As the year 2020 wraps up, it also marks new beginnings and a new lease on life for two sea turtles rescued and rehabbed by the caretakers at the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport. The turtles were released into the Mississippi Sound and will be used to collect critical date in a groundbreaking study. A tale of two…
Santa Claus comes two weeks from today. There’s nothing worse than not getting your Christmas packages delivered before the Christmas holiday. It’s the busiest time of the year for the U.S. Postal Service. Millions of packages find their way through the postal service each holiday season. Postal deadlines ensure your packages arrive to your loved ones on time. One deadline…
The Salvation Army partners up with Coastal Family Health each month at the Kroc Center for free COVID-19 testing. Drive up in your car, fill out a quick information sheet, get a quick nose swab, and your COVID results will be ready in the next two hours. Registered nurses from the Coastal Family Health Clinic come to each car one…
Administrators at Ocean Springs High School are laying out the groundwork for their hybrid learning plan set to take effect at the start of the spring semester. Under this new plan set to take place January 5th, students will be split up into two teams based on their last name, the blue team and the grey team. Each day, one…
It’s one of South Mississippi’s favorite holiday pastimes and for a few weeks now ice skating at the Coast Coliseum has provided lots of fun for local residents. News 25’s Grant Chighizola has more. Categories: Harrison County, Local News, News Tags: Coast Coliseum, ice skating
Folks in Harrison County are going the extra mile to spread Christmas cheer without risking exposure to COVID-19. Go ahead and mark you calendars for Saturday, December 12th when everyone is invited to celebrate the holiday season with a drive-thru community Christmas event in Gulfport at the Isiah Frederick’s Community Center. The annual event will look a little different due…
Lace up your shoes and take a stroll with News 25’s Lorraine Weiskopf in today’s edition of Live Local, a series you can catch here on News 25 on Thursdays. Today, we take you to stop numbers 13 and 14 of the Biloxi Walking Tour with Biloxi Library Historian Jane Shambra. Vieux Marche is a segment of Biloxi’s earliest thoroughfare….
First time jobless claims jumped last week. According to the Labor Department, first time claims total 853,000. That’s 100,000 more than the previous week and the highest number of claims since September 19th. It’s much higher than analysts had been expecting though they had predicted an increase over last week’s numbers. Continuing claims or the number of people claiming benefits…
The Mississippi State Department of Health reported 2,283 new COVID-19 cases and 42 new deaths including two in George County and one new death in Harrison County. The statewide total stands at 172,955 confirmed cases and 4,083 deaths. Here are the numbers for our area: Hancock County has 1,445 cases and 45 deaths Harrison County is now at 8,332 cases…
While many Coast communities are canceling holiday celebrations due to the recent uptick in COVID-19 cases, one local neighborhood has provided Gulf Coast residents a safe, socially distanced way to get into the holiday spirit. The Long Beach neighborhood puts on an annual holiday light display that attracts many from all over the Coast. While driving down the magical street,…
One South Mississippi pet adoption story is gaining national recognition and now you have the chance to vote for it and help out the animals at the Humane Society of South Mississippi in the process. Sylvia Hanes adopted her dog Champ the pit bull from HSSM back in 2012. Sylvia soon discovered Champ’s love of sprinting which inspired her to…
As COVID cases continue to surge in our area and their varied impacts on our ability to provide educational services to students has continued to accelerate in recent days. In order to achieve higher levels of physical distancing in classrooms and decrease the current level of direct exposures and quarantines, the Ocean Springs Board of Trustees has approved the implementation…
While taking a cruise along Highway 90 in Gulfport, make sure to keep an eye out for the Mississippi Aquarium’s newest mural. Gulfport artist and retired Gulfport firefighter Robert Waldrop designed and painted the 70 by 5 foot mural at the intersection of Highway 90 and 20th Avenue. The mural highlights the Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphins who call the aquarium home….
What a difference a week makes! Last week, we showed you how Hurricane Zeta debris clean up had begun in Pass Christian and now just a little more than a week later sections of the city streets and sidewalks are clearly debris free. One section notably debris free is East Second Street in Pass Christian. Pass Christian Mayor Chipper McDermott…
C-Spire does more than help us communicate via the world wide web. At the Mississippi Center for Autism and Related Development, C-Spire donated five brand new iPads to help with the communication of autistic children. The iPads will be used to increase the communication skills with children who are nonverbal. The easy to use touch screen makes it easy for…
With the holidays this year occurring in the midst of a global pandemic, the Gulf Coast Community has continued to help make sure no one goes hungry. This afternoon in Gulfport, several community organizations, including Feeding the Gulf Coast of Mobile, Extra Tables out of Hattiesburg, and Extend a Hand, Help a Friend, gathered to distribute boxes of food to…
Pass Christian middle and elementary school’s robotics team is taking the program to new heights, scoring three major wins in the recent Mississippi Gulf Coast VEX IQ Challenge for Excellence and Design. At first glance it may look like Legos, but this set up is actually constructed by Pass Christian Elementary and Pass Christian Middle School robotics students and serves…
Over in Biloxi, Hurricane Zeta repairs continue to move along at a steady pace and one downtown monument damaged by the storm is ready for visitors once again. A four-man team from Bailey Granite in Kentucky made repairs to the Gold Star Families Monument yesterday morning. Although there was some minor damage to the granite panels, the monument has been…
Mississippi is receiving it first round of coronavirus vaccines, but who will have access to the vaccine first? Nine hundred and seventy-five doses of the coronavirus vaccine will be sent to Memorial Hospital in Gulfport this weekend or early next week. Everyone wants to know who will get the vaccine first. Cindy Hansen, the director of employee health at Memorial…
The Mississippi State Department of Health reported 2,746 new COVID-19 cases and 24 new deaths across the state. The statewide total stands at 170,672 confirmed cases and 4,041 deaths. Here are the numbers in our area: Hancock County has 1,410 cases and 45 deaths Harrison County is now at 8,140 total cases and 117 deaths Jackson County has 7,123 cases…
A pedestrian was killed while crossing train tracks in Biloxi late this morning. Police tell News 25 a man was walking across the tracks on the intersection of Eisenhower Drive just before 11 a.m. when the train fatally struck him. The train came to an emergency stop shortly after the incident, prompting closures of railroad intersections at Eisenhower Drive and…
Attention all art lovers, there’s a new exhibit on display at MGCCC’s Jackson County campus. It’s featuring the work of Frank Janca, a Biloxian and internationally renowned artist. The name of the exhibit is ‘Mississippi and the French Connection.’ Janca picked this name because he has painted subjects in both France and Mississippi, yet the way he expresses light in…
The Jackson-George Library System is changing their services for the safety of their patrons. After the state released an advisory about having gatherings inside, it was decided that they needed to reduce their service. They’re now providing only curbside services and computer by appointment. You can still access multiple library services online like the new Overdrive Library program which provides…
Face mask distributions to the public are happening all across the country in an effort to slow the spread of COVID-19. Locally, the Pascagoula Fire Department did its part to keep the community healthy by holding a mask distribution today. Dozens of cars rolled through the parking lot of the Pascagoula Senior Center where the distribution was held from 8…