JORDAN NOVET
STARKVILLE — When Robbie Ward came back here six years ago, he thought the inability to buy alcohol on Sundays made the city look backward.
Growing up, he’d lived in Meridian, Starkville, Yazoo City, Greenville and Hattiesburg.
After graduating from the University of Southern Mississippi in 2003, he returned to Starkville to pursue a career in newspaper reporting in a place he still considers home. He worked in the then newly established Starkville bureau of the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal.
Having lived in Mississippi cities where people had the opportunity to buy alcohol on Sundays, he “realized right away” Starkville did not permit such behavior.
He sat at a booth in Dave’s Dark Horse Tavern one night last week nursing a cup of iced water, recalling those days and explaining his feelings on the subject and his desire for a change in the policy.
“It’s time to make this an issue,” he said. “It’s the issue for Starkville right now.”
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I agree that it’s pretty backwards thinking to not allow alcohol sales on Sunday. If you can buy it every other day of the week, why not Sunday? It’s almost as bad as not allowing cold beer to be sold.