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Southern Grill closes
Following the breakfast crowd shuffled from the building Saturday morning the front doors of the Southern Grill were locked for the last time. After 25 years of serving the people of Cleveland and ...
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Walker named customer contact center manager
C Spire Wireless, the only wireless provider to offer personalized services, has named Danny Walker as Customer Contact Center manager. In his new position, Walker will be responsible for managing...
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C Spire Wireless network technician Joe Bounds runs computer diagnostics on a controller card at a company cell site in northeast Jackson this week that will help power 4G LTE services this fall.
C Spire launches 4G LTE in 20 markets
C Spire Wireless, the only U.S. provider that offers a suite of personalized wireless services, released details today on its plans to introduce 4G LTE (Fourth Generation Long Term Evolution) high-...
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Andy Lee named senior vice president at Guaranty Bank
Huey Townsend, chairman of the board at Guaranty Bank & Trust Company, had announced that veteran banker Andy Lee has been promoted to senior vice president at the bank’s Cleveland office. A native...
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Dave Ramsey says ...
Dear Dave, We keep getting offers in the mail from a law firm that offers to protest the assessed value of our home for property tax purposes. They say that we’ll pay them nothing if they can’t sav...
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Planters Bank reports promotions
Planters Bank is pleased to announce the promotion of three employees. Jamie Ray has been promoted to Assistant Vice President in the Cleveland office. LeAnn Cummins has been promoted to Compliance...
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Entergy rates expected to drop
Customers of Entergy Mississippi, Inc., who already pay among the lowest rates in the nation, will likely see their rates drop further in April, May and June. The company recently submitted its ro...
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Sears receives award
Doc and DD Hardy, owners of Sears of Greenville and Cleveland, are pleased to announce that Sears of Greenville has joined the Cleveland Sears store as a 2012 National Premiere Dealer. The Premiere...
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Dave Ramsey says...
Dear Dave, My husband and I have been through Financial Peace University. I’ve always been the numbers nerd, although he’s catching on and doing pretty well. He has a motorcycle he bought a few yea...
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Boyle entries place in state corn yield contest
Two Boyle-area entries placed in the 2011 National Corn Growers’ Association’s (NCGA) Corn Yield Contest in Mississippi. Bern Prewitt Farms of Boyle won first place in the Irrigated division with P...
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Dave Ramsey says ...
Dear Dave, My boyfriend has a lot of debt. The other day a creditor called, and he wouldn’t answer the phone. Then, he told me it would be easier for him to pay off his debts if we were married bec...
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Native named Promising Black Engineer
“Whether Onekki Christian is interfacing with Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, the Naval Surface Warfare Center, or her coworkers in Raytheon’s Florida Region on a volunteer pro...
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Dave Ramsey says...
Dear Dave, My wife and I bought some furniture a while back on what we thought was a 24-months-same-as-cash plan. The original purchase price was $1,600. The other day, I got a call from a collecto...
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SouthGroup sponsors children’s event
SouthGroup Insurance Services has again joined with Friends of Children’s Hospital to present the SouthGroup Make a Difference 5K Run/Walk on Feb. 18 in Ridgeland. Last year’s event attracted over ...
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Bank offers free tax prep
To give low-income working individuals and families the opportunity to have their income tax return prepared free of charge, Southern Bancorp and its nonprofit affiliate, Southern Bancorp Community...
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