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4 days ago | 
natchezdemocrat.com | Jan Griffey
Published 11:59 pm Saturday, April 19, 2025 “Why do you seek the living among the dead? He is not here, but he has risen.” Luke 24:5 As dawn breaks on Easter morning, Christians will give pause and thanks for the light. For the light brings not just the new day, but the reminder of the hope and belief that provides the foundation for our faith. Easter, in the Christian church, is the holiest day – and season – the year.
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4 days ago | 
natchezdemocrat.com | Jan Griffey
Published 11:52 pm Saturday, April 19, 2025 Easter has always been a highlight of the year for me. Set in Spring, it is indeed a time of renewal, a time of new birth and new life, and a time to celebrate the wondrous love of God. He gave His only son so that we all might live. Truly, we are blessed to have a Savior. His name is Jesus. He was tortured, crucified, and placed in a borrowed tomb. Those who killed Him thought that was the end of Him.
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4 days ago | 
natchezdemocrat.com | Jan Griffey
Published 11:50 pm Saturday, April 19, 2025 As European settlers began to explore the lower Mississippi Valley and displace Native American people to build settlements, the Europeans knew they needed to generate profits to make it a worthwhile endeavor. Most believed that the key to success was rooted in the ability of settlers to purchase enslaved Africans and utilize their forced labor in their own desire to build wealth.
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4 days ago | 
natchezdemocrat.com | Jan Griffey
Members of the Mayor's Youth Council scatter 8,000 eggs, donated by UMB, for the city's Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday on the Bluff. Members of the Mayor's Youth Council scatter 8,000 eggs, donated by UMB, for the city's Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday on the Bluff. Area children line up before Saturday's Easter Egg Hunt.
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6 days ago | 
natchezdemocrat.com | Jan Griffey
Published 4:19 pm Friday, April 18, 2025 NATCHEZ — While housing sales during the winter were slow, business has picked up, said two Natchez veteran Realtors. Sue Stedman, Realtor and broker at Crye-Leike Stedman Ulmer Realtors in Natchez, said the market “seems to be firing back up. Activity has picked up in the last couple of months.”Realtor.com reports 486 homes are for sale in Adams County, ranging in price from $7,000 to $3.9 million.
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6 days ago | 
natchezdemocrat.com | Jan Griffey
Published 4:11 pm Friday, April 18, 2025 NATCHEZ — The Mississippi River is on track to crest on April 24 at 1 a.m. at a stage of 54.5 feet, which is 6.5 feet above the 48-foot flood stage in Natchez, according to the National Water Prediction Service, which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. However, that crest date and stage could change depending on additional snowmelt and rainfall in the Ohio River Valley.
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6 days ago | 
natchezdemocrat.com | Jan Griffey
Published 3:53 pm Friday, April 18, 2025 Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of stories exploring the success and impact of the pilgrimage season in Natchez. NATCHEZ — Year one of the Pilgrimage Garden Club’s condensed version of Spring Pilgrimage is in the book. Laine and Kevin Berry, who authored the changes, have collected data that they say points to the format’s success.
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6 days ago | 
natchezdemocrat.com | Jan Griffey
Published 3:40 pm Friday, April 18, 2025 NATCHEZ — The Adams County Board of Supervisors is expected to make its next move on Monday toward terminating its garbage collection contract with United Infrastructure Services of Louisiana LLC. The county served the company with a notice of termination in March through the Mississippi Secretary of State and the Mississippi Attorney General.
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1 week ago | 
natchezdemocrat.com | Jan Griffey
Published 3:40 pm Wednesday, April 16, 2025 NATCHEZ—A gas leak on Morgantown Road near Gamberi’s is closing the road near the intersection of U.S. 61. Robert Bradford, Adams County Emergency Management director, said northbound travelers cannot turn left from U.S. 61 onto Morgantown Road. “They will have to turn left at McDonald’s,” Bradford said. He said traffic from Morgantown Road should take T. Waring Bennett to Covington Road and then go to U.S. 61.
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1 week ago | 
natchezdemocrat.com | Jan Griffey
Published 1:54 pm Wednesday, April 16, 2025 NATCHEZ — Bennie Thompson held a town hall meeting in Natchez Tuesday night. No stun guns were necessary, and no one was arrested, as is happening elsewhere in the country during some similar events. Instead, the approximately 200 citizens who filled the sanctuary at New Beginnings Missionary Baptist Church listened to Thompson’s take on the current climate in Washington and the workings of the Trump administration.
