by MBJ Staff Published: February 10,2012
Tags: air travel, airports, Conventions, county government, economic development, grant, grants, meetings, tourism, tourists, transportation, travel, visitors
WIGGINS — The Stone County Economic Development Partnership (EDP) board of directors has agreed to provide the local match dollars for a federal/state grant to improve the Dean Griffin Memorial Airport.
The airport, located in Wiggins, serves the entire Stone County area. The facility, jointly owned by the city of Wiggins and Stone County, is open [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: January 9,2012
Tags: federal government, grants, homeowners, homes, houses, housing, municipal government, real estate, reimbursement, residences, residential real estate, residents
JACKSON — Mississippi’s capital city may have to reimburse more than $300,000 to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development over lax oversight that led to the misuse of more than $1 million in federal grants over several years.
The reimbursement may be necessary for Jackson to get $1.15 million in housing funding restored.
The Clarion-Ledger [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: December 8,2011
Tags: agriculture, commodities, farmers, farmers markets, farms, fuits, gorcers, grant, grants, grocery stores, municipal government, produce, retail, vegetables
OXFORD — The city of Oxford will take a second look at locating at farmers’ market next to the Park Commission’s Community Garden.
The Oxford Eagle reports the board of aldermen agreed this week to put the new farmers’ market project on hold until at least next spring.
A grant for $61,258 was awarded to Oxford from [...] [...]
GULFPORT — The federal government is now demanding that Gulfport state port officials start to track the number and type of jobs a $621 million port expansion will create.
The port is expected to receive a total of $621 million in Community Development Block Grant funds for an 84-acre restoration and elevation of the West Pier [...] [...]
PASCAGOULA — VT Halter Marine is inching closer to its goal of diversification, as it intends to pursue a $20-million grant from the Mississippi Development Authority.
Bill Skinner, VT’s CEO, tells The Mississippi Press he intends to add $12 million in company funds to “get the seed money” ready for a major expansion.
The money would come [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: November 6,2011
Tags: aerospace, contracts, courts, defense, education, federal contracts, federal government, federal grants, grant, grants, higher education, sentencing, wire fraud
GULFPORT — A researcher at the University of California at Los Angeles has been sentenced in Gulfport to probation and restitution in a wire-fraud case.
Prosecutors said Michael D. Pottenger of Santa Monica, Calif., accepted a grant of nearly $100,000 that he wasn’t eligible to receive.
The Sun Herald reports Pottenger received three years’ probation and was [...] [...]
JACKSON — Parents would receive matching funds to send their children to better preschools.
Preschool teachers would receive financial incentives to enhance their education.
Those are just two elements of a proposal to improve early child education in the state if Mississippi is awarded up to $50 million in the federal Race to the Top early learning [...] [...]
OXFORD — The Oxford Emergency Management Agency has been awarded a $750,000 grant from FEMA to build a new Emergency Operations Center in Oxford. The project is estimated to take about 18 months to complete and should be finished in the summer of 2013.
The grant was awarded through a competitive process based on how well [...] [...]
PEARL — The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency is urging disaster victims to use caution if contacted by the National Storm Shelter Registry with offers of grant funds available to help fund the installation of a safe room.
MEMA is not affiliated with this program or similar non-FEMA safe room grant programs.
MEMA offered disaster survivors in certain [...] [...]
PASCAGOULA — Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd says a $358,485 federal port security grant will provide new training and new equipment to monitor and protect critical business near the Pascagoula port.
Byrd tells The Mississippi Press that he applied for the grant because deputies patrol the port, Chevron, Mississippi Phosphate and Ingalls Shipyard.
The grant is part [...] [...]
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