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  • Social media marketing class at ICC-Tupelo
    A social media marketing class, presented by The Mabus Agency, is available at Itawamba Community College’s Tupelo campus, starting Sept. 13. The six-week class will discuss utilizing Twi...
  • Cheapest gas: Ripley 9/3
    The cheapest gas in NEMS today is in Ripley for $2.32 for a gallon of regular, according to our Daily Journal survey of gas stations. Plus, we have...
  • More than 10,000 Toyota application received
    The Mississippi Department of Employment Security says more than 10,000 applications have been received for those production and skilled maintenance positions at Toyota Mississippi. Here's the ...
  • MDA awards energy grants to local groups
    We previously told you about two of these winners (American and Lane). Here are the rest. Excerpts of a press release from the Mississippi Development Authority: ...
  • Fairpark agency talks about future of district
    We're live at the monthly meeting of the Tupelo Redevelopment Agency. The agency is the city-created board charged with overseeing the development of the Fairpark District in downtown Tupelo. ...
  • UM & MSU games to be shown live in Fairpark
    We're live at a press conference in Fairpark where officials are gathered to announce an event called Pigskins in the Park . Play-by-play details: John Oxford...
  • Magazine names Tupelo's top young professionals
    Many of our tweeps, friends and Biz Buzz interviewees on this list. Congrats! Excerpts of a press release from Legend Publishing, which publishes Greater Tupelo Magazine: ...
  • VH1 to feature Mississippi Gulf Coast
    Pretty cool. Excerpts of a press release from the Mississippi Development Authority: Jackson, Mississippi (September 1, 2010) – The Mississippi Development Authority (MDA) Tourism Divisio...
  • Drive-by: New downtown sign for highway 9/1
    As we tweeted about earlier, MDOT today installed a new exit sign on Highway 45 South for the Main Street exit. It now directs people to Main Street...
  • Toyota applications still rolling in
    Since Toyota began accepting applications last week, it's received nearly 10,000 from across the country. As of this morning, 9,802 had been received. Our friends at...

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  • Tallahatchie RiverFest shirts available
    Tallahatchie RiverFest T-Shirts are officially on sale in the UCDA Office at 135 East Bankhead Street.

    Prices are $13 Small through X-Large
    $14 XX Large
    $15 XXX Large

    The shirts are black this year...
  • Patriot Day Service planned for 9/11
    In Memory of the Innocent Victims Who Died
    September 11, 2001


    Damon Cooke, The American Legion Potter-Henry-Lowrey Post 72 Commander, will lead the community-wide remembrance service commemorating the September 11, 2001...
  • New Albany Fire/Rescue qualifies for world challenge
    Team New Albany Combat Challenge Team traveled to Lexington, Ky. with one goal in mind. That one goal was to run the challenge course in under two minutes.

    Goal reached!...
  • Friday last day to qualify for county school board race
    As the November general election approaches, there will be two local positions on the ballot for some voters in the county.

    Qualifying begins Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010 for Union County...
  • NEMCC fall ’10 enrollment total sets new school record
    Tough economic times such as these often produce a spike in enrollment at institutions of high learning nationwide. At Northeast Mississippi Community College enrollment records have been set and broken...

MS Business Journal

  • NOAA reopens federal waters to fishing
    GULF OF MEXICO — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has reopened federal waters adjacent to Mississippi waters to commercial and recreational fishing previously closed in response to the...
  • BP’s oil spill bill reaches $8B
    LONDON — BP says it has so far spent $8 billion responding to the disastrous oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. The company said today that the total included...
  • U.S. unemployment rate creeps toward 10 percent
    WASHINGTON — Private employers hired more workers over the past three month than first thought, lifting hopes for the weak economy ahead of the Labor Day weekend. But the unemployment...
  • Ex-workers claim tainted egg warnings were ignored
    DES MOINES, Iowa — U.S. Agriculture Department employees worked full-time at two Iowa egg farms at the center of a salmonella outbreak and massive recall, but two former workers said...
  • Farmers: Weather perfect for harvesting
    ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service in Mississippi, there were 6.0 days suitable for fieldwork for the week ending Aug. 29. Last week weather conditions were favorable...


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