WLBT 3 - Jackson, MS: Taking Back Our Neighborhoods

  • Tuesday, February 21 2012 1:10 AM EST2012-02-21 06:10:14 GMT
    Most of us have heard of the Boys and Girls Club. They've been in the Jackson area since 1936, but you may not realize how big a role they play in Taking Back Our Neighborhoods. There are two in Jackson and to say they make a difference in those communities is an understatement.

  • Tuesday, February 14 2012 12:03 AM EST2012-02-14 05:03:30 GMT
    Seventy two more blighted private properties are on target for clean up or demolition by the City of Jackson. I also have an update on a recent Taking Back Our Neighborhoods report.

  • Tuesday, January 17 2012 12:58 AM EST2012-01-17 05:58:23 GMT
    The battle against eyesores in the capital city continues in our Taking Back Our Neighborhoods report. The City of Jackson has added 24 more private properties to its clean up list. And city officials promise there are more to come.

  • Monday, January 9 2012 11:54 PM EST2012-01-10 04:54:23 GMT
    There's more progress to tell you about when it comes to Taking Back Our Neighborhoods. Remember Garden Circle off Englewood Street in West Jackson? It was not a place you'd want to live near or even drive through unless you were dumping trash illegally.

  • Monday, December 19 2011 11:37 PM EST2011-12-20 04:37:47 GMT
    The City of Jackson continues its battle with eyesores and now 49 more private properties are set for city clean up. On the list is 531 West Capitol Street. It is the church that once housed Voice of Calvary Ministries and it appears demolition work is already underway.

  • Monday, December 12 2011 11:47 PM EST2011-12-13 04:47:51 GMT
    In October, I checked out a complaint about an eyesore in downtown Jackson. A Pearl resident complained that the old LeFleur Cadillac dealership building on 318 South State Street is riddled with broken glass and trash. It's also frequently occupied by the homeless.

  • Monday, November 21 2011 11:41 PM EST2011-11-22 04:41:01 GMT
    A new shop in west Jackson has opened just in time for the holiday season. It's located on 531 West Capitol Street. What's so special about this store, you may ask? The owners aren't in it just for profit. The shop is part of a bigger plan to take back the neighborhood and minister to a community in need.

  • Tuesday, November 15 2011 12:10 AM EST2011-11-15 05:10:00 GMT
    The house next door is a burned out shell. It's also a magnet for everything bad. This house is located on 2826 Milton Drive in south Jackson and the family living next door called 3 On Your Side to help get something done about it. It was the subject of Monday's Taking Back Our Neighborhoods report.

  • Monday, November 7 2011 11:49 PM EST2011-11-08 04:49:38 GMT
    Who's responsible for maintaining property beyond fence lines in a Rankin County subdivision?That's the question a Brandon woman wants answered. Alana Donovan lives on 16 Brandy Court South. She called 3 On Your Side about the problems untrimmed trees and shrubs are causing her.

  • Monday, October 31 2011 11:59 PM EDT2011-11-01 03:59:16 GMT
    If you want to take back your neighborhood, first, you have to appreciate it enough to do it yourself. That's the philosophy of a new group in south Jackson. They targeted Shady Lane Drive Saturday, zeroing in on 2114 Shady Lane Drive.

  • Saturday, October 29 2011 12:28 AM EDT2011-10-29 04:28:21 GMT
    There is a movement underway to clean up south Jackson and take back the blighted neighborhoods in that part of the city.

  • Monday, October 17 2011 11:58 PM EDT2011-10-18 03:58:39 GMT

    Monday's Taking Back Our Neighborhoods report took 3 On Your Side to two Jackson locations; 1373 Winterview Drive in north Jackson, where neighbors reported an eyesore a year ago and south State Street in downtown Jackson where a viewer called to complain about an abandoned car dealership building.

  • Monday, October 10 2011 11:56 PM EDT2011-10-11 03:56:16 GMT
    In this Taking Back Our Neighborhoods report, we revisit a house in the Presidential Hills community to see if anything has changed since our initial report.

  • Monday, September 26 2011 11:43 PM EDT2011-09-27 03:43:04 GMT
    Taking Back Our Neighborhoods went back to a Clinton subdivision where residents are battling enormous sinkholes because of drainage problems. After our last report, a Trailwood Drive resident let us know the ditch beside his house is caving in and eating away his property. 

