Mississippi Business Journal » Mississippi state fair http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:16:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Mississippi State Fair 2011 http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/06/mississippi-state-fair-2011/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mississippi-state-fair-2011 http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/06/mississippi-state-fair-2011/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:11:03 +0000 Stephen McDill http://msbusiness.com/?p=46834 JACKSON- Billy Orr of the Mississippi State Fair Commission discusses running a fair during a recession, the jobs it creates and how money is going toward updating the Mississippi Coliseum.

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/10/06/mississippi-state-fair-2011/feed/ 0 2010 Miss. state fair sets record http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/10/19/2010-miss-state-fair-sets-record/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2010-miss-state-fair-sets-record http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/10/19/2010-miss-state-fair-sets-record/#comments Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:32:25 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=32158 JACKSON — The 2010 Mississippi State Fair set an attendance record of 673,098, about 10,000 more than the former record set in 2005. The fair ended Sunday. Fair director Billy Orr tells The Clarion-Ledger that while numbers aren’t final, ticket sales netted around $3 million. Orr says good weather contributed to the attendance. Rain slowed [...]

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