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Maury Regional named a top hospital for third consecutive year

From The Columbia Daily Herald – Tim Hodge Truven Health Analytics, a healthcare data-analysis organization, designated the Maury Regional Health Care System as one of the 15 Top Health Systems in the U.S. for a third time. The system is the sole healthcare provider in Tennessee to make the 2015 list announced in the April 20 edition of Modern Healthcare …

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Team Maury: The Maury County Chamber and Economic Alliance has the right magic

From the Columbia Daily Herald – Roben Mounger Imagine a bustling agricultural supply business in downtown Columbia around 1907. The upper 8,000—square—foot floor of Porter Walker is filled with mule harnesses, wagon parts and the like. By the 1940s, imagine then that the phosphate industry transfigured that same upper floor to creak with the supply bulk of industry — hard …

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Local officials forge D.C. connections

From the Columbia Daily Herald – Tim Hodge While President Barack Obama wrapped up his Nashville visit, Maury County Chamber and Economic Alliance officials were returning from the Commander-in-Chief’s home base. The MCCEA took a delegation of 20 people — consisting of local elected officials, MCCEA staff, board members, business investors and employers — on a trip in Washington, D.C., …

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Duck River Featured in National Geographic

Nashville Public Radio – Blake Farmer The Duck River is featured in this month’s National Geographic for being one of the most ecologically diverse places in the world. It’s the only site in North America to be noted in the magazine. A mountain in South Africa. A cloud forest in Costa Rica. A coral reef in French Polynesia. And Tennessee’s …