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Designs on a Grammy

Wally Northway — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:37:35 +0000

The proposed Grammy Museum Mississippi, the first-ever Grammy museum outside of Los Angeles, has already garnered headlines this year with a ceremonial $1-million check presentation by Gov. Phil Bryant in January and the signing of a 99-year lease for the land on the campus of Delta State University in February. However, the important work of [...]

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Grammy Museum is expected to bring an economic boom to the Mississippi Delta

Clay Chandler — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:47:23 +0000

The first Grammy Museum outside Los Angeles is coming to Cleveland, and with it comes an economic boom for Cleveland, Bolivar County and the Delta. With a goal of raising $15 million and getting the project completed in the next 24 months, hopes are high. “The fund raising is going quite well,” said Allan Hammons, [...]

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iPad fever hits Mississippi

Laura Smith — Sun, 23 May 2010 06:01:45 +0000

The day Apple’s iPad went on sale in Apple stores nationwide — April 3 —Jimmy Abbott’s was shipped to his home in Indianola. He’d ordered his on March 12, within hours of when Apple began taking pre-orders. As the owner of an iMac, an Apple laptop and an iPhone, he had to [...]

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