By Steve Gillespie
sgillespie@themeridianstar.com
East Central Mississippi will receive more than $100 million worth of stimulus package funding for infrastructure. Mississippi Department of Transportation commissioners unanimously voted to certify projects in a special meeting this morning. Projects include: $50 million for phase two of the widening of Highway 19 from Meridian to Philadelphia; $30 million for the Hawkins Crossing project to benefit the I-20/59 industrial park; $15 million to rebuild Highway 45 from the Kemper County line to Brooksville; $10 million to add two lanes from the I-20/59 split to State Route 19; and $2.7 million for work on State Route 39 from I-20 to 52nd Street in Lauderdale County.
