by Lynn Lofton Published: August 12,2012
For 73 years the Black and White Department Store has been a mainstay of the downtown area, providing clothing and other goods to generation after generation. Even after most retail moved out of the downtown, the Black and White Store has continued to attract customers with a wide selection of brand name merchandise at good [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: August 9,2012
Tags: abstinence-only education, banking, Black & White, Brent Christensen, credit unions, Google, home buying, Kemper County, Mississippi Development Authority, Mississippi Power Company, nursing faculty shortage, Yazoo City
>> CLASS CRUNCH Experts: Troublesome nursing faculty shortage to get worse— By Clay Chandler Also in this week’s paper: >> KEMPER UPDATE PSC to examine formula rate plans for Entergy, Miss. Power— by Clay Chandler >>TECHNOLOGY Google shares the ‘how-to’s’ of getting your business online— by Ted Carter >>MDA New chief cites potential in energy, medical [...] [...]
by Ted Carter Published: May 17,2012
Tags: Chip Morgan, Delta Council, FEMA, flooding, Mississippi Delta, Phil Bryant, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Yazoo City
The Mississippi Delta may finally be drying out after an historic flood inundated 200 square miles of the region last spring. But the flood left behind a giant-sized worry for the region — the prospect of de-certification of the Yazoo Backwater Levee. Federal officials say the recent flooding showed the 27-mile long flood protection berm [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 24,2012
Tags: Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, republican, Tchula, Yazoo City
JACKSON — Former Tchula Mayor Yvonne R. Brown, the first black Republican female mayor in Mississippi, has died. Officials at Century Funeral Home in Yazoo City confirmed Brown died Monday but had no other details. A funeral service is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday at New Jerusalem Church in Jackson. Brown served as Tchula’s mayor [...] [...]
by Clay Chandler Published: January 9,2011
Tags: Henry Cote, Michael Lampton, Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, Yazoo City
Yazoo City’s businesses did not qualify for low-interest U.S. Small Business Administration disaster loans after late November’s tornado tore through downtown. After a second damage assessment in late December, they still did not qualify. “I’m not surprised,” said Henry Cote, president of the Yazoo County Chamber of Commerce. “I figured that was the way it [...] [...]
by Clay Chandler Published: December 19,2010
Tags: Garry Roark, Henry Cote, Susan Cartwright-Guion, Yazoo City, Year in Review
It seems Mississippians couldn’t catch a break from Mother Nature in 2010 Three days after BP’s oil began spilling into the Gulf of Mexico, Yazoo City was on the business end of one of the worst tornadoes in Mississippi’s modern era. The EF4 twister packed winds of more than 160 miles per hour. It destroyed [...] [...]
by Clay Chandler Published: December 5,2010
Tags: Bill McGraw, Garry Roark, Henry Cote, Joanne Adams, Susan Cartwright-Guion, Yazoo City
For second time this year, tornado damages two major business districts in Yazoo City Susan Cartwright-Guion and a cadre of helpers formed a furniture-hauling assembly line across Main Street in Yazoo City last Tuesday morning. Cartwright-Guion is hoping it wasn’t a funeral procession for her hardware store. For 10 years, Cartwright-Guion has owned and operated [...] [...]
by Clay Chandler Published: December 5,2010
Tags: Frank Webb, Henry Cote, Jimmy Chisolm, John Anderson, Yazoo City
It was a tale of two Main Streets in Yazoo City last Tuesday morning. On the north end of the retail corridor, the clean-up effort forged ahead, as businesses in the first block took a direct strike from the EF2 tornado that twisted through last Monday night. But southward, on the second block, there was [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 8,2010
YAZOO CITY — Bishop Arnold Dwight “Gatemouth” Moore, a former national blues star who left the nightclub stage for the pulpit, is being honored with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail. The marker was unveiled Monday in Yazoo City. Moore, a blues singers of the 1940s, experienced a dramatic conversion when he went onstage [...] [...]
by Wally Northway Published: May 16,2010
Tags: Central Mississippi cattlemen, Tornado recovery, Yazoo City
Central Mississippi cattlemen slammed by April 24 tornado Since the deadly April 24 tornado ripped through Central Mississippi, Tammy Swarek has been on the back roads of Holmes County, offering assistance and comfort to cattlemen who were victims of the storm. Considering her personal losses, Swarek’s efforts are a sublime act of kindness and selflessness. [...] [...]
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