Natchez News

The three companies holding their breath - perhaps against the smell - to find out if they would be awarded Adams County's waste disposal contract will have to wait 30 days more.

The world outside the boundaries of Adams County and Concordia Parish made more than $42,000 off the Natchez municipal elections.

Despite being Trinity Episcopal Day School's valedictorian, 18-year-old Madeline Iles said she was full of humility while working on her graduation speech.

Two mayoral candidates still in the race for City Hall have raised a combined $133,528.48, but the political fundraising scales are certainly leaning one way.

Jerry Moore got involved with the Natchez-Adams County Chamber of Commerce when he first moved into the area in the mid-1980s, and he didn't see why he should stop when he retired.

And when Theron, 1, and Tristan, 3, take a trip to Frazier Primary School, they are some of the campus' favorite visitors.

Once the upcoming city election cycle is over, the Natchez-Adams County Recreation Commission would like to approach the aldermen and discuss a step toward a unified recreation program that doesn't need any new funding, Commission Chairman Tate Hobdy said.

When The Dart landed on College Street, it found 2-year-old Gabbie Brooks playing in her yard with her grandfather, Ronnie Brooks Sr.

Eric teaches fourth grade at McLaurin Elementary School, and Tracy is employed by Open Air MRI.

Republican candidate Bob Buie bowed out of the Natchez mayoral race Friday, further narrowing the pool of mayoral candidates to just two.

"I feel like just yesterday I was riding my Barbie Jeep," Knight said. "I'm sad that we're graduating, but I'm excited to go out and explore the world." "I have a lot of family in the Navy," Renfrow said.

Buie said he is dropping out of the race for many reasons, namely illness in his family and an overall "disenchantment" with Natchez and the city officials who run it.

Smoke rises above the Adams County Correctional Center in Natchez, Miss., Sunday, May 20, 2012, during an inmate disturbance at the prison.

Monthly sales tax collections for the City of Natchez are up for the eighth month in a row this fiscal year.

I nearly made road kill out of a tourist standing in the middle of the road last week.

Tupelo Assistant Superintendent Fred Hill was named superintendent of the Natchez-Adams School District on Thursday, the Natchez Democrat newspaper reports.

Frederick Hill, most recently the assistant superintendent of the Tupelo Public School District, was named the new superintendent of the Natchez-Adams School District today at the school board's specially called board meeting.

Natchez alderwoman Joyce Arceneaux-Mathis told the public on Tuesday night that she's ashamed of the Board of Aldermen on which she sits.

After hearing pleas from residents and voicing concerns of its own, The Natchez Preservation Commission unanimously denied Wednesday a proposed oil operation on historic Arlington property.

Smith's parents, Stephanie and Joseph, played the game, and Rashaad said he learned how to play by watching them.