⢠Christeâ Harris-Leech has been named to the board of directors of First American National Bank. She is a native of Iuka and is the daughter of Glenn Ray and Dianne L. Harris.
Her roots with First American run deep as her first job outside of working for her dad at J.P. Coleman State Park was as a part-time teller at FANB through high school and college.
Leech is a 1994 graduate of Tishomingo County High School. She attended Northeast Mississippi Community College before transferring to the University of Mississippi, where in 1998, she earned a double B.A. Â in Banking and Finance and Managerial Finance. In 2001, she graduated from Mississippi College School of Law with a Juris Doctorate.
Church honors Dr. Jerry Young and First Lady Helen Young for 41 years of pastoral service
Church honors Dr. Jerry Young and First Lady Helen Young for 41 years of pastoral service
By Jackie Hampton,
Dr. Jerry Young and First Lady Helen Young
Pastor Jerry Young and First Lady Helen Young were honored Sunday by the New Hope church family in recognition of Dr. Young’s 41st pastoral anniversary. The virtual ceremony was held at New Hope Baptist Church where church members and friends were able to participate through Face Book and YouTube. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, only a limited number of participants were in the sanctuary located at 1559 Beasley Road in Jackson.
Women for Progress hosts virtual Jackson Mayoral Debate
Women for Progress hosts virtual Jackson Mayoral Debate
Staff Writer,
Downing, Lumumba, Wilson
Women for Progress of MS, Inc., along with sponsoring partners, hosted a 2021 City of Jackson Mayoral Debate, Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 7 p.m. virtually at Mississippi College School of Law. Only three of the eight candidates running for mayor participated in the debate.
D’Andra Orey, professor of political science at Jackson State University and Donna Ladd, publisher,
Jackson Free Press served as moderators for the debate.
Incumbent Mayor of Jackson, Chokwe Antar Lumumba and Kenneth Wilson are the Democrats who participated in the debate along with Ponto “Ronnie” Downing, the only Republican that participated in the City of Jackson Mayoral Debate.
As Jackson s water crisis continues, outside communities are bringing water to residents in need Keisha Rowe, Mississippi Clarion Ledger
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Eddie Staten pushed a grocery cart nearly a mile to the Mississippi College School of Law on Sunday for one reason to find clean water.
Staten is one of the thousands of people in Jackson who were affected by the massive water outage after two winter storms swept through Mississippi in mid-February. Nearly three weeks later, pockets of the city still have no service.
He s one of the luckier ones his water has returned. But Staten said his pressure is low and his toilet still doesn t flush. And sometimes when he turns the faucet on, the water comes out brown.
bring more than 1,900 cases of bottled water to Jackson.
When the storms hit, Land said he was also under a boil water advisory, but his problems resolved after a few days. He said he s never heard of an outage lasting nearly as long as the one in Jackson and felt compelled to help. I saw the news story and figured I needed to do something, he said.
Land said after talking with others
in the organization, he spoke with his father, Jeff Land, and began coordinating how to bring water to the Charles Clark American Inn of Courts in Jackson.