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NATCHEZ, Miss. - Mayor Dan Gibson broke Natchez aldermen's 3-3 ties to give pay raises Tuesday to three city e...

NATCHEZ, Miss. -A construction company has been contracted for about $350,000 to renovate the North Natchez Pa...

NATCHEZ, Miss. (March 11) - Mayor Dan Gibson said he's uncertain what the new owners of the old Natchez Genera...

Police are looking for the driver who hit 59-year-old Raymond Alexander

/ ListenUpYall.com Jul 13, 2021 | 9:28 PM NATCHEZ, Miss. – Mayor Dan Gibson broke a 3-3 city board tie Tuesday to move forward on selling the old Natchez General Hospital to owners of an adjacent mansion. The vote came amid allegations this is to keep blacks out of a neighborhood of whites opposed to the vacant facility becoming apartments.   The Natchez Board of Aldermen deadlocked on beginning the process for selling the city-owned blighted property to Ginger and James Hyland, who own T...

/ ListenUpYall.com Apr 28, 2021 | 12:32 PM NATCHEZ, Miss – The Board of Aldermen voted Tuesday to increase the fine for littering as Natchez officials express alarm about so much trash being strewn around town.   “It’s a problem,” said Mayor Dan Gibson, who got the board to approve a $500 fine on litterbugs caught by police. “We need to have an amount that will get people’s attention.”     While the fine is being raised, it can only be imposed if police officers witness someon...

/ ListenUpYall.com Apr 14, 2021 6:44 AM NATCHEZ, Miss. – The city Board of Aldermen is considering a request to remove the Natchez Confederate monument at Memorial Park placed there in 1890.   This comes a week after Mayor Dan Gibson unveiled plans to erect another monument at the Main Street park to honor black Union soldiers who fought in the Civil War.   Gibson is not calling for taking down the statue that memorializes Confederate soldiers from Natchez-Adams County killed during the wa...

/ ListenUpYall.com Jan 27, 2021 5:35 AM NATCHEZ, Miss. — The city board green-lighted plans Tuesday for heating the community’s new swimming pool and making other upgrades that were stalled last year.   Natchez aldermen’s 4-2 vote of approval Tuesday is contingent on the Adams County Board of Supervisors paying half of the costs. A state grant has been awarded to partially pay for the pool improvements, which last year were estimated to cost at least $345,000.   While the state Depart...