Opinion

Federal investments in local preservation projects is encouraging

Two recent national grants bring good news for Natchez and beyond. The National Trust for Historic Preservation awarded ...

Opinion

2024 state legislative session under way

2024 is off to a great start! It is encouraging to now see so many successes, including projects ...

Opinion

From the mayor’s desk: Honoring the Historic Natchez Foundation

Thursday evening, at the annual meeting of the Historic Natchez Foundation, it was my honor to present The ...

Opinion

Long time coming and one more step

Next Monday is the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday. At two that afternoon in the Zion Chapel A.M.E. ...

Opinion

Congratulations, Historic Natchez Foundation, and thank you

This year is the 50th anniversary of the Historic Natchez Foundation. It is frightening to imagine what Natchez ...

Opinion

‘Catching the rabbit:’ U.S. Grant and the Vicksburg campaign

With Gettysburg and Antietam, U.S. Grant’s Vicksburg campaign of 1863 is considered by historians as one of the ...

Opinion

A New Year wish list

A new year is upon us and we are filled with optimism about all we can collectively accomplish ...

Opinion

Historic Natchez Foundation to host annual meeting

The Historic Natchez Foundation invites the Natchez community to attend its annual meeting on Thursday, January 11th, from ...

Opinion

Celebrating Dr. King’s birthday: A time to “Lift Every Voice”

We are so blessed to live in this time, where divisions of the past are being overcome and ...

Opinion

A great year behind us, an even greater year ahead

We are coming to the end of 2023, and what a year it has been! This is the ...

Editorials

Judge Hudson portrait long overdue

The Adams County legal community gave well-deserved and overdue honors to former Adams County and Youth Court Judge ...

Business

More of us staying put these days

I’ve always up for good origin story. This time of year, the holiday season, there’s a lot of ...

Opinion

Renovating the golf clubhouse: We need YOU!

Since we began the Natchez Renewal together almost four years ago, one of our main priorities has been ...

Business

Truth Lounge, if catering to a younger, rowdy crowd, should locate elsewhere

It’s good news that neighbors have had few if any problems to complain about recently at the Truth ...

News

The Democrat endorses Patten, Cotton, Givens

Adams Countians are fortunate. When voters go to the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 7, they have good people ...

Opinion

The Golden Rule – Time for a return to 11 simple words

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” These 11 words of Jesus are words ...

Opinion

Constituents deserve better than useless bickering

At the end of the Titan Tire public hearing on Tuesday night, a Natchez resident stood up and ...

Opinion

Truth Lounge owners and city want safe streets, business

I am writing this Top of the Morning to elaborate more on the decision to pull deputies from ...

Opinion

Natchez shines during electric weekend

“The atmosphere in Natchez is just electric.” That’s how one Natchez native described the community early Friday morning, ...

Opinion

Solving the mysteries of John James Audubon’s Landscape Painting of Natchez

The most famous artist to work in Natchez was naturalist John James Audubon (1785-1851), who first appeared in ...

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