by MBJ Staff Published: October 16,2012
Tags: beach, closure, ecology, ecosystem, environment, pollution, public health, sewage, sewer, state agency, wastewater, wildlife
BAY ST. LOUIS — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) has lifted a temporary water contact advisory issued Sept. 24 for Joe’s Bayou near Felicity Street in Bay St. Louis. The advisory was issued due to a sewer spill from a malfunctioning pump station. The advisory covered Joe’s Bayou and adjacent waters in the [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 9,2012
Tags: bacteria, beach, closure, diisease, disaster, environment, flood, flooding, health, hurricane, ill, illness, natural disaster, outdoors, public health, rain, sand, sick, sickness, state agency, storm, storm surge, tourism, tourist, tropical, vacation, visitor, wind
LONG BEACH — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, has lifted a beach closure issued August 31 after Hurricane Isaac made landfall. Reopened is Station 7A in Long Beach, which extends from Oak Gardens on the west to Girard on the east. Water samples show the area has attained [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: October 5,2012
Tags: beach, closure, disaster, disaster recovery, environment, flood, flooding, hurricane, public health, rain, state agency, storm, storm surge, tornado, tropical, Weather, wind
HARRISON COUNTY — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, has lifted beach closures issued Aug. 31 in the aftermath of Hurricane Isaac. The closures were lifted for the following monitoring stations in Harrison County: • Station 9 — Gulfport Harbor Beach near Pratt Avenue; from 20th Avenue east to [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 12,2012
Tags: apparel, Closing, closure, clothes, contract, defense, employee, job, layoff, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, military, plant, sew, sewing, unemployment, work, worker
COLUMBUS — An apparel company that’s losing a military contract to the federal prison system says it plans to lay off 50 workers in Alabama and Mississippi rather than idling two plants. American Power Source Inc. says the layoffs in Fayette, Ala., and Columbus are due to the government’s decision to shift an Air Force [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 12,2012
Tags: budget, civil rights, close, closure, courthouse, decision, federal government, law, ruling, trial
MERIDIAN — The federal judiciary says it will close the courthouse in Meridian where trials were held for Ku Klux Klansmen on charges in the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers and where James H. Meredith filed his lawsuit in 1961 to integrate the University of Mississippi. The Meridian building is among six courthouses [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 11,2012
Tags: banking, bankrupt, city, close, closure, county, finance, loan, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, municipality, planning district, plant, tax
BATESVILLE — A Batesville company that made framed pictures has closed as government entities and a bank fight over the bankrupt firm’s assets. James Curcio, executive director of the North Delta Planning and Development District, says Art Horizons Inc. closed in late August. According to a filing with the Mississippi Department of Employment Security, Art [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 6,2012
Tags: closure, ecosystem, environment, fish, fishing, industriasl, industry, kill, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, pollution, state agency, swimming, wildlife
JACKSON COUNTY — State agencies say it is once again okay to fish and swim in Bayou Casotte and the adjacent waters of the Mississippi Sound. The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality and the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources closed the Jackson County area to fishing and water contact last Sunday, after investigating a fish [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: August 30,2012
Tags: closed, closure, federal; govewrnment, hurricane, park, storm, transportation, travel, tree, tropical
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Utility companies say they are working to restore power to nearly 89,000 customers in south and central Mississippi. Many utility crews were called in Wednesday night after winds from Isaac got too strong. Crews were back out early yesterday. Entergy officials say there were 38,250 customers without power and nearly 700,000 outages [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: July 25,2012
Tags: angling, beach, closure, contamination, environment, fishing, health, outdoors, pollution, public health, recreation, sewage, state agency, swim, swimmer, swimming, tourism, tourist, vacation, vacationing, visitor
BILOXI — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), through its Beach Monitoring Program, has lifted beach closure issued July 19 for Station 12A. The station is located on Biloxi West Central Beach near Rodenburg Avenue. The closure was from Travia Street east to Iberville Drive. Water samples show the area has attained acceptable bacteria [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: March 14,2012
Tags: closure, cultural tourism, federal government, Heritage, history, infrastructure, tourism, tourists, traffic, travel, visitors
CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI — An eight-mile section of the Natchez Trace could be closed for a year. WAPT-TV reports a major safety hazard will lead to the closure near milepost 94.8 between Ridgeland and Clinton. The National Park Service says the closure will begin today between Interstate 55 and U.S 49. Engineers say there’s the potential [...] [...]
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