Hinds County News

06/12/2024

Looking for a Lawn Man. Please give Bill McKay a call. The BEST!

04/24/2024

Attention: From Raymond Police Department
There is an armed black male, wearing black pants, white shirt, and may or may not have a black backpack at large in Raymond. He is armed and dangerous. He was last seen headed East into the woods off Dry Grove Rd. by the City Cemetery. Please take precautions. If you see this person call 911 immediately. This is all the information we have at the moment but will continue to update as soon as information is made available to us. Also, please let your friends and family know that are in the area.

04/24/2024

06/15/2023

06/04/2023

Sipp Culture Community Farm will kick off our market season on Thursday, June 8th from 5 pm - 7 pm with the Main Street Farmer's Market on the corner of Main Street and White Oak Street in downtown Utica. Come on by and get the freshest, most beautiful, nutritionally-dense, sustainably grown, vegetables this side of the Mississippi.

We have squash, onions, kale, cabbage, beets, zucchini, swiss chard, potatoes, and so much more this summer. Come get you some.

05/19/2023

NOW is the time to get your ad in for the JUNE issue. MONDAY May 22nd is the deadline.

05/06/2023

Mother’s Day is right around the corner! Here are a few gift ideas! Hope to see you soon! 🥰🥰🥰

05/03/2023

This is the new Mississippi license plate. What do you think? What was your favorite license plate design of the past?

According to officials, the new license plates will begin being issued starting with January 2024 renewals.

04/21/2023

We have Florida grown watermelons back in stock! 🍉🍉🍉

04/13/2023

Eudora Welty was born on April 13, 1909 in Jackson. She was a short story writer and novelist who wrote about the American South.

She attended Central High School in Jackson. Near the time of her high school graduation, Welty moved with her family to a house built for them at 1119 Pinehurst Street, which remained her permanent address until her death. Wyatt C. Hedrick designed the Weltys' Tudor Revival-style home, which is now known as the Eudora Welty House and Garden.

Welty studied at the Mississippi State College for Women from 1925 to 1927, then transferred to the University of Wisconsin to complete her studies in English literature. She also studied advertising at Columbia University.

Soon after Welty returned to Jackson in 1931, she took a job at a local radio station and wrote about Jackson society for the Memphis newspaper Commercial Appeal. In 1933, she began work for the Works Progress Administration. As a publicity agent, she collected stories, conducted interviews, and took photographs of daily life in Mississippi. She gained a wider view of Southern life and the human relationships that she drew from for her short stories. During this time she also held meetings in her house with fellow writers and friends, a group she called the Night-Blooming Cereus Club. Three years later, she left her job to become a full-time writer.

In 1936, she published "The Death of a Traveling Salesman" in the literary magazine Manuscript, and soon published stories in several other notable publications including The Sewanee Review and The New Yorker. She strengthened her place as an influential Southern writer when she published her first book of short stories, A Curtain of Green. Her new-found success won her a seat on the staff of The New York Times Book Review, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship which enabled her to travel to France, England, Ireland, and Germany. While abroad, she spent some time as a resident lecturer at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, becoming the first woman to be permitted into the hall of Peterhouse College. In 1960, she returned home to Jackson to care for her elderly mother and two brothers.

In 1971, she published a collection of her photographs depicting the Great Depression, titled One Time, One Place. Two years later, she received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel The Optimist's Daughter. She lectured at Harvard University, and eventually adapted her talks as a three-part memoir titled One Writer's Beginnings. She continued to live in her family house in Jackson until her death from natural causes on July 23, 2001.

She is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Jackson. Her headstone has a quote from The Optimist's Daughter: "For her life, any life, she had to believe, was nothing but the continuity of its love."

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04/12/2023

We have MILK! Fresh, LOCAL Beason Family Farm’s milk can be found here in Byram! 🎉🥛🐄
📍 20 Willow Creek Ln Byram, MS 39272
☎️ 601-373-4545

04/06/2023

WICKEDSTANGS will have its 2nd Annual Cruise-In hosted by Audio Solutions of Florence, MS on May 6th at 6pm. This is a free cruise-in and all cars, trucks and bikes are welcome! Various food vendors will also be on site. Come out and enjoy this fun, family event!

03/22/2023

****4/14/2023 It’s not to late to be apart of Market & Music on the Square. We still have a few vendor spots open. You don’t want to miss this.
Contact Barbara at 601-420-3402 for more information
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Market & Music on the Square
Saturday, April 29th
Free Event
Market 10 am - 3 pm
Music 5:30 pm - 9 pm
Richland Town Square