Yo’ Bar to move to Bluecutt despite outcry from area businesses
Columbus sports bar Yo’ Bar will move from its Highway 45 location to a larger building on Bluecutt Road early next year thanks to a 4-2 decision by the city council at its regular meeting Tuesday.
Starkville native’s ‘Thrive’ group helps businesses during COVID
Business at the Book Mart & Cafe on Main Street in Starkville doesn’t look much like it did before the COVID-19 pandemic descended on the area in March.
While Trump says economy could restart fully by Easter week, local pastors, businesspeople are not as optimistic
Rev. Todd Matocha of Main Street Presbyterian Church is preaching to the choir.
Only the choir.
His sermon for Sunday, March 22, titled “When Public Worship is Prohibited,” isn’t delivered before hundreds of parishioners. It was filmed the Thursday before in front of empty pews and posted on YouTube.
The Sherman Business Report: A boutique and bakery coming to downtown
GlamChic Boutiques is opening this weekend on Columbus Main Street.
Ramona Roberts and Bianca Jones-Johnson are sisters originally from Columbus and co-owners of the new boutique that will be located at 423 Main Street, the former home of Taylor Smith Shoes.
City: Law supports slashing businesses’ hours
It’s been a different sort of week for the relationship between Columbus’ city government and two of its businesses.
Consultant lauds mayor’s efforts to curtail crime
Police consultant K.B. Turner on Thursday threw his support behind Columbus Mayor Robert Smith and the city council’s recent decisions to roll back the hours of businesses that are hot spots for crime.
A drop in the bucket: Despite surge in black-owned businesses, sales lag
Black ownership of businesses more than doubled throughout the Golden Triangle and the state during the Great Recession, but sales by those businesses remained disproportionately low when compared to earnings from businesses owned by whites.
Columbus business owners prepare the next generation
Sarah Dunser never planned to take over the family business.
As more stores move into the Golden Triangle, how is competition shaping up?
About a decade ago, Shane Reed, a Neshoba County native who graduated from Mississippi State in 2000, decided to open a business in the Golden Triangle.
Businesses with name ‘Isis’ fight bad brand image
Aeran Brent is tired of visitors asking about her store’s name or snapping pictures of the sign outside.
Illegal immigrant audits rising at businesses
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement reached its highest number yet of companies audited for illegal immigrants on their payrolls this past fiscal year.