In 1996, there was a big unveiling ceremony for the new signage, letting everyone know it was now called the “G. V. Sonny Montgomery V.A. Medical Center.”
He became Mississippi’s first Republican governor since 1876, boosting a party that had been struggling for years to establish a real presence in the Magnolia State.
The flooding in 1983 was devastating for many in Central Mississippi. WLBT went back into the archives to show you a look at what the conditions were like the last time the Pearl River reached such heights.
