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Economic growth doesn’t always come in the form of smoke stacks extending high from the roof tops of factories. Sometimes it comes in much smaller doses with equally long term effects.   Friday, at Widemann’s Restaurant in downtown Meridian, representatives of AT&T in Meridian presented a $10,000 check to officials with the Montgomery Institute...
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Reprinted from The Meridian Star   MAYHEW — A pair of Golden Triangle students recently took advantage of grants and local funding to complete two programs, each, through East Mississippi Community College’s Workforce Services Division without paying a penny out of pocket. The duo said it was tough, but it was worth it.  ...
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MERIDIAN, Miss- May 23, 2012- “Nexus Hero Brown Bag Lunch classes let you feed your face while learning to use Internet tools to feed personal productivity and business opportunities,” said Nexus Hero creator and entrepreneur Clay Hamilton. “Or you might just come to pick up some new skills.”   Nexus Hero is a program...
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The newest edition of The Montgomery Institute Newsletter is available now.  Click here to go to the newsletter.
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  “Live At 5″ Video – WTOK “Newscenter 11″ Video – WTOK Governors Talk Realism, Opportunity, and Regionalism Video Mayors’ Regional Summit Story – The Meridian Star MERIDIAN, Miss. – Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour and Alabama Robert Bentley joined other leaders November 9, 2011, for a bi-state summit on strategies that would help West...
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MERIDIAN —     There are many references of the Black Belt of the South.   Booker T. Washington, who wrote, in his 1901 autobiography, Up from Slavery, said the term was first used to designate a part of the country, which was distinguished by the color of the soil. The part of the country...
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MERIDIAN, Miss- September 22, 2011- “On target and very practical,” said one. “I can…apply it,” said another. The demand for Nexus Hero Workshops continues to grow.   “In my opinion the topic is right on target and very practical,” said Bruce Hanson, an entrepreneur facilitator for East Mississippi Community College Community.  “Many times such...
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In a special section of The Meridian Star entitled “Meridian and its Neighbors,” Meridian Mayor Cheri Barry touted the West Alabama – East Mississippi Mayors Network and challenged regional partners to come together and build a better future.   “The relationship and partnership between Meridian and her neighbors grow by the day,” she said....
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At its June 28 annual awards ceremony, Mississippi Main Street awarded its “best business retention/recruitment program” award to Meridian Main Street for the Nexus Hero program.   In June 2010, Meridian Main Street in partnership with The Montgomery Institute, the City of Meridian, and Mississippi State University, held the first Nexus Hero: Internet Entrepreneurship...
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“I’ll be totally honest,” said Bay Springs Chamber director Lela Bryan. “I thought Nexus Hero might be more of a pie-in-the-sky concept that would not have its fit in our rural communities.  Well, my eyes have been opened!”   Her enthusiastic response mirrored that of Quitman Mayor Eddie Fulton who termed the program “wonderful”...
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