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The city of Jackson is encouraging residents to take tree limbs, yard debris and unwanted household items to the following locations from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday:

Ward 1: Ridgewood Place (west off Ridgewood Road, two blocks south of County Line Road)
Ward 2: Echelon Parkway and Watkins Drive
Ward 3: Todd Street (west off Martin Luther King Jr. Drive)
Ward 4: Twelve Oak Circle (west off Highway 18, south of MetroCenter Mall)
Ward 5: 1900 block of Valley Street at Booker Street
Ward 6: 520 Sykes Road, Sykes Community Center
Ward 7: Choctaw Road and Seminole Avenue (east off North State Street, behind Meadowbrook Shopping Center)

Tires, chemicals and gas tanks are not permitted for disposal. For more information call the city at 601-960-0000 or visit the city’s website.

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The Mississippi Free Press produced this story through the MFP Solutions Lab, supported by the Solutions Journalism Network. This series digs into Mississippi’s systemic issues and sheds light on responses to them in other communities. Beyond just reporting on problems, these stories interrogate their causes and inspect potential solutions.

Mississippi native Donna Ladd and partner Todd Stauffer founded the Jackson Free Press in 2002 in the capital city. The heavily awarded local newspaper did many investigations heralded across the state and nation and served as a paper of record due to its diversity, inclusion, in-depth reporting and deep connection to readers and dedication to narrative change in and about Mississippi. In 2022, the nonprofit Mississippi Free Press, founded by Ladd and JFP Associate Publisher Kimberly Griffin in 2020, purchased the journalism assets and archives of the Jackson Free Press. A Google grant through AAN Publishers enabled Newspack's integration of the JFP archives into the Mississippi Free Press website to become part of a more searchable archive of recent Mississippi history and essential journalism.