Reclaiming Real Food: This weekend retreat will change your relationship with food for good
Common sense isn’t so common any more, specifically when it comes to our relationship with nutrition. As a whole, we are a nation hooked on processed foods and drive-throughs. And we pay a price for that.
Millage increase discussion resurfaces
When asked last week during a working retreat to list ways to bring more money into city coffers, a group of Columbus department heads had several suggestions.
Get the Columbus crime lab accredited and utilize it more effectively. Be more creative in raising fees from events at the Trotter Convention Center. Sell more city-owned real estate.
Council could demand quarterly reports from school board
Other than appointing officials to the school board, Columbus councilmen are limited when it comes to what they can legally do to facilitate improvement in the school district.
Councilmen, dept. heads to tour wards before retreat
Columbus councilmen and department heads are having a retreat Dec. 5 and they’ll tour each ward the city in the days beforehand to assess issues that are unique to the city’s different areas.
Council approves plans for retreat
The Columbus City Council approved plans for a Dec. 5 strategic planning retreat to be held at the Plymouth Bluff Center.
Phil Hardwick, project manager at the John C. Stennis Institute of Government and Community Development at Mississippi State University, will facilitate the retreat.
CVB board tables proposed ’14 budget
During the annual Columbus-Lowndes Convention and Visitor’s Bureau’s Board of Directors retreat, members unanimously opted to table the proposed budget for the 2014 fiscal year after requests for additional line items to be broken down into more detail.
CVB to discuss strategic plan at retreat
The Columbus-Lowndes Convention and Visitors Bureau Board of Directors will hold its monthly meeting Tuesday to be followed by its annual retreat, where members will discuss the budget for the upcoming fiscal year as well as a strategic plan.
Media relations, criticism are hot topics at school board retreat
The Columbus Municipal School District’s board of trustees held its annual retreat Saturday morning at the Wingate by Wyndham hotel.
Sequestered in a tiny side room dominated by a long conference table, the board discussed the events of the past year and brainstormed ways to make the upcoming year better.
New Homestead Center offers women’s retreat
The newly opened Mississippi Modern Homestead Center in Starkville hosts its first Women’s Wellness Retreat Jan. 11-13.
The retreat will feature workshops such as “The Nourishing Kitchen,” “Backyard Medicine” and “Finding Your Story.”
Board to revisit municipal complex at weekend retreat
Mayor Parker Wiseman is looking forward to a productive annual retreat when he and the Board of Aldermen meet for a pair of work sessions this weekend.
The board will meet Friday and Saturday in the Greater Starkville Development Partnership board room. The sessions are open to the public.
