Roses and thorns 2-21-10

Mississippi State Bulldog fans; Columbus Municipal School District Teacher of the Year Cindy Ming; Lowndes County Board of Supervisors; and Caledonia teacher Terry Wiygul

Roses and thorns 2-7-10

Mississippi University for Women supporters; New Hope High School junior Meredith Barefield; Columbus Cultural Heritage Foundation; Gen. Joseph Fant; and Kabir Karriem and other organizers of the Seventh Avenue Festival.

Roses and thorns 1-24-10

Roses to Oasis of Freedom and Justice Award recipients;Columbus Ward 2 Councilman Joseph Mickens; and the family and friends of four Mississippi University for Women students

Roses and thorns 1-10-10

Columbus City Council;The Friends of The W and Junior Auxiliary of Columbus

Roses and thorns 12-20-09

Students at Immanuel Center for Christian Education; Chelsea Phillips; 4-County employees and customers; Julie Jordan; and Andrew Gaston

Roses and thorns 12-13-09

parade winners; West Point High Green Wave football team; West Point selectmen; and Columbus and Starkville school districts

Roses and thorns 11-29-09

Andrea Cannady; Columbus-Lowndes Recreation Authority, Concerned Citizens of Ward 1, the Columbus Police Department and all area volunteers who helped bring Thanksgiving to more than 1,000 area residents; Mississippi State University students; West Point and the Aberdeen high school football teams; and East Mississippi Community College Lions

Roses and thorns 11-15-09

Ward 3 Councilman Charlie Box; The Friends of the W; and the 1,000 households in Starkville that have signed up for the city’s curbside recycling program.

Roses and thorns 11-1-09

Columbus Convention and Visitors Bureau; Mississippi University for Women nursing department;and vandals who have damaged or stolen more than $750 in autumn decorations in downtown Columbus

Roses and thorns 10/25/09

Roses to Mississippi University for Women for bringing us another year of the Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium, held at the college last week. Each October, the Department of Languages, Literature and Philosophy sponsors the Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium to honor the Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

Roses and thorns 10-18-09

Organizers of a plethora of events and festivals over the weekend; David Bouchard; Heritage Academy students, parents and alumni; and Starkville citizens

Roses and thorns 10-11-09

Local school districts; Caledonia Mayor George Gerhart, Sen. Terry Brown, Rep. Jeff Smith and East Mississippi Community College Entrepreneurial Development Facilitator Bruce Hanson; Starkville Parks and Recreation Department;organizers of Dream 365; and the Caledonia High School band, cheerleaders, and dance team.

Roses and thorns 9/27/09

A thorn to the leadership of Kappa Sigma and Lamda Chi Alpha fraternities at Mississippi State University, both of which now are on probation until May 15, 2010.

Roses and thorns 9-20-09

Lowndes County supervisors, Columbus City Council and Columbus-Lowndes Recreation Authority; Columbus-Lowndes Development Link; Penny Bowen; and Heritage Academy students who helped compile “Passionately Pink”

Roses and thorns 9/13/09

A rose to Brenda Caradine and the host of volunteers who put together another extraordinary array of events celebrating the life of Columbus’ most famous native son, Tennessee Williams.

Roses and thorns 9-6-09

City of Starkville, District 3 Oktibbeha County Supervisor Marvell Howard, Main Street, East Mississippi Community College and others who made the recent charrette in Columbus possible, Starkville Ward 6 Alderman Roy A. Perkins, Mike Law and other organizers and participants of Roast-n-Boast, NBA player Travis Outlaw and those who participated in Starkville’s Clean Sweep

Roses and Thorns 8/30/09

Roses to Aberdeen's Matthias Fischer and others; local U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Camp Atterbury; friends and family of U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Mark M. Wheeler; and Mississippi State University's bike sharing program. A thorn to the Columbus City Council.

Roses and thorns 8-23-09

Mississippi University for Women, health officials at Mississippi State University, West Point Board of Selectmen, and Jim Robinson

Roses and thorns 8/9/09

A rose to the town of Caledonia, which rebounded from a devastating tornado in January 2008 in a big way this week: Students returning to classes found themselves inside a new gym and Allied Health and Trades building.

Roses and thorns 8-2-09

Teachers throughout the Golden Triangle, United Way Pacesetters, Kabir Karriem, Charlie Box and Bill Gavin, Starkville Rotary Club

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