Business News for the Mississippi Delta

Much Needed Repairs

By Dick Hall By the time this information is read, the Mississippi Legislature may have returned to attempt to complete their 2017 annual session—hopefully so.  As you know, when they last left town, neither the Mississippi Department of Transportation nor the Office of Attorney General were funded for fiscal year 2018, which begins July 1, […]

Henk van Riessen

Delta Precision Technologies, LLC By Susan Montgomery Henk van Riessen’s one of those lucky people who grew up understanding what his vocational field would be. “At age 12, I already knew I would go to agriculture school ,” said van Riessen. And he did. That let him in 1993 he to Auburn University in Alabama, […]

Dr. LouAnn Woodward

Leads Mississippi to better health By Becky Gillette Dr. LouAnn Woodward, 53, grew up on a farm in Carroll County south of Grenada. She and her brother Holland were raised in the same home where their father, Bruce Heath—the youngest of six children–grew up. Her paternal grandmother, known as Miss Onyx, lived with them. Her […]