Peter Imes

Since the announcement of Mississippi Brightwell University as the new chosen name for Mississippi University for Women, many have been concerned with Urban Dictionary’s definition of “brightwell.”

The most consequential portions of Tuesday’s Columbus City Council meeting were at the very beginning.

In 1994 I took and passed the exam to receive my drivers license. I was 16.

All your local must-do festivals, openings, movies, deals and music so you can’t say, ‘There’s nothing to do.’

Partially as a reward for receiving scholarship money to attend Mississippi State, my parents bought me a Toyota truck during my last year of high school.

Delay to a 7:45 start. Please come! The bands are ready to do a great show and we want you here.

Recently, Mississippi University for Women announced plans to extend its consideration of a name change in part due to lower than expected participation in surveys and focus groups.

A worker at Liquor World, located at 1928 Highway 45 North, has been arrested after allegedly faking an armed robbery, according to a Columbus Police

Yesterday was the last day of National Newspaper Week, which is meant to recognize the service of newspapers. I tend to be somewhat dismissive of such

Yesterday was the last day of National Newspaper Week, which is meant to recognize the service of newspapers. I tend to be somewhat dismissive of such

Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science student James Talamo, a junior from Vardaman, performs Monday night at Sandfield Cemetery as Cyrus Green, a Quaker from Indiana who moved to Columbus in 1866 to serve as a teacher at the Freedmen’s Bureau School, which would later become Union Academy.

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In the final 15 minutes of last night’s three hour city council meeting the council took up the most important decision it currently faces: hiring three key positions.

“What do they have to hide?” “Why wouldn’t they want one?”

“What do they have to hide?” “Why wouldn’t they want one?”

In Friday’s edition of The Dispatch, I shared an excerpt of a company memo I sent to my 35 employees on Thursday. In that memo, I explained that I was seriously considering a company-wide vaccine mandate, primarily due to how disruptive continued COVID-related absences are to our business.

When I was around 13 years old, I took horseback riding lessons from Jan Swoope at her house in the Prairie. Each day, my mother would drop me in Jan’s driveway. I’d walk past the hollowed out tree trunk her son Dudley used as a playhouse — I was always envious of such a whimsical play place — and head straight to the barn, where I would brush the horses and clean their hooves as Jan had taught me.

The Commercial Dispatch staff took home 14 awards Saturday in the editorial division of the 2013 Mississippi Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest.

A mystery man was spotted in downtown Columbus on Thursday.

The recent phone hacking scandal in the U.K. has so far resulted in multiple resignations, arrests and the closure of a 168-year-old newspaper.