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Riding the Tech Wave
Customer service as close as a click
Photography by Matthew Wood
Technology is a part of our daily lives. From iPhones and email to printers and credit card readers, technology is everywhere in business today. “Many small busin...
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Health Care
Providing great care in the shadow of change
Photography by Matthew Wood
The prognosis for health care is inconclusive. With no specific treatment plan to follow, health care providers are left to speculate about the future of the industr...
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Retired banker, Charles “Chuck” Jordan, won handily in the City of Greenville’s Municipal Election on Monday. With all the votes counted and now certified, Jordan had 3,890 votes and opponent Carl McGee had 2,168. McGee is currently serving as Vic...
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Governor-elect Phil Bryant recently announced the theme of his inauguration, which will be held on Tuesday, January 10, 2012. The inaugural theme will be “Rising Together.” In addition, Bryant announced the three Co-Chairs of his inaugural committee...
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Espresso bar, bistro and small-batch bakery can all be found inside the walls of the newest edition to downtown Clarksdale. Yazoo Pass is bringing new food and beverage items to the area as well as a feeling of growth and community.
Owner Meri Tenhet d...
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Delta Regional Medical Center (DRMC) is pleased to announce the addition of Chandler Ewing, CPA, FACHE to its Senior Leadership team as Vice President of Support Services. In his new role, he will be responsible for coordinating and supporting the ancil...
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Hospitals touch the lives of every Mississippian. Our facilities, our equipment, and our staff are dedicated to healing and wellness.
In addition to providing quality, compassionate health care, Mississippi hospitals play a vital role in our state and ...
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Just before the Christmas break, Mississippi Arts Commission director, Malcolm White spoke at Delta State to a group consisting of those in our region who are directly involved or interested in tourism. One of the most intriguing points he made was that...
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Newly appointed board works to bring music museum to Cleveland
Photography by Jordan Thomas
Mississippi just got another step closer to having its own GRAMMY museum. With the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, and the B.B. King Museum in Indianola, a G...
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Providing transportation efficiently and inexpensively
Photography by Matthew Wood
When people think of transportation, three R’s come to mind: roadways, runways and railways. But there is another “R” that most tend to overlook, and it’s one o...
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A distinguished Deltan
Woods Eastland retired as President and CEO of Staplcotn in September of 2010. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Staplcotn Cooperative Association and Staple Cotton Discount Corporation. Staplcotn is America’s old...
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Vicksburg
Staying afloat in turbulent times
Photography by Matthew Wood
Despite the recent flooding, Vicksburg and Warren County seem to have no trouble riding the waves of change welcoming the largest chain manufacturer in North America, chain resta...
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Cover Your Assets
Insurance protects what you hold dear
Photography by Matthew Wood
Tornadoes. Flood. Fire. Wind. Accidents. Theft. “None of us realizes how badly we need insurance until we actually need it,” explains Seldon Van Cleve of The Van ...
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Hu Meena takes the phone service into the future
Photography by Matthew Wood
The year was 1988. Wade and Jimmy Creekmore had been in the telephone business for 29 years, but times were changing. For some time, the duo had been studying a new form of c...
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Great ideas, great service and hard work
Photography by Matthew Wood
They found a problem, figured out a solution and created a successful business. Mix in plenty of hard work and determination and you’ll never know how a simple idea of creating a b...
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Longtime area restaurants offer regional flair
Photography by Matthew Wood
Virginia Woolf once said, “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” If that’s her stance, then Mrs. Woolf must have been a frequent visit...
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A rural health authority and demographer at Mississippi State warns that fewer nursing students returning to less populated parts of the state could have serious consequences on health care.
Ronald Cossman, an associate research professor at the univer...
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Governor Haley Barbour, First Lady Marsha Barbour and others announced the opening of the 1,750 feet-long Sky Lake Boardwalk in West Central Mississippi near Belzoni.
It meanders through, what experts say, are “some of the largest and oldest cypress ...
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The South Delta Planning and Development District, based in Greenville, MIssissippi received a 2011 Innovation Award from the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) Research Foundation for the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Ce...
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Last Christmas, nine charities received a helping hand from Planters Bank’s charity program. The bank is pleased to announce the return of this contest for 2011. Each Planters Bank office will select one charitable organization to receive a “Helping...
