Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony for Blackburn Learning Garden, Today
Jackson State University and Blackburn Laboratory Middle School will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 22, to celebrate the completion of Phase I of its [...]
Neighborhoods
Pictures from Stewpot’s Little Free Library Ceremony
On February 24th, community partners met at Stewpot’s Community House to unveil the 3rd Little Free Library in West Jackson. There were over 100 children from the after [...]
Stewpot Getting Little Free Library, Wednesday
The Center for University-Based Development at JSU in collaboration with Stewpot, Zoo Area Progressive Partnership, and Repurpsed Projects will be unveiling the third Little [...]
Dan & Annie Course, Gardening for Fun
Dan Course and Annie Course have lived in their home on Arbor Vista Blvd. for the past 45 years. Ever since they moved in their home they have been gardening for a hobby. [...]
ZAPP Transforms Corner in Front of Jackson Zoo
The Zoo Area Progressive Partnership (ZAPP) organized a clean up day for Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service on January 18th. They had over 80 volunteers help clean up [...]
Blackburn Learning Garden, Creation Day was Huge Success
Overview The Blackburn Middle School Learning Garden has been in the works for the past two years and during that time several community partners joined together to ensure [...]
5th Graders at Poindexter Elementary Plant Garden at School
During the past few weeks the 5th grade class at Poindexter Elementary was preparing to plant a garden at their school. Students learned about sustainability and what types [...]
Coop-A-Doodle-Doo, Cooperative Community Project
Each day, Pecan Park Elementary School students living between Claiborne Avenue and Valley Street walk to and from school on a sidewalk that is trashed, overrun with weeds [...]
Poindexter Elementary Gets Garden
This past week Keep Jackson Beautiful helped build a vegetable and fruit garden for Poindexter Elementary School located at the corner of Rose and Robinson Road. Marsha [...]
Jackson Zoo Releases Master Plan
Over the past year the Jackson Zoo contracted with PJA, a Seattle-based architecture firm specializing in zoo design, to complete a ten year plan for the zoo. The Jackson Zoo [...]
