VCVB wants to promote your business
The Vicksburg Convention & Visitors Bureau wants to promote your business. Executive Director Laura Beth Strickland sent the following email looking for videos and descriptions of local businesses to include in a longer video promoting Vicksburg. We are preparing for National Travel & Tourism Week and need your help. Please send me a video to […]
COVID-19 response: How Ergon Marine is protecting its team and customers
Story by Frank McCormack, The Waterways Journal Weekly Across the maritime industry, every company, agency, port or terminal has been impacted by efforts to “flatten the curve” of infections of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Shoreside staff working from home, crews transported by road rather than air and stepped-up disinfecting aboard vessels […]
Three Mississippi HBCUs win $50,000 grants from Home Depot
Three Mississippi colleges have won $50,000 each in Home Depot’s Retool Your School grant program. Jackson State University and Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss., and Coahoma Community College in Clarksdale, Miss., were each selected by their community’s votes. In all, 10 Historically Black Colleges and Universities were selected for the grants, and millions of the […]
XFL declares bankruptcy and puts its assets up for sale
After being cut short in its inaugural season, the XFL has suspended its operations and has no plans to return. Monday, the XFL declared bankruptcy, and subsequently has offered its brand for sale along with merchandise and equipment from its eight teams. The league held a conference call earlier this month to inform the players […]
Owner of Bovina Grocery provides a statement regarding employee death
Allen Kitchens, owner of Bovina Grocery, has emailed the following statement in regards to an employee who recently died: “We were so saddened to learn of the loss of a valuable friend and colleague, and our thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends during this difficult time. We immediately contacted the health department […]
Vicksburg family making all natural hand sanitizer
With big-name hand sanitizers disappearing from the shelves of groceries and pharmacies faster than workers can restock, one Vicksburg family decided to make their own. Corey and Joycelyn Nettle along with their three children, Cierra, 13, Caiya, 11, and Corey Jr., 7, have created C3 Natural Germ Killer and Moisturizer. “With everything going on with […]
Vicksburg Municipal Airport among 73 Mississippi airports to receive federal grants
Vicksburg Municipal Airport is among 73 facilities in Mississippi to receive federal grants to offset economic loses due to the COVID-19 public health emergency. Mississippi’s U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., today announced the award of $34,855,031 in grants to Mississippi airfields. Vicksburg Municipal will receive $30,000. The Federal Aviation Administration awards, […]
Entergy launches $385,000 relief fund for Mississippi non-profits
From Entergy Mississippi: Fifteen nonprofit groups in Entergy Mississippi’s service area will share more than $385,000 from the company’s newly-created Mississippi Relief Fund. The fund will target grants to organizations that provide services to families and individuals that have been hit hard financially by the COVID-19 pandemic and do not have resources for basic needs. […]
Domino’s giving away 10 million slices of pizza in communities across the nation
From Domino’s Pizza: Domino’s Pizza, Inc. (NYSE: DPZ) and its nationwide system of franchisees are banding together during this unprecedented crisis to do something we already do well every day – feeding people pizza. Domino’s company-owned and franchised stores throughout the U.S. will donate roughly 10 million slices of pizza within their local communities, starting […]
Nissan Canton plant lays off 4,000 workers to slow coronavirus spread
Story by Anna Wolfe, Mississippi Today Since March 20, when Nissan ceased production in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the company said it continued paying the employees it sent home their full salary. This week, Nissan temporarily laid off all employees at its Canton plant, about 4,000, who have stopped working during the […]