KELLY ROMA: CAPTURES FIRST PLACERaymond Chamber of Commerce Reenactment T-Shirt Design Contest by Rebecca B. Drake First prize winner, Kelly Roma of Vicksburg, of the 1998 Vicksburg Campaign Reenactment T-Shirt contest, sponsored by the Raymond Chamber of Commerce. Kelly is in her last semester of Commercial Art Technology and plans to start working full time […]

The Dupree-Ratliff House, home of Jessie and Tad thrash, had over 500 visitors during the Tour of Homes. All nine homes listed on the tour reported record crowds. Mike Wallace, Norman Fisher and Richard Williams, members of the 1st U.S. Mississippi Colored Infantry of Jackson, joined in the Raymond celebration.