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Docket out for Monday session of Columbia County criminal court
A preliminary docket for Columbia County Circuit Court Criminal Division has been released by the office of Circuit Judge David W. Talley Jr. Court will be held at 9 a.m. Monday, July 8, 2024 in the courtroom at the Columbia County Criminal Detention Facility in Magnolia. Those defendants scheduled to...
Southern Title & Closing recognized as Chamber's Business of the Month
Southern Title & Closing, LLC, 417 N. Washington in Magnolia, has been named as the Magnolia-Columbia County Chamber of Commerce Business of the Month for June 2024. Southern Title & Closing is Columbia County’s only locally owned and operated title insurance company. The company had its beginnings as Cowling...
Hot dogs, music, skateboarding, splashing all part of tonight's Sparks in the Park
Sparks in the Park, Magnolia’s pre-Fourth of July celebration, begins at 6 p.m. tonight, Wednesday, July 3, 2024 at East Side Park. People who go should be prepared for extraordinarily hot temperatures. An excessive heat warning is in effect for Columbia County through 8 p.m. Thursday. Hot dogs will...
Excessive heat warning in effect for Magnolia area
Columbia County and neighboring counties and parishes are under an excessive heat warning through 8 p.m. Thursday, July 4, 2024 – Independence Day. The National Weather Service in Shreveport forecasts dangerously hot conditions with heat index values up to 113. Heat-related illnesses increase significantly during extreme heat and high...
Lithium pilot plant will be built at Albemarle's Magnolia West site
Albemarle Corporation will construct a pilot facility for the production of lithium at its West Plant on U.S. 371, west of Magnolia. The announcement came in a letter mailed late last week to thousands of people who own brine royalty rights within the company’s West Production Area in Columbia County.
Mike McNeill’s Diary for Wednesday, June 26, 2024: Latest lithium dispatches
Many readers insist that the lithium boom will never happen and we can appreciate the cynicism. We were all disappointed when the Lower Smackover Brown Dense saga failed to play out a decade ago. The LSBD seemed a hot prospect to produce copious amounts of oil from deep beneath South Arkansas and North Louisiana. Lots of wells, but disappointing results. These same people see lithium wells being drilled, but no production plants being built in Columbia or Lafayette counties, while at the same time hearing that lithium prices have fallen. Prices have fallen, but that’s not always going to be the case since the demand for lithium is still there. We’ve said previously that 2024 was going to be the “get ready” year for lithium in South Arkansas. Lots of planning. Lots of behind-the-scenes work. This includes finding where the best lithium concentrations are, consolidating lithium brine leases into production units, creation of a lithium royalty structure for the benefit of landowners, and in the case of some smaller players, rounding up financing for facilities that will cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Now we have a new burst of local lithium news. It seems to come in bursts. ExxonMobil says it has a buyer for up to 100,000 metric tons of Mobil Lithium. Exxon vows that it will produce enough lithium in South Arkansas to make 1 million electric vehicle batteries annually by 2030 from a plant that has, as yet, not been built. Today comes word from a different company, EnergyX, that it will build a lithium facility atop the Smackover formation – we suspect somewhere in the northeast corner of Texas. And we can tell you: If you own property on the western side of Columbia County, keep a watch on your mailbox for an important announcement. It won’t be from the Publishers Clearing House.
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