Sandy Halliwell, the Clinton Public School District’s finance director, is the Mississippi Association of School Business Officials – 2012 Outstanding Business Officer. She was notified of the award in a surprise presentation at the MASBO conference in Jackson. The district has gotten a clean audit report every year since Halliwell began serving as finance director [...] [...]
J. Tedrick Ratcliff Jr. has been named the executive vice president of the 73-year-old Mississippi Forestry Association. Ratcliff, a native of Brookhaven, currently serves as admissions coordinator/recruiter of the Colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences & Forest Resources at Mississippi State University. When Ratcliff won the Outstanding Youth Forestry Achievement Award given annually by the [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: October 17,2010
Tags: Buddy Edens, Dr. James Henderson, Dr. Larry Oldham, Dr. Rocky Lemus, drought, Gov. Haley Barbour, Mark Silva, Mike Chaney, Mississippi Forestry Commission, Perry Nations, Ricky Davis
Drought turns state into kindling For the second time this year, state officials are in a high state of alert due to a spate of wildfires statewide. Wildfires have already claimed property across the state, but unlike the oil spill, have also already threatened lives. And, the drought conditions fostering the threat could have an [...] [...]
Mississippi recently hosted the regional Southern Groups of State Foresters in Biloxi, and Mississippi’s Urban and Community Forestry successes were awarded by the Mississippi Forestry Commission at the Southern Group of State Forester’s conference. Donna Yowell of Madison, the executive director of the Mississippi Urban Forest Council, was presented the regional award at this event [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 24,2010
Tags: 16th Section land, Forrest County School District, Harold Edwin Simmons, HATTIESBURG, Jas N Smith, Lamar County School District, Mississippi Forestry Commission, Poplarville School District, Rick Norton, Saucier
HATTIESBURG — South Mississippi school districts have not been lax when it comes to keeping tabs on their 16th Section land. “We do monitor it very closely,” said Ben Burnett, Lamar County School District superintendent. “It’s something that we’ve improved upon a good bit, as far as our collections, and it’s an important revenue source [...] [...]
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