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/ 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 someone littering, said Natchez Police Chief Joseph Daughtry. The mayor said those caught could get off wi...

/ 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 war, but Alderman Billie Joe Frazier said it should be. The men it honors “were traitorous to the Un...

/ 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 Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks has committed to pay 50 percent of the costs, the rest of the ...