Learning in Retirement holds monthly luncheon
1 day ago · Wesson News Tristian Peavey speaks to the LIR program The LIR program is a Co-Lin programThe Institute for Learning in Retirement program at Co-Lin Wesson recently held its September luncheon. The group’s guest speaker was Tristan Peavey, extension agent at MSU Extension Service. Peavey, a Brookhaven native and a graduate of Brookhaven High School and Mississippi State University, spoke on ...
Wesson Legion, an active family
3 days ago · Wesson News The American Legion supports its “Four Pillars” - veterans, defense, youth and Americanism. "Be a part of making a difference in this community by joining the American Legion Drane-Prine Post 79 in Wesson," said Bobby Thornton, post commander. The organization holds monthly meetings on the third Tuesday of each month starting at 6:30 pm. at the post, which is located at 1014 ...
Veterans Memorial dedication set for November 11
4 days ago · By Bob Arnold Active and retired military personnel, leaders and members of veterans organizations, representatives of agencies and groups serving veterans and public officials and other dignitaries are expected to help the Town of Wesson dedicate a long-planned veterans memorial at an 11 a.m. ceremony on November 11. The Town’s public works department completed work on the memorial and ...
Old Wesson School: Lifelong champions fight to preserve historic …
Jan 22, 2024 · The Old Wesson Public School, known affectionately as Old Wesson School, was first built in 1889. It served as the first brick school building for children in the area. Initially, the school was set to house grades kindergarten through 8th grade. The first semester of the Old Wesson Public School started in September 1889.
Wesson welcomes new BBQ restaurant
Sep 10, 2024 · Wesson News The new, family-owned Fire House BBQ is now open in town in the former Dump’s BBQ location. New owners Lenzie and Michelle Chambers of Wesson had a soft opening in mid-August but say they are in full-blown “restaurant mode” now. Ken and Kris Sullivan closed Dump’s to start a new chapter in their lives. The Sullivans now serve in ministry, pastoring at Union Hill Baptist ...
Annual flea market hits the streets Oct. 19 - wessonnews.com
Oct 7, 2024 · Wesson News For the fifty-third time, the streets of downtown Wesson will be filled with vendors for the annual Wesson Flea Market, sponsored by the Wesson Volunteer Fire Department. On Saturday, October 19, crafters, artisans and more from around the Southeast will converge on Wesson to offer arts and crafts items, fleas, clothing, food, snacks and refreshments, among other things, to ...
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ABOUT US. The Wesson News is a monthly, “Good News”, hyper-local newspaper that is published on the second Tuesday of the month. The first issue of the Wesson News was printed on September 10, 2013. The Wesson News covers news and events for Wesson, Mississippi, Brookhaven, MS, and the surrounding areas. Who’s who at the Wesson News ...
Family tradition continues with Wesson pharmacist
Oct 10, 2024 · KC Family Pharmacy is located at 657 Caldwell Drive in Hazlehurst. Pictured inside KC Family Pharmacy are (front) pharmacist Dana Brooks Shoemake and owner/pharmacist Abby Garcia, and (back) Garcia’s nephew and pharmacy employee Preston Kasch Utz. Abby Garcia’s grandparents, Lester and Katie Furr, and Lonnie and Iris Freeman, circa 1961, in ...
2 transplants build local business - Wesson News
Jul 23, 2024 · Special to Wesson News A building in Wesson on Highway 51, still often called the “old Sunflower Grocery store” by locals and a Halloween season haunted house that brought visitors to town for several years is now the site of a business dream of two local transplants. Ricky Breazeale, who came to town nine years ago with his Wesson native wife Jessica to help care for her mother after her ...
Founders Day celebrates town's life - wessonnews.com
May 11, 2021 · Founders Day, traditionally an occasion to commemorate Wesson history, was a celebration of town life and a bourgeoning new post-pandemic normalcy this year.It was an event-filled evening and day on April 30 and May 1 with a band concert, a variety of musical entertainment, a Glow Run/Walk, art walk, arts, crafts and flea market; car show and snacks, refreshments and meals.The Wesson Chamber ...