Dispatches
Retired Sun Herald publisher Roland Weeks, credited with persuading divergent Mississippi Coast communities to speak in one regional development voice, is the 2008 recipient of the Capt. William Harris Hardy Founder’s Day Award…Ed Nichols, who recently took the reins of the Clarksdale Press-Register as publisher, has assumed the same duties for the Greenville Delta Democrat Times. Both papers are owned by Jackson-based Emmerich group. Nichols succeeds John Clark in Greenville.