  • Monday, September 19 2011 11:53 PM EDT2011-09-20 03:53:33 GMT
    With rain in the forecast, some Clinton residents are nervous. There's good reason for that since their property is eroding and homes have been flooded more than once because of poor drainage. The problem areas are on Pebble Lane in the Trailwood subdivision and Cowles Creek Road in the Bruenberg subdivision.

  • Monday, September 12 2011 11:50 PM EDT2011-09-13 03:50:59 GMT
    Residents of a West Jackson community are fed up with the continual deterioration of their neighborhood.  They called a host of city and county officials to the Triumph Village Church on Queen Mary Lane to see first hand the blight folks who live in the Queens-Magnolia Terrace community face each day.

  • Monday, August 29 2011 11:49 PM EDT2011-08-30 03:49:29 GMT

    Monday's taking back our neighborhoods report took us to Latimer Avenue. There are two abandoned houses, 2621 and 2623, choked with weeds and boarded up. A woman who lives in a house nearby called 3 On Your Side for help getting something done about the eyesores.

  • Tuesday, August 23 2011 12:11 AM EDT2011-08-23 04:11:10 GMT
    You've owned your home for more than 30 years and now the house next to yours is abandoned and no one is taking care of it. That's the predicament Marjorie Purnell finds herself in regarding 6328 Abraham Lincoln Drive in the Presidential Hills neighborhood.

  • Tuesday, August 16 2011 12:06 AM EDT2011-08-16 04:06:22 GMT
    A south Jackson resident has seen a steady decline in some of the property near her home. Particularly, the abandoned house across from hers on 3134 Revere Street. She called 3 On Your Side for help in taking back her neighborhood.

  • Tuesday, July 26 2011 12:17 AM EDT2011-07-26 04:17:24 GMT
    Paul Berlin made 3 On Your Side aware of the abandoned Creekside Carwash on Terry Road July 7. People had started using the property like a trash dump. It was littered with unsightly debris with free access.

  • Tuesday, July 19 2011 12:50 AM EDT2011-07-19 04:50:34 GMT
    Taking Back Our Neighborhoods was in Yazoo City where residents of an historic neighborhood are at wits end over a couple of run-down houses. They are side-by-side on East Broadway Street and neighbors claim the houses have become magnets for illicit activity.

  • Thursday, July 14 2011 11:13 AM EDT2011-07-14 15:13:13 GMT
    A Jackson businessman called 3 On Your Side to complain about an abandoned car wash across the street from his establishment.  It's located on 3977 Terry Road and it is rapidly transforming into a garbage dump creating problems for his business.

  • Monday, July 4 2011 11:49 PM EDT2011-07-05 03:49:09 GMT
    A young realtor is on a mission to rehab houses in some of Jackson's less desirable neighborhoods, but he says city officials are not making it easy for him. So, he called Three On Your Side for help with one piece of property on North Alabama Avenue.

  • Tuesday, June 28 2011 1:28 PM EDT2011-06-28 17:28:56 GMT

    Imagine the house across the street from yours being gutted by fire but the burned out structure remains unattended to for almost two years.

  • Tuesday, June 28 2011 11:15 AM EDT2011-06-28 15:15:34 GMT
    A neighborhood changes with time, but the changes on Archer Avenue in south Jackson have one longtime resident wondering how the community she called home for so long could become so blighted and nothing.

  • Tuesday, June 14 2011 12:06 AM EDT2011-06-14 04:06:35 GMT
    A south Jackson resident is so frustrated with the condition of the vacant house next to his, he is now considering a move away from the Capital City. Anthony Herring says he reached out to three on your

  • Tuesday, June 7 2011 9:31 PM EDT2011-06-08 01:31:09 GMT
    Is something as simple as a garden a way to take back a neighborhood? A Hinds County man thinks so. Some Jackson senior citizens at the T. L. Love Community Center are discovering there is more to U.S. Victory Gardens than fresh fruits and vegetables. 

  • Tuesday, June 7 2011 9:33 PM EDT2011-06-08 01:33:03 GMT
    We did a follow up to a Taking Back Our Neighborhoods report from May 2. I told you about the problems Hardy Taylor was having with overgrown property across the street from his house in the 2800 block of Queensroad Avenue between Sunset and O'Bannon. He said he didn't know who to call until 3 On Your Side let him know about the Mayor's Action Line. 

