This is the start of the Back to School shopping season and Tax-Free Weekend is Friday and Saturday. It is the weekend when people traditionally shop for their kids and spend a little extra money on a night out or weekend get-together before school starts.
With much fanfare and the cameras rolling, Clarksdale signed on the dotted line for a $7.4 million check to pay for infrastructure projects Monday.
The Mayor and Board of Commissioners will now allocated the money to begin construction on five and possibly six big street, drainage and flooding projects around the city.
The Clarksdale Board of Mayor and Commissioners addressed the following city business at their meeting Monday, June 22, at their meeting at 4 p.m. at the City Auditorium.
Something was missing from Clarksdale this Spring.
Tourist from all over this great nation and the world were not walking our streets, in our restaurants and joints, shopping in our stores and sleeping in our hotels, motels and bed-and-breakfast inns.
And we missed them.
He grew up in a town not much bigger than Clarksdale and his dream is to offer children in this community an opportunity to follow their dream and share some of the immense success he has had.
A community needs to gather when good things happen.
If you “Love” Clarksdale, then buy your guy or gal a gift from a Clarksdale store this week.
January and February are two of the toughest months in the retail and restaurant business. Cold weather and short days tend to make people scurry home after work, and besides you gave your lover something at Christmas!
I have had the opportunity to live in several different communities and it is always neat to see how a neighborhood or town celebrates Christmas.
The holidays are all about tradition and often locals don’t see those time-honored events for what they really mean to the community.
Clarksdale is no different.
Dr. Val Towner sat quietly at his table in The Pinnacle – at the college he leads – and was surprised when they called his name and all eyes in the building fell on him.
Chamber bestows 2019 Small Business Award on Roger Stolle
Roger Stolle came to Clarksdale in 2002 with a mission to promote the blues from within.
In order to complete his mission, Stolle had to have an office and he used that office as a Mississippi blues store to lure people to Clarksdale.
