Letter: Supports Keith Gaskin for mayor
By George Hazard 6 hours ago
When you look at the present contest for mayor, three parts of Keith Gaskin’s platform are especially attractive: infrastructure; public safety; and community and culture.
The city’s infrastructure is the aspect of Columbus life that we all see. Except for the comparatively independent Columbus Light and Water Department, that aspect of city life is discouraging wherever we look. Snake-like braids of hair lay on College Street for two weeks. We see the crooked public signs (for example, the Friendship Cemetery marker at Main and Seventh streets), upended Riverwalk benches not replaced and of course the lingering, irritating and embarrassing street troubles everywhere. Every citizen has these corrosive encounters every day.
Columbus man indicted for armed robbery, carjacking
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Town hall focuses on youth programs, police patrols
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Columbus Mayor Robert Smith and Police Chief Fred Shelton talk about proposed solutions to violent crime, while police and city council members stand behind them at a press conference outside City Hall Thursday. The city will host a town hall meeting to address crime on Monday, and Smith and Shelton announced the city will increase police patrols at night, implement driver’s licenses and safety checkpoints and install surveillance cameras throughout the city to help curb crime. Isabelle Altman/Dispatch Staff
City officials have invited the public to a town hall meeting at 6 p.m. Monday in Trotter Convention Center to hear concerns and propose solutions to the recent increase in gun violence in Columbus and the surrounding areas.
Fight between city workers ended in stabbing and arrest, Columbus police chief says
Columbus Police Chief Fred Shelton says the fight happened near Pickensville Road in south Columbus.
Posted: May 5, 2021 4:18 PM
Updated: May 5, 2021 4:20 PM
Posted By: Zac Carlisle
COLUMBUS, Miss. (WTVA) - Police say a fight between two city public works employees resulted in a stabbing arrest Wednesday.
Columbus Police Chief Fred Shelton says the fight happened near Pickensville Road in south Columbus.
The two employees worked on the same crew and in the same work truck when they got into an argument while the truck was stopped, the police chief says.