Clay County News

A Steinway & Sons piano that belonged to legendary pianist Vladimir Horowitz has been touring the country, and on Tuesday evening, the piano was featured in West Point for a reception hosted by the Mississippi State University College of Education and Department of Music.

The West Point/Clay County Growth Alliance confirmed Wednesday that Pizza Inn of West Point is no longer in business.

The last thing the Clay County Board of Supervisors want to do is delay the process of bringing Yokohama Tire Corporation to West Point.

J.T. Marble, 75, died Tuesday, April 30, 2013, at his home. He was born Nov. 14, 1937, to Square Marble and Essie Gates Marble.

The Mississippi Legislature recently voted to give $70 million to a Japanese company to build a tire manufacturing company in Clay County.

The Mississippi Legislature recently voted to give $70 million to a Japanese company to build a tire manufacturing company in Clay County.

Is it appropriate to talk about Gov. Phil Bryant's successful courtship of the Yokohama Tire Co.

Just 15 months after they affiliated with his highly successful development team, Joe Max Higgins landed major Japanese tire manufacturer, Yokohama, and hundreds of high paying jobs for unemployment-ravaged West Point and Clay County.

Yokohama Chief Executive Officer Hikomitsu Noii, left, and Gov. Phil Bryant pose for photos after the announcement Monday that the company will build a new production facility in West Point.

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Cowboy boots, a quick change of tires, a doctored photo, and knowing how to handle a Japanese business card and put a worried exec's mind at ease all played a role in Mississippi landing a new Yokohama tire plant.

During Friday's special session, Mississippi Development Authority officials cited a study by the Institutions of Higher Learning Policy Research and Planning Division highlighting the economic benefits to the state of an incentive package to lure Yokohama tire manufacturing plant to Clay County.

In a House Ways and Means Committee meeting Friday, lawmakers were not told the name of the company.

Yokohama Tire Corporation plans to plans to build a plant that will make large tires for heavy equipment in near West Point.

Sources with knowledge of a proposed industrial project in West Point have confirmed that Yokohama Rubber Company, a tire manufacturer from Japan, has chosen Clay County as a project site.

But if it's a tire manufacturing plant, as several lawmakers say, industry officials point to South Korea's Hankook Tire Co.

Various sources have confirmed that the Legislature will take up incentives in Friday's special session to lure a major foreign tire manufacturing plant to Clay County.

Gov. Phil Bryant is calling the Mississippi Legislature back into special session on Friday, to consider economic incentives for what lawmakers say is a Japanese tire manufacturer that wants to open a plant near West Point.

Gov. Phil Bryant announced he will call a special session of the Mississippi Legislature to convene 10 a.m. Friday.

I do not make it a common practice to editorialize on page one. The situation regarding speculation of a legislative session involving a potential industrial project in Clay County needs to be addressed.