by Associated Press Published: January 18,2012
Tags: alcohol, beer, elections, hospitality, law, liquor, municipal government, restaurants, state government, tourism, tourists, visitors, voters, votes, Voting
CORINTH — The City of Corinth will ask the Legislature to approve a city-only vote on the sale of alcoholic beverages.
The Daily Corinthian reports the board of aldermen voted 5-1 yesterday to present a resolution to lawmakers now meeting in Jackson.
But opponents argued the city is unfairly cutting Alcorn County residents out of the process.
State [...] [...]
KILN — A microbrewery that started with a Christmas homebrew kit and saw its first year swamped by Hurricane Katrina is getting a $740,000 interest-free expansion loan that will let it quintuple production over the next four years.
It’s part of Mark and Leslie Hendersons’ $3-million plan to boost brewing capacity at Lazy Magnolia Brewing Co. [...] [...]
OXFORD — The state has approved limited liquor sales in Oxford on Sundays, beginning with Mother’s Day.
Mayor Pat Patterson tells the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal that the Mississippi Department of Revenue has approved restaurant sales of wine and liquor on Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, the Sundays nearest University of Mississippi football games and, when they [...] [...]
ROBINSONVILLE — Horseshoe Casino is liable for damages under the state’s “dram shop” law related to a fatal accident in Tunica County in 2002, the Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled.
However, the Supreme Court yesterday found the casino liable only 50 percent of the $1.1 million awarded by a Tunica County jury in 2010.
Three people died [...] [...]
PRENTISS COUNTY — Prentiss County voters soundly rejected an effort to legalize alcohol sales in the county with about 63 percent of voters against coming out from under Mississippi dry laws.
Official vote totals showed 2,167 voters supported the referendum while 3,657 voted against it in Tuesday’s special election.
Of the county’s more than 17,000 voters, The [...] [...]
BOONEVILLE — Voters in Booneville, which bills itself as the City of Hospitality, will decide tomorrow whether to welcome sales of beer and light wine.
The proposed ordinance defines light wine as less than 5 percent alcohol — about the usual amount for beer and for wine coolers.
Gary Walker’s group “Citizens for New Business and Growth” [...] [...]
BOONEVILLE — Absentee balloting is underway in Booneville as the city moves closer to a vote on the sale of alcohol.
Voters will head to the polls on Aug. 17 to decide whether or not the sale, distribution and possession of beer and light wines of less than 5 percent alcohol content by weight will be [...] [...]
OXFORD — Oxford aldermen will consider a proposal from local businesses to allow Sunday liquor sales for Father’s Day, Fourth of July and home football game weekends.
Jerry Jordan, president of the Oxford Restaurant Association, tells the Oxford Eagle that something needs to be done to avoid the difficulties with festivals and holidays that fall on [...] [...]
GLUCKSTADT — The roughly 4,000-square-foot warehouse is largely empty now, with a few boxes of T-shirts and memorabilia sitting on the floor.
Within weeks the building will be transformed with the hum of mixers and the clanking of vodka bottles being put into cases into Mississippi’s first distilled spirits production facility.
Bottletree Bottling Co. soon will produce [...] [...]
NEW ALBANY — The City of New Albany has decided not to allow the sale of single packaged beer or light wine, or to permit sales at city-sponsored events.
The single sale restriction does not apply to restaurants or similar on-premises sale and consumption.
The board of aldermen’s March 2 decision slightly tightens the city’s new beer [...] [...]
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