With the successful effort to pass the half-cent economic sales tax behind us, Dr. Wesley Kluck, co-chair of the Clark County Strategic Planning initiative, talked last week about where we go from here.

Although I missed the race itself, I read the news and web accounts of Olympic athlete Joey Cheek who announced, on winning the gold medal in speedskating, that he would donate the entire $25,000 prize to the philanthropic work of Norway’s famed Olav Koss, another gold medal Olympian.

CHICAGO — Yesterday, in cooperation and agreement with International Bio Fuels Corp., Consolidated Biofuels, Inc., a Chicago-based alternative fuels company (Pink Sheets:CSBF), announced through its CEO, Daniel L. Honeycutt, that on November 28, 2006, IBF, on behalf of the IBF/CSBF joint venture partnership, contracted with Chicot County, Arkansas to build and operate a unique combination biodiesel production and soybean oil crush facility located at the Port of Yellow Bend in…

Good business banks accounts and a full range of financial tools to help manage the operations of a business are vital factors in the success and growth of Delta companies large and small. In addition to their many offerings to individual account holders, Delta banks provide a wide variety of services designed specifically to meet business needs.

The Board of Directors of Delta Southern Bank is pleased to have been able to help the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center meet the terms of a $2.5 million challenge from Jim Barksdale. Mr. Barksdale had pledged the funds to the B.B. King Museum provided their board of directors raise $500,000 in matching funds.

In its second major energy announcement this year, Tyson Foods Inc. said Monday that it would spend $75 million to help build a synthetic fuels plant to power diesel cars and high performance military jets.

Little Rock (AP) – Congressman John Boozman has nominated six potential candidates as a successor on the federal bench for the late US District Judge George Howard Jr.

In its second major energy announcement this year, Tyson Foods Inc. said Monday that it would spend $75 million to help to power diesel cars and high-performance military jets.

From 2001 to 2005, the federal government spent nearly $1.2 billion in agricultural subsidies to boost farmers’ incomes and invigorate local economies in this poverty-stricken region of the Mississippi Delta.

Elaine kindergarten through third grade students recently toured First Bank of the Delta, N.A. located on Cherry St. in Helena.