Some college students like to go to the beach or maybe hit the mountains for spring break, but for some students, they use their time to give back. Phyllis Madden’s prayers of fixing up her house were finally answered after waiting five years. A grandmother who is raising her three grandchildren will have a newly renovated house inside and out…
More than 400 high school students attended the Experience CTE for the 21st Century event on the MGCCC Harrison County campus. At the event, students learned about the more than 50 careers and technical education programs the college offers in a one and two year format. These CTE programs provide students the opportunity to enter a career sooner and find…
Match Day is here and Memorial Health System Graduate Medical Education welcomed its 2023 family medicine and internal medicine resident physicians. Match Day marks the day when eagerly awaiting medical gradates find out which residency program they have matched with to begin their post-graduate training. Memorials’ graduate medical education program provides progressive training and invaluable experience. At the Match Day,…
A St. Joseph Altar is an offering of love, labor, and sacrifice, honoring the patron saint of the Sicilians and the universal church. Its origin begins in Sicily during a time of drought and famine. In dire need, people turned to St. Joseph for a helping hand and prayer. When it rained and crops began to bear fruit, an altar…
More than half of Americans hire a professional to help them with their taxes and weekly jobless claims still show a tight labor market. Jane King is at the Nasdaq with those stories and more in today’s Morning Business Report. Categories: Business Tags: business, morning business report
In just a few weeks, the Pink Hearts Fund will have the ribbon walk and butterfly release on April 29th. Here to tell us more about the event is JoAn Niceley. Categories: Community Headlines Tags: Butterfly release, Pink Hearts Fund, Ribbon Walk
This St. Patrick’s Day we are celebrating Irish heritage through dance. Director and Instructor at Niall O’Leary School of Irish Dance Amy Bowman and dancers from the school are in studio to help celebrate! Categories: Community Headlines Tags: Niall O’Leary School of Irish Dance, st. patrick’s day
On Saturday, Waveland will keep the St. Paddy’s Day fun going with a St. Patrick’s Day Parade in the heart of the city. The parade rolls at 1 p.m. It begins at the corner of Bienville Drive and North Beach Boulevard and follows a route that takes the fun through Nicholson, Central, and Coleman Avenues before ending at Elwood Bourgeois…
It’s St. Patrick’s Day and events are going on today all around the Coast to help you celebrate the patron saint of Ireland. Ocean Springs has dining and shopping deals as well as a pub crawl that starts at 4 this afternoon. Pascagoula will be parading downtown tonight at 7 p.m. for O’Blarney’s Parade. The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum will have beer…
Tonight, students, past and present, will gather to pay their respects to Kathy Mangin, a beloved music and choir director at St. Alphonsus Catholic School. She used her talents to inspire students for more than three decades. She died Saturday in a car accident in Ocean Springs at the age of 66. Visitation for Kathy is today from 5 p.m….
A line of showers/t-storms to the west associated with an approaching cold front will move into through area this morning into early afternoon. A surface low pressure system is moving through the mid-west with a front stretched back to the southwest. Locally, heavy rainfall will begin to move in shortly after sunrise. The overall issue with getting severe weather is…
Stone High School has a new man for the job to take over the football program in the form of Jacob Aycock. Aycock has been approved by the school board to be the successor to John Feaster, now the head coach at Moss Point. The Tomcats are coming off their best season in over 30 years and Aycock has seen…
All is quiet now as we await our next weather system. The upper trough is currently over the Dakotas with a weaker shortwave/jet type feature moving across the southern states. The surface low is up in MO with a front stretched back to the southwest. Locally, clouds will continue to increase tonight with temps increasing initially as the southerly return…
March Madness officially underway for the Mississippi State women’s basketball team, taking down Illinois last night 70-56. This was MSU’s first NCAA tournament win since 2019. The Lady Bulldogs found a spark in the third quarter, outscoring the fighting Illini 21-8 during that stretch. Guard Anastasia Hayes said, “Defense turned into offense and we were just playing and having fun….
The Biloxi Shuckers are less than a month away from the start of their 2023 season, but between the Hancock Whitney Classic and Battle at the Beach, MGM Park is still getting plenty of use this week before the home town team takes their stadium back. After a 9-0 win for Ocean Springs over Lafayette, St. Martin takes on McGill-Toolen…
A food truck vendor ordinance is in the works for the City of Long Beach. Long Beach City Council is looking to dish out an ordinance allowing food trucks. The city council held a work session tonight, listening to draft suggestions. While the meeting was insightful, the council decided they needed more time to gather suggestions for the ordinance. The…
One woman turned her early life’s misfortune into an opportunity to help others who fall down similar paths. Overcoming hardships is an integral part of any person’s life, but for Sharon Robbins, she used those negative experiences as building blocks to create a bright future for her and many others. Robbins began her life on a traumatic path, first being…
Two Coast women are being recognized for accomplishments they’ve made during their careers. Two Coast execs are being honored for their hard work as top businesswomen. LuAnn Pappas, CEO of Scarlet Pearl Casino Resort, and Dr. Mary Graham, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College president, have been named 2023 Top CEOs by the Mississippi Business Journal. Pappas has many accomplishments at…
All is quiet now as we await our next weather system. The upper trough is currently over the Dakotas with a weaker shortwave/jet type feature moving across the southern states. The surface low is up in MO with a front stretched back to the southwest. Locally, clouds will continue to increase tonight with temps increasing initially as the southerly return…
Biloxi Mayor FoFo Gilich gave his annual State of the City Address. The City of Biloxi has done a lot in the past year, but now they are looking forward to changes in the future. Main water and sewage lines are being added to areas of Woolmarket. Downtown Biloxi is slowly coming together with the outside construction of the Saenger…
A new season for Ship Island Excursions starts this weekend! Employees have been preparing all week, restocking the snack bar on the ferry, and setting up chairs along the island. Last year, the ferry brought more than 50,000 visitors to the island between the months of March and October. The island offers a lot of different beach activities, along with…
A George County welding student is a back-to-back sculptural welding champion. Career and Technical Education bridges the gap between high school and post-secondary plans. George County School District is home to the best CTE program in the state and one class that continues to excel is welding. Instructor Jason Frey said, “I teach second- and third-year welding, so we do…
March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. News 25’s Janae Jordan spoke with a cancer survivor and doctor on the importance of getting checked early. “I honestly thought that I couldn’t eat nuts anymore. I thought I had diverticulitis. I didn’t realize that it was something deeper.” Jennifer Dupree was living her life, raising her daughter, not thinking that at just…
Kathy Mangin, the St. Alphonsus music and choir director, died Saturday in a car accident. She was 66. No one is quite sure how many years Ms. Kathy had been teaching, but St. Alphonsus Assistant Principal Lauren Ross remembers sitting in her music class when she was in seventh grade, 30 years ago. “Ms. Kathy was so talented that she…