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5 days ago | 
vicksburgpost.com | Ben Martin
Published 3:36 pm Sunday, June 1, 2025 Michelle McKenzie is the owner of McKenzie’s Beauty Supply at 5 Pemberton Place and McKenzie’s Hair Store at 1514 Washington Street. The family-owned business has been a staple of beauty supply needs in Vicksburg for decades. “(My favorite part is) making people happy or making them feel better,” she said.
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1 week ago | 
vicksburgpost.com | Ben Martin
Published 9:52 am Saturday, May 31, 2025 The Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation is currently operating its Southern Exposure Summer Camp. The day camp, for children ages four to eleven, is going on all summer long. Karen Biedenharn is a teacher at the summer camp.
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1 week ago | 
vicksburgpost.com | Ben Martin
Published 2:00 pm Friday, May 30, 2025 Jeff Burnett is the owner of a venue soon to open that will host a variety of food trucks on Highway 61 South. It will be called The Gathering. He said one reason he wanted to open the location was because of the lack of businesses in the area. “It’s no secret to anybody in our town that my feeling of 61 South is that we have been, I hate to use the word depressed, but it has been a less than active area in the last 20 years,” he said.
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1 week ago | 
vicksburgpost.com | Ben Martin
Published 7:43 am Wednesday, May 28, 2025 St. Aloysius High School recently graduated its class of 2025. Caleb Stewart is the valedictorian and Samantha Edwards is the salutatorian. Stewart made remarks at the graduation ceremony. “The main point of my speech was that time doesn’t stop and it is important to make every moment count,” he said. Stewart said he is optimistic about the potential of the graduating class.
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2 weeks ago | 
vicksburgpost.com | Ben Martin
Published 11:03 am Thursday, May 22, 2025 The Vicksburg-Warren Partnership celebrated the graduation of 20 participants in this year’s Vicksburg Leadership program during the Vicksburg-Warren Chamber of Commerce’s monthly luncheon Wednesday at the Vicksburg Convention Center. The program, which the chamber operates, is a nine-month course in which professionals in the community learn leadership skills. During the course of the program, the 20 students were split into four groups.
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3 weeks ago | 
vicksburgpost.com | Ben Martin
Published 11:56 am Friday, May 16, 2025 Candidates in the upcoming municipal election gathered on Thursday evening for a Meet the Candidates event at the Warren County Courthouse. The event was an opportunity for candidates to speak about their platforms and respond to questions from the public. Candidates in attendance were Vicksburg Mayor George Flaggs Jr.; mayoral candidates Willis Thompson and Kasman Massey; Ward 2 Alderman Alex Monsour; and Ward 2 challenger Vickie Bailey.
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3 weeks ago | 
vicksburgpost.com | Ben Martin
Published 5:33 pm Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Layne Logue is the owner of Quapaw Canoe Company in Vicksburg. The company operates paddle trips for customers along the lower Mississippi River. Logue grew up in Vicksburg. He said his company is essentially a franchise of the Quapaw Canoe Company based in Clarksdale, Mississippi and run by river paddling expert John Ruskey. “John Ruskey started this back in ’98 and he was the first one to do it.
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3 weeks ago | 
vicksburgpost.com | Ben Martin
Published 8:12 am Wednesday, May 14, 2025 Construction of the new Warren County Jail is well underway. Lance Zaerr Jr. is the vice president of Integrated Project Solutions, the company responsible for managing the construction project on behalf of Warren County.
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4 weeks ago | 
vicksburgpost.com | Ben Martin
Published 3:51 pm Thursday, May 8, 2025 A celebration was held in honor of River Ridge Behavioral Health center’s 50th anniversary serving Warren County on Thursday. Don Brown is the deputy executive director of the nonprofit organization. He spoke at the event. “I always want people to know that mental health and mental illness, especially from a community standpoint, is not like it was in the 60s and the 70s and the 80s,” he said.
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4 weeks ago | 
vicksburgpost.com | Ben Martin
Published 2:13 pm Thursday, May 8, 2025 This week, the Vicksburg-Tallulah Regional Airport is hosting U.S. Army troops from the 101st Airborne Division out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Travis McIntosh is the deputy commanding general for support for the division. “We are deploying a mobile brigade combat team out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, to Fort Johnson, Louisiana, and we’re deploying them by means of helicopter to get down to their training event,” McIntosh said.
