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Council approves nearly $1.1M repaving project for North State Street (Source: WLBT) By Anthony Warren | February 2, 2021 at 11:56 AM CST - Updated February 2 at 11:56 AM JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Another section of North State Street will soon be repaved. On Tuesday, the Jackson City Council approved bringing on W.E. Blain and Sons, Inc., to mill and overlay a section of the street running from Sheppard Road to Briarwood Drive. The contract is for just under $1.1 million. Once the project...

Adobe Stock The EDA Regional office of Atlanta awarded an Opportunity Zone grant to Walterboro on Apr. 2, 2020 with a total project amount of $19,590,000 from the US Economic Development Administration. The U.S. Economic Development Administration offered the following description of this project: "This EDA investment funds renovations of the citys wastewater treatment plant by supporting the expansion of infrastructure for an employer in Walterboro County, South Carolina, a designated Opportu...

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times Few know Birmingham—its streets, its schools, its churches—as well as Cornell Wesley, the recently named director of the city’s Department of Innovation and Economic Opportunity (IEO). Wesley, the youngest of three children, grew up in the North Titusville community and attended Glen Iris Elementary School — where he was part of the first class to be bused in — Center Street Middle School, and A. H. Parker High School. As a teen he was called to pr...

TUPELO  • Signify – still known by many locally as Day-Brite – will shutter its lighting manufacturing facility on Green Street by December, eliminating approximately 135 local jobs. In a letter sent to Tupelo Mayor Jason Shelton and other officials last week, the company said all manufacturing positions in Tupelo will be eliminated. Job cuts are expected to begin in April and be completed by December. Some other jobs associated with sales, marketing, IT and research and de...

1 of 2 Signify announced Tuesday in a letter to Tupelo officials it plans to shutter its lighting manufacturing facility on Green Street by December, eliminating approximately 135 local jobs. Originally named — and often still referred to — as Day-Brite, the company was one of the first major manufacturing facilities to locate in Tupelo after World War II, opening in 1947. Adam Robison | BUY AT PHOTOS.DJOURNAL.COM

TUPELO • Even though Abby Christian is not technically employed by the city of Tupelo, her fingerprints are almost certain to be all over the All-America City within the next year. Christian, a 37-year-old native of Tupelo, is providing grant writing and administration services for Tupelo through a contract between the city and Three Rivers Planning & Development District, an economic and workforce development agency in Northeast Mississippi, where she is actually employed. Christian’...

The idea of locating a life sciences hub on the Downtown San Diego waterfront may feel sudden and unexpected to some. It requires thinking outside the box, but that is when discoveries are made.

Kenneth Franks passed away 2021-01-07 in Monterey, Kentucky. This is the full obituary story where you can express condolences and share memories. Services by McDonald & New Funeral Homes.

Southwest Colorado economic outlook: COVID-19 recovery will take years Durango, Colorado Currently Mon 1% chance of precipitation 5% chance of precipitation 17% chance of precipitation Livable wages continue to be a thorn for the region By Patrick Armijo Education, business & real estate reporter Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021 7:20 PM Updated: Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021 11:32 PM Tourism was down 52% in 2020 from 2019 in Colorado, according to an...

More than mountains Currently Sun Sunday, Jan. 3, 2021 5:03 AM In this photo from October 2018, Daudi Barnes, founder and president of Agile Space Industries, describes a lunar lander prototype thruster developed at his business near Durango-La Plata County Airport. Jerry McBride/Durango Herald file SCAPE Outreach Coordinator Brittany Cupp appears in a screenshot from the Center on Rural Innovation’s video “The Rural Edge: Durango, Colorado.” Cour...