Ann Abadie: A Quiet, Longtime Force on Mississippi’s Cultural Front Gets Her Due
Ann Abadie of Oxford has won the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters 2020 Noel Polk Lifetime Achievement Award, although she favors a background role. She was deeply embedded in the founding of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and the Southern Foodways Alliance at the University of Mississippi, associate editor of “The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture” and “The Mississippi Encyclopedia” and more.
Former JSU Football Player Gets Boss to Donate Computers to South Jackson Child Development Center
Zach, an IT specialist, is paying it forward by using his connections to help the Greenway School in south Jackson. His employer, City Electric Supply, a family-owned electrical business in Dallas, Texas, has donated five computers to the center.
Mississippi Could Lose Billions Amid Trailing Census Response as Sept. 30 Deadline Nears
Mississippi schools, cities and families stand to lose millions in federal funds if enough residents do not respond to the 2020 Census by the Sept. 30 deadline. U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker warned in a statement earlier this month that the state was “lagging well behind the national response rate.”
