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Chief Health Officer and State Epidemiologist Dr. Thomas Dobbs chats with biology teacher Ms. Suzanne Eskrigge and Biomedical Club president Hawthorne Cleveland.

State’s chief health officer addresses Biomedical Club

By Selby Ireland and Joseph Watts October 28, 2020

At 7:30 on the morning of Wednesday, October 28, Dr. Thomas Dobbs, Mississippi’s Chief Health Officer and State Epidemiologist, spoke at this year's first Biomedical Club meeting. His topics of discussion...

Barrett confirmed after quick but intense process

Barrett confirmed after quick but intense process

By Joseph Watts, News Editor October 28, 2020

On September 18, 2020, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, passed away after serving for 27 years on the United States’ highest court.  Ginsburg started her legal career...

New broadcasting class puts Prep in the news

New broadcasting class puts Prep in the news

By Joseph Watts, News Editor October 23, 2020

As of this year, Jackson Prep has its own news channel on YouTube: JP Broadcast. The news channel is run by the newly formed Broadcast Media class, which was started this August by Mr. Bobby Gross, the...

3 seniors named “25 students who will change the world”

3 seniors named “25 students who will change the world”

By Lily Flowers, Photography Editor October 23, 2020

Every year, Portico magazine showcases “25 seniors who will change the world.”  Portico asks local high school principals and counselors to choose five upcoming seniors who shine both inside and...

Homecoming Court presentation delayed to Oct. 23

Homecoming Court presentation delayed to Oct. 23

By John Henry Andress, Editor October 7, 2020

The presentation of this year’s Homecoming Court and the crowning of the Homecoming Queen has been delayed by two weeks. Due to Hurricane Delta, disruptive weather is expected to interfere with Friday...

KD Smith holds up some of the peanut butter donated for the MAD Project

Students around Jackson go MAD for Peanut Butter and Jelly 

By Jake Mathews October 1, 2020

Over the past few weeks, sophomore Anna Blaire Bryant has been collecting peanut butter on the Jackson Prep campus for the Mississippi Food Network in a friendly competition against Jackson Academy...

Mississippi to vote on new state flag

Mississippi to vote on new state flag

By Maggie Boswell and Walker Poole September 28, 2020

On June 30, 2020, the state of Mississippi retired its flag after 126 years. The flag contained a Confederate emblem that has drawn controversy for years. Although Mississippi currently does not have a...

The students did multiple tasks in the library to replace the access points.

MAD Project leads to installation of new on-campus WiFi

By John Henry Andress September 24, 2020

Over a three weekend period, a large group of students led by Walker Headley, a junior, and Ms. Laura Bishop, Head of IT, has been installing new WiFi routers all over campus. This is a MAD project,...

National Merit Semifinalists announced

National Merit Semifinalists announced

By Lilly Noble and Cass Rutledge September 24, 2020

Prep released the list of National Merit Semifinalists, a prestigious group of seniors who did exceptionally well on the PSAT their junior year. This year’s award winners from Prep are John Henry Andress,...

The Jackson Prep varsity football team runs out of the tunnel for the season opener against Heritage.

Stressful but successful start to the year

By John Henry Andress September 24, 2020

As the summer progressed, Prep made several changes to the daily routine of students and faculty so that they could go to school while on campus, hopefully for the entire school year. The school does not...

Coach Mariclaire Nix meets with her One School, Many Books group.

Reading takes center stage for “One School, Many Books”

By John Henry Andress September 2, 2020

One School Many Books, a community reading program at Prep led by Mr. Richard Younce, was held on Tuesday, September 1. This is an event in which students read a book that was also read by a faculty...

Zoom issues seemed mainly confined to the U.S. and parts of the U.K., according to this outage map from downdetector.com.

Zoom issues hit U.S., Prep, on Monday morning

By Dax Murphy August 24, 2020

On Monday morning, August 24, some Prep teachers with students attending remotely found themselves unable to easily access Zoom. While some may have initially believed that the problem was with the new...

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