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Dec 30, 2023 | 
vicksburgpost.com | John Surratt
Published 8:39 pm Saturday, December 30, 2023 Sunday, starting between 10 and 11 p.m. and going until midnight or 12:30 a.m. Monday, the congregations at several African American churches in Warren County will participate in a service with foundations in the United States and Europe.
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Dec 30, 2023 | 
vicksburgpost.com | John Surratt
Published 9:43 am Saturday, December 30, 2023 Tornado levels Rolling ForkLife in Rolling Fork was turned upside down March 24 when an EF5 tornado struck the South Delta, leaving 17 people dead —13 in Rolling Fork — and causing widespread destruction in the South Delta. According to a preliminary report from the National Weather Service, the storm was classified as a “high end EF4” tornado with winds of 195 mph.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
vicksburgpost.com | John Surratt
Published 9:23 pm Friday, December 29, 2023 This may be my last column. After 44 years as a journalist — the last 12 spent here at The Vicksburg Post — I am putting away my computer, clearing out my desk, handing back my keys and retiring. I’ve been considering retirement for about two years, initially planning to cover one more city election before I closed my career.
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Dec 29, 2023 | 
vicksburgpost.com | John Surratt
Published 2:39 pm Friday, December 29, 2023 The little girl who grew up at the bottom of the hill is now at the top. Friday, as members of the Vicksburg Board of Mayor and Aldermen and her family and friends looked on, Deborah Nickson was sworn in as Vicksburg city clerk, replacing City Clerk Walter Osborne who has retired. “It is my highest honor to swear in Deborah Nickson as city clerk of the City of Vicksburg,” Mayor George Flaggs Jr. said before administering Nickson’s oath of office.
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Dec 28, 2023 | 
vicksburgpost.com | John Surratt
Published 11:32 am Thursday, December 28, 2023 A Brentwood, Tenn. design firm has been hired to design trail markers for the Kuhn Memorial Civil Rights Park. The Board of Mayor and Aldermen on Dec. 22 approved a contract totaling $9,720 with en8 Design to develop the markers for the park, which is on the site of the former Kuhn Memorial Hospital on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Mayor George Flaggs Jr. proposed the park at a Nov.
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Dec 27, 2023 | 
vicksburgpost.com | John Surratt
Published 9:18 am Wednesday, December 27, 2023 A fugitive from Copiah County managed to elude Warren County sheriff’s deputies for several hours before being arrested Dec. 22 on Jeffers Hollows Road. Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said Copiah County authorities notified Warren County on Dec. 21 that John Skipworth, who is originally from Warren County, was wanted for felony eluding and assault on a police officer and was in the Warren County area.
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Dec 26, 2023 | 
vicksburgpost.com | John Surratt
Published 9:34 pm Tuesday, December 26, 2023 A Vicksburg man is being held without bond in the Warren County Jail charged with three counts of sexual battery of a child under the age of 14. Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said Malcolm Ward, 31, surrendered to investigator Lt. Stacy Rollinson on Dec. 20. Justice Court Judge Randy Lewis declined to set bond for Ward at an initial appearance in Justice Court. Pace said the arrest is the result of an investigation that identified Ward as a suspect.
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Dec 26, 2023 | 
vicksburgpost.com | John Surratt
Published 2:51 pm Tuesday, December 26, 2023 A Vicksburg man faces a charge of felony eluding after he led Warren County sheriff’s deputies on a chase Monday night that ended when he wrecked the pickup truck he was driving near Sherman Avenue and Standard Hill Road. Tabares Ross, 26, is being held without bond in the Warren County Jail pending an initial appearance in Justice Court.
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Dec 26, 2023 | 
vicksburgpost.com | John Surratt
Published 8:29 am Tuesday, December 26, 2023 Completion of the Vicksburg Animal Shelter has been pushed back to February. Community Development Director Jeff Richardson told the Board of Mayor and Aldermen at its Friday meeting that the completion date was moved back from January to mid-February during discussion about a change order request from contractor Fordice Construction to upgrade a circuit for the dryer at the shelter.
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Dec 23, 2023 | 
vicksburgpost.com | John Surratt
Published 5:05 pm Saturday, December 23, 2023 Before the start of the 5 p.m. Christmas Vigil Mass at St. Paul Catholic Church, the children of the parish will continue a church tradition that reminds the parishioners of the reason for the season. The children’s program at St. Paul’s begins at 4:40 p.m. and involves 30 children from ages newborn through high school playing the roles of angels, shepherds, the wise men and Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus as they re-enact the first Christmas.
