Biloxi Community Market ready to spring into a busy season

For more than 45 years, Biloxi’s Community Market has been providing area residents with fresh produce, plants, crafts, and homemade goodies. Despite it being in the 50s this morning, vendors were selling their products under the I-110 overpass on Howard Avenue. Spring is the busiest season for the market and Market Manager Tina Cowart has seen the number of vendors…

Craft Beer Fest hops into MGM Park on Saturday

The Biloxi Chamber of Commerce is hosting their fourth annual Craft Beer Fest this Saturday at MGM Park. The festival hops into MGM Park this Saturday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.  and you’ll be able to sample beers from local and regional breweries. A few of the local favorites that will be on draft are Fly Llama, Chandeleur, and…

3/24 – Brittany’s “Dry and Cool” Thursday Afternoon Forecast

Overall much more benign with cool and dry weather is in store for the area through the short term as the upper level trough currently in the middle of the US continues to move towards the east coast. This will not have any rain but just wind shifts from southwesterly to westerly then northwesterly. LONG TERM… The dry weather continues…

High School Baseball: D’Iberville vs. Pascagoula

With Battle at the Beach having come and gone, it’s hard to know what to make of the non-district portion of the high school baseball schedule. Take Region 7 Class 6A for example, both D’Iberville and Pascagoula coming into tonight’s game under .500 despite deep post-season runs for both schools last season. D’Iberville wins 1-0. Categories: Local Sports, Sports Tags:…

High school students across the state attend ninth annual Palazzo Youth Leadership Summit

High school juniors and seniors from across South Mississippi came together on the MGCCC Harrison County campus to attend the ninth annual Palazzo Youth Leadership Summit. Over 258 students from 30 different high schools from across the state joined together inside the IMPAC Center to hear personal testimonies and leadership advice from several prestigious guests. MGCCC President Dr. Mary Graham…

NCAA Baseball: Mississippi State vs. Southern

For the first time since winning its first ever national championship, the Mississippi State baseball program dropping out of the top 25 this week. So how would those natty champs respond in the mid-week? Diamond Dawgs hosting Southern University at the Dude. Bulldogs win this one 14-5. Categories: Local Sports, Sports Tags: baseball, mississippi state, sports

Annual Crawfish Boil Fundraiser for Jolly Circus kick off

Twenty-one local organizations received a check from the Bacot McCarty Foundation during their annual Jolly Crawfish Kickoff. The fundraising event is an opportunity for local organizations to give and receive money toward its cause. Local non-profits like Make-A-Wish, Center Stage, the Boys and Girls Club of Jackson County, and Lynn Meadows, to name a few, accepted checks totaling $75,000. Long-time…

Buddy Ball holds opening ceremony for new season

Today, Mississippi Gulf Coast Buddy Sports held its Buddy Ball opening night ceremony and games. Mississippi Buddy Ball is back and ready for action at the Gulfport Sportsplex. The league began the night with a game at 5 o’clock which was then followed up by the opening night ceremony. For the ceremony, each team lined up and trotted down the…

Orthram Inc. identifies another unidentified body in Mississippi

Othram, Inc. was acknowledged by Jackson County Sheriff’s yesterday as the lab responsible for all DNA Lab Work in revealing the identify of Moss Point John Doe. On December 8th, 1982, human remains belong to a young African American man, now identified as Gary Simpson, were found in the Escatawpa River underneath the eastbound lane of I-10 in Jackson County….

Saenger Theatre construction is in final phase of exterior renovations

Now a quick update on the Biloxi Saenger Theatre as exterior renovations near completion. Contractors have removed the stucco from the front of the building and are now repairing the brick, the final phase of the exterior construction. The full exterior project costs about $2.5 million in city and grant funds and the interior will cost an estimated $3 million….

Merit Health staffers compete in Corn Hole Tournament

The employees of Merit Health were out near the District Green in Biloxi today for an unlikely competition. The employees get together for a friendly corn-hole competition twice a year and it lasts all week from Monday to Friday. It gives these staffers a chance to smack-talk the administrators over the course of the week. Senior Clinic Accountant Angela Bradford…

Memorial welcomes group to residency

Memorial Hospital at Gulfport welcomes a host of new medical school grads to train in its residency program as it enters its second year after accreditation. As the first-years will help guide the newcomers, the two groups got together over zoom this afternoon to get to know each other. Each group has about ten new physicians and the program is…

Vandalized figure of Jesus returned, statue of Virgin Mary still missing from St. James Cemetery

News 25 reported an incident of vandalism and theft at St. James Catholic Church Cemetery in Gulfport. That very same day, an important figure that was stolen was returned, but a piece is still missing. Two weeks ago, a St. James Catholic Church parishioner reported the church cemetery was vandalized and a figure of Jesus crucified was stolen along with…

Morning Business Report: March 23rd, 2022

The Great Resignation continues as 44 percent of workers look for a new job and baristas at the original Starbucks store in Seattle vote to pursue a union. Jane King is at the Nasdaq with these stories and more. Categories: Business Tags: business, morning business report

Fish Fry benefiting Melissa Miller as she battles stage three cancer

The daughter of retired Biloxi Police Officer Wayne Miller is battling stage three cancer. Her name is Melissa and she’s a 37-year-old single mom. To help pay for medical costs, this Friday, Biloxi PD and Swetman Security are hosting a fish fry. Captain Tom Goldsworthy with Biloxi PD is in studio with more. Tags: fish fry, melissa miller

Traveling Vietnam Memorial on display in Bay St. Louis

A traveling Vietnam Memorial has made its way to Bay St. Louis. It’s a replica of the Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C. designed to travel across the country. Wednesday morning, students at Bay High were helping set up ‘the wall that heals’ which is a traveling three quarter scale replica of the Vietnam Memorial. The wall is stored inside a…

Federal storm grant for southeastern states

$1.9 billion in federal aid is coming to Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama to help fund losses from flooding and hurricanes over the past two years. A vast majority of that will be going to Louisiana, $1.7 billion of the $1.8 billion. Alabama will receive $189.5 million and Mississippi $16.6 million. The department says the Louisiana cities of Lake Charles and…

No storm damage reported in South Mississippi

South Mississippi seems to have escaped the night unscathed. The Sound was choppy and waves were certainly noticeable along the beach and there was the usual sand blown across Highway 90. There was some ponding on area roads and Jones Park had some light flooding. But so far, no reports of any tornado damage or downed power lines. Categories: Local…