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The United Way Lowndes and Noxubee is bolstering education, health and financial stability initiatives across the Golden Triangle by funding five new agencies across multiple counties.

The Columbus-Lowndes Convention and Visitors Bureau has two new members coming to its board.

Lowndes County Emergency Management Agency Director Cindy Lawrence learned how to work a disaster the hard way.

“It’s from one thing to another,” Lowndes County Emergency Management Director Cindy Lawrence told The Dispatch Wednesday. “First it was ice, now it’s water.”

Plus: A Joe Biden abortion rally turns into a pro-Palestinian protest.

When the temperature dropped in the Golden Triangle this week, places to warm up opened in both Lowndes and Oktibbeha County.

Bridgeway Church will have to wait a bit before it can complete its parking lot expansion, which its leadership says is necessary to address huge growth in the church’s attendance.

Columbus City Council giveth, and it taketh away.

The Columbus Redevelopment Authority board voted Thursday to hire Cornerstone Government Affairs, a Washington D.C.-based lobbying firm, to pursue additional funding for its Burns Bottom redevelopment project.

There are people who want to repair the Oktibbeha County Lake dam and others who want to see the lake decommissioned.