From the daily archives: Thursday, December 8, 2011
After six years of working, waiting and planning, there was a ground breaking on Sunday afternoon, December 4, 2011 for the Black Belt Family Farm Fruit and Vegetable Marketing and Innovation Center on Highway 80, seven miles west of Selma. The Marketing and Innovation Center was conceived and developed as a project of [...]
In a release, the Eutaw Area Chamber of Commercee extended thanks to the participants of the store front competition and the float competition in the annual Christmas Parade. This year was exceptional as everyone made these events unforgettable. The Christmas Parade theme this year was Christmas Through the Eyes of a Child” and [...]
The Greene/Sumter USDA Farm Service Agency now has a new director effective 12/5/2011. Former director Mary McInnis retired as of Friday, December 2. The new director, Alex Crawford, III has been with USDA for six years. He is a native of Greene County, AL and graduated from Paramount High School in 1997. He [...]
On Thursday, December 1, 2011, Greenetrack CEO Luther “Nat” Winn, surrounded by employees, presented the monthly bingo distributions to Greene County Sheriff Jonathan Benison. The November distributions from Greenetrack Bingo awarded $10,441.67 to the Greene County Sheriff’s Department; $28,341.67 to the Greene County Commission; $5,966.67 to the City of Eutaw; $2,983.33 to the [...]
Special to the NNPA from the Global Information Network Nov. 29 (GIN) – Nestlé, the world’s largest food company, has announced it will investigate charges of using child labor on the farms that supply it with the cocoa that ends up in millions of chocolate bars. Beginning in January, the [...]
ATLANTA, GEORGIA— November 4, 2011– The National Minority Supplier Development Council, Inc.®, (NMSDC®) presented Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. (TEMA) with the prestigious “Corporation of the Year” award at a black-tie awards banquet to cap its four-day conference and business opportunity fair in Atlanta, Georgia. NMSDC’s Corporation of the Year [...]
TALLAHASSEE, FL — The fired director of Florida A&M’s famed “Marching 100” band said he repeatedly warned university leaders over two decades about the dangers of hazing and that he’s been made the scapegoat for a band member’s death in which the practice is suspected. Julian White, 71, said he suspended 26 [...]
Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper With his wife Gloria by his side, Herman Cain, the Black Republican presidential candidate who was accused of having a 13-year extramarital affair, announced that he will drop out of the race while fiercely denying the allegations against him. “With a lot of prayer and soul searching, [...]
Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Former President George W. Bush began a tour of Africa during the week of Nov. 28 and, according to Amnesty International, he needs to see the inside of a jail cell while he’s there. The human rights group is calling for the arrest of Bush for authorizing [...]
By Les Christie, CNN Money 6 December 2011: In more than two dozens cities across the nation Tuesday, an offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement took on the housing crisis by re-occupying foreclosed homes, disrupting bank auctions and blocking evictions.Occupy Our Homes said it’s embarking on a “national day of [...]
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