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Super Bowl Sunday detour in the Golden Triangle

The state is again closing eastbound Highway 82 for more work on the bridge for Old West Point Road.

This will start Sunday morning and run for nearly 24 hours. The closure will again only affect the eastbound lanes from the Highway 45 Macon exit to Main Street in Columbus.

Traffic heading for Columbus on Highway 82 will be sent through West Point before drivers can reenter the eastbound lanes from Highway 45 North. Those driving from Columbus to Starkville will not be affected.

The firm working on the bridge told The Commercial Dispatch more work will be required on the bridge after this weekend. However, that future work will not shut down eastbound traffic.

One final run

They turned out in Downtown Columbus to see something that will never happen again.

People packed into the basement of The Commercial Dispatch to watch an old printing press run one final time.

The newspaper will no longer be printed in Columbus after more than 100 years.

Instead, it will be printed at the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal in Tupelo before being shipped back to the Golden Triangle for delivery.

Publisher Peter Imes says the move made sense since it is tougher to find parts and people to work on the 70-year-old printing press, which the newspaper bought used in 1969.

Imes adds delivery times will not change and the paper will have more color on its pages.

However, the paper will now come in a single section instead of two.

You can listen to the entire interview with Imes below about the decision to outsource the printing of the Golden Triangle’s main newspaper.