forgettable – a presidential candidate from Mississippi.
Maybe I have an Etsy page. Maybe I don't. That's between me, Arthur if he exists, and my two followers whose names are Jansy Whipsicle and Pork Bulgogi Martinez.
Etsy is a website (and accompanying app) that has created a name for itself as “the place to go” for out of the way sorts of gifts.
There are very few TV shows I watch faithfully. (And yes, that includes HBO's Game of Thrones.)
Mostly, I'm a channel-surfer. When I come across a program that interests me, I'll stop surfing, put down the remote, and watch. One program that always grabs my attention is TLC's My Six-Hundred Pound Life.
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