VICKSBURG, Miss. (VDN) — River City Early College senior Kennedy Mullins has been named a semifinalist for the prestigious National Honor Society (NHS) Scholarship, standing out...
VICKSBURG, Miss. (VDN) — A failed probe to Venus, launched in 1972, will reenter Earth’s atmosphere in the next day or two. Kosmos 482 was one...
VICKSBURG, Miss. (VDN) — Built in 1901, the Sprague was once the world’s largest steam-powered sternwheeler towboat. Nicknamed “Big Mama,” it was capable of pushing 56...
VICKSBURG, Miss. by Evan Winschel (VDN) — Today’s featured plot is dedicated to Candice Newman. Like many familial histories of those who were enslaved, we know...
VICKSBURG, Miss. (VDN) — The Mississippi State Memorial in Vicksburg National Military Park was the first monument dedicated by a Southern state in the park. It...
VICKSBURG, Miss. by: Shelley Hall Tingle (VDN) — Yesterday, I stood in a parking lot outside a church, my soul full from a Holy Week luncheon,...
VICKSBURG, Miss. by Evan Winschel (VDN) — Today’s featured plot at Cedar Hill Cemetery belongs to the Honorable Robert F. Beck, a Civil War-era transplant whose...
VICKSBURG, Miss. (VDN) — Vicksburg Intermediate School (VIS) has earned Tier 1 Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS) Model Site status for the 2024–2025 academic year....
VICKSBURG, Miss. (VDN) — The completion of the Yazoo Diversion Canal in 1903 restored Vicksburg’s waterfront nearly three decades after a dramatic shift in the Mississippi...
VICKSBURG, Miss. by Evan Winschel (VDN) — Today’s featured plot is home to one of the cemetery’s most legendary inhabitants: Douglas the Camel. Vicksburg may be...
