Brookhaven Daily Leader · Brookhaven, MS
On Friday, Nov. 13, 2026 the MS Adolescent Center in coordination with the City of Brookhaven Police Department, Brookhaven Fire Department, King Daughters Medical Center, Lincoln County Emergency Management, Lincoln County Sheriff Office, MS Emergency Management Agency, Lincoln County 911 Emergency Services, and MS State Department of Health will be conducting a full scale exercise at the facility. This exercise is designed to improve both the facilities response along with enhancing the first responders ability to respond to events that affect the facility. “You will see emergency vehicles and personnel in the area of the facility during the exercise, please allow room for their operations and understand that this is only an exercise,” said EMA Director Chris Reid. “Exercises are designed to allow facility staff and first responders to work together before an actual emergency takes place.
Brookhaven Daily Leader · Brookhaven, MS
The City of Brookhaven has officially declared Nov. 13 as MSA Day. The Mississippi School of the Arts will be celebrated, along with the students, creativity, talent and traditions that make MSA special. Events will begin with a 2 p.m. welcome ceremony in Lampton Auditorium on South Jackson Street. Featured will be scenes from the Theatre Department’s production of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” At 2:30 p.m., guided tours will be offered of Johnson Institute, as well as classroom visits to learn more about academic and artistic instruction and MSA instructors. The Dance Studio will also present a performance of Antonio Fini’s new work. A tour of the Student Life Center, along with dorms, library, and The Phoenix will begin at 3 p.m. At 3:45, guests can visit the Media Arts Lab and tour Enochs Hall. Guests will then gather in the Black Box Theatre on the second floor of Enochs Hall at 4 p.m., where scenes will be presented from “Junie B.
Brookhaven Daily Leader · Brookhaven, MS
Brookhaven aldermen took the first steps toward construction of a walking trail as a preventative for suicide and obesity. Dr. William Hay, a family practitioner, proposed the trail to the Board at its Nov. 3 meeting. Hay suggested a trail 10- to 12-feet wide on public land that would stretch five miles through a wooded area. He used businesses as his landmarks to give aldermen an idea of the route for the trail — Farmbelt Equipment at Natchez Drive and Hwy. 84 to the Old Koke Plant convenience store at Natchez Drive, and Hwy. 51 South, over to Road and Track Powersports at Dale Trail NE and Hwy. 51, and then back to Farmbelt. “That’s actually down a road that I’m sure you all know exists, but a lot of people don’t,” he said. “I’ve heard it called St. John Road or Old Highway 51, and it’s a public road, or it has been. And it’s grass now. It’s woods.
Brookhaven Daily Leader · Brookhaven, MS
Selman’s Jewelers opened its doors in 1945 in McComb. On Nov. 7 this year, the company opened for business in Brookhaven on South Jackson Street. Charles Selman, a watchmaker, established the store in McComb. Ownership has passed hands over the years, until 2023 when Kristin Ratliff — daughter of previous owners Betsy and Lamar Murrell — took the reins. The fourth-generation jeweler earned her Graduate Gemologist (GG) diploma from the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) — following in her father’s footsteps and continuing her family’s tradition of excellence in the jewelry industry. Ratliff began her full-time career at Selman’s in December 2008 after graduating from Mississippi State University and studying at GIA’s Jewelry Design School in New York City. She later began pursuing her Graduate Gemologist diploma but paused her studies for eight years to focus on raising her children, Davis and Eloise.