  • Tuesday, June 7 2011 9:29 PM EDT2011-06-08 01:29:04 GMT
    More often than not, it's the church that takes a leadership role in addressing some of the problems of a neighborhood. The members of New Testament Missionary Baptist Church have undertaken in the Georgetown Community of Jackson. In fact, the theme of a festival planned for Saturday is "Taking Back Our Community". 

  • Tuesday, June 7 2011 9:27 PM EDT2011-06-08 01:27:49 GMT
    A west Jackson man called 3 On Your Side to complain about an overgrown lot across the street from his property and a vacant house littered with trash and abandoned cars 2 doors down. But the man who is trying to take back his neighborhood admits there was one thing he didn't do before he called 3 On Your Side. 

  • Tuesday, June 7 2011 9:26 PM EDT2011-06-08 01:26:24 GMT
    There is another Taking Back Our Neighborhoods success story to report. It is the property across the street from 5007 Clinton Boulevard in Jackson. in October, it was an overgrown eyesore and for Sonja Renae Riptoe, a health hazard and threat to her safety until she called 3 On Your Side. 

  • Tuesday, April 19 2011 12:01 AM EDT2011-04-19 04:01:44 GMT
    Earlier in April, we told you about a church on Deer Park Street plagued by a row of abandoned duplexes. The owner of that property has promised to clean it up, but he also wants you to know that he is making positive contributions to the community. He says his efforts have already helped take back neighborhoods like Pleasant Oaks Apartments on 1225 Bailey Avenue.

  • Tuesday, June 7 2011 9:25 PM EDT2011-06-08 01:25:23 GMT
    Ridgewood Park Neighborhood's Citizen's Patrol Unit uses a pro-active philosophy to Take Back Their Neighborhood.

  • Tuesday, June 7 2011 9:23 PM EDT2011-06-08 01:23:09 GMT
    Someone can go to church to find peace, among other things, but there's nothing peaceful about the scene across the street from Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church in Jackson.

  • Tuesday, March 29 2011 12:20 AM EDT2011-03-29 04:20:17 GMT
    Too often, the images you see of young African American males are negative. There is a group dedicated to changing those images with a with a mentoring program aimed at showing young men what they can achieve.

  • Monday, March 7 2011 11:50 PM EST2011-03-08 04:50:51 GMT
     A south Jackson man called Three On Your Side for help with a flooding problem in his backyard after he says he wasn't getting help from the City of Jackson. The house is located on 1161 Primrose Street and after our stories aired in January and February, the city took action. But the owner says the action taken by the city, just made things worse.

  • Tuesday, June 7 2011 9:21 PM EDT2011-06-08 01:21:30 GMT
    In an area of Jackson from Woodrow Wilson to Fortification and West Street to Mill Street, better known as midtown Jackson, there is a group of people who are letting their actions speak louder than their words when it comes to taking back their neighborhood.

  • Tuesday, June 7 2011 9:20 PM EDT2011-06-08 01:20:24 GMT
    The Hinds County Sheriff's Department has been conducting a series of sweeps targeting prostitution in and around the Jackson area. Investigators say those sting operations have produced arrests for other, more serious crimes and they point to WLBT's Taking Back Our Neighborhood series of reports as one of the reasons for their success. 

  • Tuesday, June 7 2011 9:18 PM EDT2011-06-08 01:18:56 GMT
    Every time there is a heavy rain, 1161 Primrose Street becomes a virtual lake and the problem stems from a drainage pipe owned by the city. In this Taking Back Our Neighborhoods report, we return to see if anything has been done about it. 

  • Tuesday, February 1 2011 12:54 AM EST2011-02-01 05:54:30 GMT
    Hinds County deputies crack down on solicitation with "Operation Hoppin John". Details in this special Taking Back Our Neighborhoods report.

  • Tuesday, January 25 2011 12:23 AM EST2011-01-25 05:23:32 GMT
    It's hard to keep a business going when it is continually burglarized. That's what a Jackson businessman on Upton Drive says he is experiencing. He says if the city doesn't take back this neighborhood, he and others will leave. 

  • Tuesday, June 7 2011 9:17 PM EDT2011-06-08 01:17:54 GMT
    Young people from around the nation answered that question in Vicksburg by celebrating the King holiday with a day of community service.