LOWNDES COUNTY/CLAY COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) – Drivers traveling Highway 82 East between Starkville and Columbus this weekend will need to pack their patience and pay attention.

With holiday shopping and events, there will be a lot of people on the roads, and there will be a major construction project forcing a shutdown along 82 and a detour.

This shutdown runs from 10 pm tonight until 5 am on Monday, December 08.

Lowndes County Sheriff Eddie Hawkins is encouraging drivers who are traveling 82 eastbound into Columbus to use caution and patience.

“This is one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year here in Columbus. So the traffic’s already heavy on Highway 45, and diverting all this traffic off of 82 and placing that traffic onto 45 is going to bring that much more traffic to the area

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