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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Picayune , city (1990 pop. 10,633), Pearl River co., S Miss., near the Pearl River and the La. line; inc. 1904. It is the trade, processing, and shipping center for an agricultural area with cotton, corn, pecans, cattle, and dairying. Manufactures include elevators, chemicals, polyurethane, metal containers, and computer equipment. NASA's Stennis Space Center and the Crosby Arboretum are nearby. Author not available, PICAYUNE. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

New Orleans Picayune
New Orleans Picayune (1837–), founded by G.W. Kendall...independent paper whose price per copy was a picayune, a Spanish coin current in the Southern...become the New Orleans Times‐Picayune. In 1933 it acquired the New Orleans... Read more

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	Paul's Pastry Shop kneads a ton of dough in Picayune ; PICAYUNE - George and Barbara Bush order their king cakes. Garth...entertainment business to neighbors frequent Paul's Pastry Shop in Picayune, billed as "the biggest little bakery in South Mississippi...Sherri Paul Thigpen, 44, owner of Paul's Pastry Shop in Picayune, with a laugh. "We have some great ... Read more
	Interview: Pete Finney discusses his 60 years as a sports columnist for The Times-Picayune of New Orleans ; ...60 years as a sports columnist for The Times-Picayune of New Orleans Host: SCOTT SIMON Time: 1:00...sports since 1945 for the New Orleans Times-Picayune--in fact, when The Times-Picayune was just The Times. But we could go on in this... Read more
	Picayune Rancheria wins latest round of Tillie Hardwick litigation ; ...which had tried to levy taxes against the Picayune Rancheria of Chuckchansi Indians. "We'...Peebles, who argued the case for the Picayune Rancheria. This ends a year-and-a-half...a result, seventeen tribes, including Picayune, were allowed as a by-product to reorganize... Read more
	Picayune sees tremendous growth in residential, commercial ; PICAYUNE - Tucked in the southwest corner of the state, on the road - I -59 to New Orleans, Picayune grew 13% from 1990 to 1998, increasing its number of residents...Hemeter, executive vice president of First National Bank of Picayune, who moved to Picayune in 1991. "So many people are moving... Read more
	"To love this city back to life": a reporter for New Orleans' Times-Picayune reflects on a wrenching period spent covering the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the effort to rescue a damaged yet absolutely essential place. ; ...months covering Katrina's everlasting aftermath for the Times-Picayune, at least in Cameron I was covering a different hurricane...chaos, a few of us who remained started taking bets on when the Picayune would put out its first edition that didn't contain the word... Read more
	Big time in the Big Easy. (awards won in 1997 by the New Orleans' Times-Picayune) (includes related article on Molly's at the Market, a New Orleans, LA bar popular with journalists) ; New Orleans' Times-Picayune used to be regarded as a journalistic...clear sense of when New Orleans' Times-Picayune, once listed among the nation's 10...good many of those who worked on the Picayune's public service award-winning series... Read more
	There's nothing small about the growth in Picayune ; American Heritage Dictionary definition of picayune: of little value or importance (adjective); a...in part of the southern United States (noun). PICAYUNE -- There's nothing picayune about the growth here. The city has a 100% building... Read more
	The Picayune catches up with David Duke. (investigative reports by the New Orleans Times Picayune) ; ...Orlean's only daily newspaper, The Times-Picayune (circulation 270,000), obligingly covered...Ku Klux Klan -- but Duke assured the Picayune reporter that There's not issue to it...assiduously providing information to The Times-Picayune and other media pointing to Duke's continued... Read more
	Katrina Marked Turning Point for 'Times-Picayune' ; ...Katrina Marked Turning Point for 'Times-Picayune' Host: SCOTT SIMON Time 12:00-13:00 PM...city's dominant newspaper, the Times-Picayune, found its true calling as it weathered...MARK SCHLEIFSTEIN (Reporter, The Times-Picayune): My wife sort of jokes about it. She... Read more
	Picayune residents thank Paradise officials for storm aid ; ...building March 7, two representatives of the Picayune School District in Picayune, Miss., thanked Paradise residents for their...the principal of Nicholson Elementary School in Picayune, Vera Beech, told the assembled crowd that... Read more

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