Opinion

Kindness starts with you: Pass it on

Years ago, when I was very involved in music ministry, including outreach programs, prison ministry, and weekend retreats such ...

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Natchez Historical Society: Meeting topic Natchez Diplomacy 1540-1730

It’s a natural tendency for us to think of our own times and the times proximately preceding them ...

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It’s Spring – and time to play ball

A dear friend of mine, Downtown Karla Brown, has a saying “Nothing Matches Natchez.” This time of year, ...

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Destination downtown: Traffic flow, why one-way or the other when you can have both?

When it comes to traffic flow in Downtown Natchez, why have it one-way or the other when you ...

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On St. Patrick’s Day, everyone is Irish

Have you ever wanted to be “Irish” for a day, or are you just looking for a way ...

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Spring Pilgrimage is blooming!

Spring is in the air – and with it anticipation! We are only one week from the opening ...

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Natchez Festival of Music offering music, humor and fun

“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” So says Victor Borge, one of my favorites among pianists ...

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Thank you for four more years!

t was just after 5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 2, and I was enjoying a normal Friday afternoon ...

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Congressman Bennie Thompson is complicit

Long before Congressman Bennie Thompson became a US Congressman, he was a human rights activist and a member ...

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2024 state legislative session under way

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

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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. ...

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‘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 ...

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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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Opinion

One Natchez: My motto going forward

“The bitterness and hate created by the late civil strife has, in my opinion, been obliterated in this ...

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Visit Natchez impresses at 2023 Tourism Summit

Thursday, it was my pleasure to attend the 2023 Visit Natchez Annual Tourism Summit. Visit Natchez, under the ...

Opinion

A letter to our very special Watson Calhoun

It has been hard to find the words — words to describe our sorrow over the passing of ...

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