JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – A major thoroughfare in the capital city will soon be named after the late Mayor Frank Melton.
On Tuesday, the Jackson City Council approved renaming Pearl Street and the Pearl Street bridge from I-55 to North State Street after the former city leader, former Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics director, and former chairman and CEO of WLBT.
“This man truly loved this city. You have to feel something in your heart for his wife and his children,” Ward Three Councilman Kenneth Stokes said. “It’s the right thing to do.”…