Blue Springs News

A financial hitch has delayed legislative action for a company that plans to build a $300 million factory in the Mississippi Delta, but lawmakers say they still expect the project to come through.

A Mississippi man was killed Friday in St. Martin Parish when his car hit an 18-wheeler, state police said.

A startup car company run by a Chinese businessman unveiled four prototype vehicles on Tuesday that it hopes to build at a proposed multibillion-dollar car plant in northwestern Mississippi.

Remaining hopeful in the midst of an economic downturn is tough, especially for the residents of Blue Springs, Miss., the village in Union County chosen as the home for Toyota's eighth North American car manufacturing plant.

BLUE SPRINGS - Infrastructure projects are continuing nearly on schedule around Toyota's northeast Mississippi plant, but the manufacturing facility is still on hold.

Normally when a state institution like a community college needs more space for expansion, the process from conception to completion takes three or four years.

BLUE SPRINGS a ' The Blue Springs Toyota plant Frontage Road, which runs from Union County Road 203 to SR 9 near Sherman, known as Magnolia Way, will open to traffic today, according to the Mississippi Department of Transportation .

Mississippians are that girl waiting for a longtime boyfriend to propose - at least when it comes to Toyota.

Although many economists have begun to see light at the end of the recessionary tunnel, Toyota Motor America chairman Yoshimi Inaba claims that Toyota is not currently profitable in North America, even though the company has taken numerous cost-cutting measures in recent months.

Early this year, in the depths of the economic doldrums, US dealers could hardly give away the high-mileage hybrids.

Last year wasn't the best of times for building new facilities or expanding existing ones.

Toyota Motor Co.'s decision to indefinitely postpone the opening of its assembly plant in northeast Mississippi has resulted in suppliers halting their plans.

Toyota's decision last December to postpone indefinitely opening a $1.3 billion assembly plant in Blue Springs has affected plans for the suppliers scheduled to serve the plant and the communities expecting new jobs and added tax revenue.

Call me a pessimist, but when news broke last week about plans to build a hybrid car plant in Mississippi - I found it a bit suspect.

BLUE SPRINGS, Miss. a ' Work is under way on Interchange and Connector-Distributor Road at Mississippi Highway 9 in Pontotoc and Union counties.

Truckmaker PACCAR will delay opening its $400 million engine plant in Lowndes County for a year, a company spokesman said.

Temp: 81.0 F Heat Index: 88 F Meridian, Key Field, MS The first Toyota supplier to announce plans for a north Mississippi location has offered buyouts to its 16 employees in Baldwyn.

Mississippi and Toyota officials are dismissing a published report saying Toyota is considering producing other vehicles than the Prius at the Blue Springs plant.

Auto manufacturers saw May sales increase from the month earlier, but they remained well below last year's figures.

Phil Pepper's extraordinarily cautious outlook about economic recovery in Mississippi reinforces unambiguously the importance of maintaining every educational attainment initiative in progress at the state, regional and district levels.