FOOD & DRINK

Curves in Brookhaven held its final workout Friday morning. Owner Debbie Smith is retiring after 27 years and opted to not sell the franchise located at 122 East Monticello Street to anyone. Brookhaven’s Curves was the oldest franchise location and the last Mississippi location still open. Curves is a fitness...

BROOKHAVEN — Sonic, Los Parrilleros and McDonalds received health inspections this week according to the Mississippi Department of Health records. B-Town Enterprises LLC and Dat Truck recieved health inspections last Friday as mentioned in the announcement of Vintage Style Coffee coming to town.  Sonic, located at 934 Brookway Boulevard, received an A grade from the […] The post Sonic blasts, happy meals and salsa, local restaurants pass health inspections appeared first on Daily Leader.

BROOKHAVEN — Visit Brookhaven shared a vintage photo of the Inez Coffee Shop on Monticello Street last week and it just so happens a new vintage coffee shop will open up just down the road from the Inez. Vintage Style Cold Brew Coffee will be located at 128 West Monticello Street.  The new Brookhaven business […] The post Vintage coffee coming to Brookhaven appeared first on Daily Leader.

Brookhaven Animal Rescue League needs donations to keep operating as a no-kill shelter, and has a summery new incentive to help raise funding. BARL volunteers are selling tickets for a chance at a six-night stay at an Airbnb in Gulf Breeze, Florida. Tickets are $25 or five for $100 for this prize valued at $1,200. […] The post BARL: Win a Florida vacation and help the animals appeared first on Daily Leader.

BROOKHAVEN — Brown butcher paper fills the doors and windows of El Dorado Mexican Bar and Grill and screens anyone from being able to look inside. A sign on the door says the restaurant apologizes for closing suddenly.  Located at 912 Brookway Boulevard in Brookhaven, El Dorado says in their message to customers their reason […] The post ‘This isn’t a goodbye, but a see you soon,’ local restaurant closes doors appeared first on Daily Leader.

Reading opens worlds of possibilities — both for the reader and the one being read to. Ferst Readers of Lincoln County wants every child to have access to those possibilities. For $42 each year, a child age birth to 5 years can receive an age-appropriate book each month. “You can’t buy more than a few […] The post Help your child be Ferst in reading appeared first on Daily Leader.

JACKSON, Miss. — A metro-area teenager received close to $3 million in college scholarship offers from 38 schools from across the country. Taylor Herron, of Madison, attends Mississippi School of the Arts in Brookhaven. Her home school was Germantown High School before being accepted to MSA’s visual arts program for her 11th and 12th-grade years.

Thirty-eight Wesson Garden Club (WGC) members and youth gardeners participated in a WGC flower show last month at the Wesson Old School Community Center. Based on National Garden Club standards with different types of horticulture, design, educational and youth exhibits, “To Everything There is a Season,” capturing the spirit of the first eight verses of Ecclesiastes 3 from the Bible and Pete Seeger’s Turn, Turn, Turn popularized by the Byrds in the 1960s, thematically framed the show on April 4.