Iris Stacker
Chief Executive Officer of Delta Health System By Becky Gillette • Photography by Johnny Jennings Delta Health System Chief Executive Officer Iris Yeldell Stacker started working at her father’s medical practice when she was only about fifteen. At age sixteen, her father told her she needed “a real job” working at the hospital, which was […]
Sarah Ozbun
Heads Largest Privately-Owned Hotel Group in the State By Becky Gillette • Photography by Johnny Jennings Sarah Ozbun moved to Greenville in June 2012 after taking a reporting job with the Delta Democrat-Times. It was a job she liked, moving up the ladder from city reporter to accent editor before becoming managing editor from 2016 […]
New Production Studios at Delta State University
Digital Media Art Center Debuts to Rave Reviews By Nathan Duff From Delta State Magazine Spring 2023 Edition Delta State’s trailblazing Digital Media Art Center (DMAC) debuted this fall in the Odealier-Morgan Building. A collaboration between the Art Department and the Delta Music Institute, it encompasses 6,000 square feet (about the area of a basketball […]
Hugh Warren IV
By Mark H. Stowers • Photography By Johnny Jennings Hugh Warren IV is making a difference in the Delta. The fourth generation Greenwood native, Cruger Tchula, Pillow Academy and Ole Miss alum has made a career in banking after growing up on the family farm. “I grew up in the Delta and had been working […]
Hoof N’ Paw Pet Services
A Mobile Pet Care Business Serving the Delta By Lyndsi Naron Candice Hopper has recently started a mobile pet care business, Hoof n Paw Pet Services, which serves Cleveland and the surrounding area. She has eighteen years of experience in medicine and has a Veterinary Technology degree. She graduated in 2016 with the degree and […]
Amazon Wind Farm
Major Economic Boost for Tunica County By Becky Gillette The new Amazon wind farm under construction by AES in Tunica County is not only the first utility-scale wind facility to be built in Mississippi, but also the first in the region that includes Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina and Arkansas. Charles Finkley, […]
Hopson Hospitality
Longtime Clarksdale Entity Under New Ownership By Catherine Kirk When Clarksdale natives Tate and Chelsea Antici graduated from college and moved to Nashville, Tennessee, it wasn’t in their plans to return to the Mississippi Delta. But after twelve years of living in the Music City, the Hopson Commissary went up for sale, and it was […]
Justin Burch
By Mark H. Stowers South Mississippi native Justin Burch was named the Executive Director of the Washington County Economic Alliance this past May. The nationally known community and economic developer previously worked for the Rural Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC) across fifty states and two U.S. territories. Prior to that he was the program director […]
Carolyn McAdams
Leading Greenwood to Be the Best Possible By Becky Gillette • Photography by Johnny Jennings Small town politics anywhere in the country can be challenging, and Greenwood is no exception. However, Greenwood Mayor Carolyn McAdams has worked hard to avoid partisanship and encourage cooperation to meet Greenwood’s goals that has resulted in many notable achievements […]
Onward and Upward
By Brad White Your Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) starts the new state fiscal year strong thanks to the hard work of the men and women who make up the MDOT family, as well as the significant investments from both the United States Congress and the Mississippi Legislature. Signed into law by Governor Tate […]