Housing officers sweep Belhaven neighborhood

Clarion Ledger: "When Jackson code-enforcement officers pulled up Friday in front of 1426 St. Mary St. in Belhaven, Howard Gober made a run for it. Code-enforcement officer Bonnie Barthel said Gober, who owns the house, has a history of code violations and failed to appear in environmental court on Thursday. Now, police have a warrant for his arrest."...more...

Trolly and Charrette

Northside Sun: No firm numbers on first month of running new trolley in Fondren

Northside Sun: Four new designs presented at week long charrette for LeFleur Lakes

LeFleur Lakes Roundup

Madison County Journal: Lakes project said vital

Jackson Free Press: Charrette Leader: Make City ‘Walkable’ (discusses the various plans from the Charrette including the "One Lake" plan which would place the lake and smaller island south of the waterworks with a bridge from Fortification Street onto the island.

Clarion Ledger Editorial: LeFleur Lakes: Explore the possibilities

More on LeFleur Lakes

WLBT: Four Plans Presented for Pearl River Flood Control

Clarion Ledger: Jackson is in dire need of development - Comment came at meeting to discuss LeFleur Lakes plans

Neighbor Update

WLBT Three On Your Side: Update on Junky Jackson Properties: There are several updates on run down and junky properties we've featured in recent news reports. Currently the department of Community Improvement is working over twelve hundred cases of code violations....The city had to finally come and clean up the property, and they plan to send a bill to the land owner. A cleanup fee will also be sent to the owner of 1426 St. Mary Street, where a once trashy yard can now once again pass code in the Belhaven neighborhood. Lewis says, "The bill on the St. Mary Street was right at the $2,000.00 range....

LeFleur Lakes

Jackson Clarion Ledger: "A group of dozens of architects and engineers will wrap up work tonight on plans for development of the property surrounding the proposed LeFleur Lakes project. Their weeklong work session, or charrette, ends with a final presentation to the public from 7-9 p.m."....more...

Madison County Journal: "Engineer and oilman John McGowan is convinced the LeFleur's Lakes plan he conceived a decade ago will bring both flood control and landmark economic development along the Pearl River, but he says bureaucrats and environmentalists are threatening the $228 million project."....more...

Northside Sun: "APPROXIMATELY 100 landowners ring the area that could become two flood control lakes if the LeFleur Lakes project is ever green lighted, and these owners stand to reap tremendous financial gains if this land becomes developable lake-front property. A total of 106 separate people or entities, both public and private, own at least one-half of an acre of land in the LeFleur Lakes footprint according to information provided by the project’s conceiver, John McGowan."....more...

Neighborhood/City News

Northside Sun: "BELHAVEN WILL SOON BE receiving a visit from the city’s code enforcement officers as the community improvement department conducts a sweep of the neighborhood that could start as early as this week"....more...

Northside Sun: "CITY OFFICIALS ARE moving forward with a change to the traffic calming implements that are to be installed at one Belhaven intersection. A public meeting was held on February 21 to discuss a change of the future traffic calming device at the intersection of Poplar Street and Greymont Avenue."....more...

Dumpster Day

Saturday is Dumpster Day for Belhaven - Eltonwood Drive, north off Elton Road.

Residents can bring yard debris or other household items 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., weather permitting. Tires, refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners, chemicals and gas tanks will not be accepted. Businesses cannot participate, and proof of residency may be required. For more information, call the Solid Waste Division at (601) 960-1193.

Canvas and Clay

Bewey Bowden, who chaired the speech department at Belhaven College for 27 years, will present a spring show of her art at The Cedars (she discovered as an adult a wonderful talent for painting).

Canvas and Clay
Today through March 31; opening reception 5-8 p.m. today
The Cedars, 4145 Old Canton Road, Jackson
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Also, Sherry Lucas writes about it in today's Clarion Ledger.

Lakes Project

A planning forum will be held at 7 p.m. tonight at the Jackson TelCom Center to discuss development opportunities regarding the LeFleur Lakes Project and architectural design that should be considered. For more information, call Vicki Harper Blake at (601) 360-9458.

The Clarion Ledger carried this commentary today on the subject: 'Lakes' plan won't float

LeFleur Lakes Update

The Jackson Free Press and Northside Sun both recently carried pieces on the status of the LeFleur Lakes project.

JFP: "The results are in from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers study of the LeFleur Lakes project, and, according to a report in The Clarion-Ledger, the Corps says it isn’t economically feasible. Estimating a price tag of $1.2 billion—which is a figure quite north of the Lakes’ developer $200 million-$300 million estimates—the Corps doesn’t recommend federal involvement. So what’s the next logical step?"...more...

NSS: "Public officials, architects, interested citizens and others will be gathering at a week-long series of meetings to make a plan for the proposed LeFleur Lakes project. The meetings, known as a charrette, will be held from March 6 to March 12 at the Mississippi Telecommunications Conference and Training Center in downtown Jackson"...more...

Code officers

Clarion Ledger: Code officers to sweep Belhaven area for violations