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Group recognizes Hickson

MBJ Staff — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 23:11:27 +0000

The Mississippi Hospital Association’s Society for Health Care Marketing and Public Relations recently named Kate Hickson, manager of customer and physician relations at Baptist DeSoto, as Junior Professional of the Year for 2012. Hickson began her career with Baptist DeSoto five years ago where she served as physician liaison for recruitment and development. Since that [...]

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UKC Winter Classic poised to pump $2M into Batesville

Clay Chandler — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 06:01:04 +0000

For the past 25 years, the United Kennel Club has held its Winter Classic raccoon hunt in Albany, Ga. That changes in January, when Batesville will host the event. An animal generally considered a nuisance could generate a lot of revenue for Batesville and Panola County. An analysis of the event’s finances performed two years [...]

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Read August 27 issue of the MBJ

MBJ Staff — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:29:37 +0000

>> JOURNAL INC. BUYS MBJ Mississippi’s Journal Inc. buys MBJ Also in this week’s paper: >> SPORTS Batesville trees a big one— by Clay Chandler >>RESHORING ‘Total cost’ calculations tilting manufacturing equation in favor of U.S.— by Ted Carter >>TRANSPORTATION Rail Authority forges ahead in wake of grant rejection— by Clay Chandler >> ROSS REILY Ownership transition [...]

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Biokua joins CMMC

MBJ Staff — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 06:01:36 +0000

Wanda Mangum Biokua has joined Central Mississippi Medical Center as director of imaging services. Biokua has more than 20 years of healthcare experience, most specifically in the area of strategic planning, business development and implementing new programs in imaging services. Prior to joining CMMC, she was employed in a similar position at Nyack Hospital in [...]

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Harvesting high-tech ‘Garden’

Ross Reily — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 06:01:04 +0000

>> Technology and business park carries promise of transforming knowledge to jobs for Mississippi HATTIESBURG – Six-hundred acres that once made up the University Golf Course represent an ambitious plan to commercialize University of Southern Mississippi scientific and engineering research. The goal: Jobs and paychecks for everyday Mississippians. It all starts on the ground floor, [...]

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MBJ SMALL BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: The Candle and Gift Shoppe

Laura Smith — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 06:00:04 +0000

Hobby turns into a success story Goodnight says six days a week and sometimes on Sundays is not too much for something you love Having sold the family furniture business in 1997 after 23 years in operation, Linda Goodnight needed a hobby. Her brother and his wife bought her a candle-making kit from a hobby [...]

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Baptist Home Care earns accreditation

MBJ Newswires — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:42:47 +0000

BATESVILLE — Baptist Home Care and Hospice-North Mississippi recently became Joint Commission accredited as a freestanding home care and hospice agency. The Joint Commission offered no recommendations for changes to be made to the facility’s program, which is a rare result, according to Baptist Home Care and Hospice director Lee Gentry. The process the agency [...]

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GE, Southern Miss to collaborate

MBJ Newswires — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:14:52 +0000

BATESVILLE AND HATTIESBURG — Gov. Haley Barbour and officials from GE Aviation have announced a unique research collaboration with the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) for technology and advanced material development in the company’s Composites Operation in Batesville. GE’s partnership with the USM School of Polymers and High Performance Materials is focused on the development [...]

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