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The Commercial Dispatch has filed a public records complaint with the Mississippi Ethics Commission against the Clay County Circuit Clerk’s Office alleging they failed to provide requested documents from county election qualifying forms.

Readers of The Dispatch will soon be without a weekly Kroger insert ad, due to the company’s decision to cease weekly circulars for the market after May 24.

City leaders in Columbus responded to questions about a Freedom Of Information Act request and Ethics Complaint filed by WCBI.

After nearly 100 years, The Commercial Dispatch will no longer be delivered door-to-door by carriers, according to publisher Peter Imes.

“It’s like playing a video game, I guess,” said Berkley Hudson. “Throwing papers, getting them on the porch. That’s fun. It’s a challenge. Some houses are farther back from the street, sometimes you’d have someone in the yard who’d try to catch it in mid-air.”

For Christmas this year I gave some out-of-town friends a copy of Berkley Hudson’s both delightful and thought provoking book, “O.N. Pruitt’s Possum Town: Photographing Trouble and Resilience in the American South.” I recall talking to Berkley as he was working on it and had high expectations. He exceeded them.

The Commercial Dispatch has withdrawn a story originally published May 24, 2020 and revised on July 30, 2020, about two workers employed by Tuscaloosa-based Southern Civil Contracting who were killed in a Starkville trench collapse.

Lowndes County will kick the holiday season off with a bang this week with multiple events.

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