A new ‘chill spot’ is officially open. SnoBiz held their ribbon cutting ceremony earlier today and served shaved ice treats. This is an indoor snow cone business that has over 50 different flavors. SnoBiz is known for their super soft ice and it has been compared to cotton candy. The unique part about this snow cone business is that it…
Today, Frets for Pets 2022 kicks off at the Juke Joint in Ocean Springs. News 25’s Rick Gogreve is at the party with more. Categories: Local News, News Tags: Frets for Pets, Juke Joint
A local food drive’s mission is to restock the almost empty pantry at Back Bay Mission. The director of the Lyman Senior Center Al Jones went to Back Bay Mission and realized there were only seven cans in the pantry. After noticing Back Bay’s need for donations, the Lyman Senior Center started a food drive on July 25th. With the…
Happening tomorrow in Moss Point, a good time with good food. Grillin’ the River City takes place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and is set to feature some of the best grilled food on the Coast from different restaurants and vendors with some prizes on the line as well. All the action is happening on the Moss Point Riverfront…
Boxing is coming to Pascagoula. Saturday night at the Jackson County Civic Center, Black Royalty LLC and SAPromotions are putting on a Fight Night event. Their goal is to give local prospects exposure and bring excitement about the sport to South Mississippi. Along with giving young athletes exposure, they say building a boxing community also gives youth in our community…
The Transportation Department has proposed new rules for delayed or canceled flights and mortgage rates have dropped to their lowest level since April. Jane King is at the Nasdaq with those stories and more in today’s Morning Business Report. Categories: Business Tags: business, morning business report
If you homeschool your kids, the Salvation Army has classes that can help supplement your curriculum. Here to tell us about those classes and their homeschool program are Morgan Shiyou and Felicia Bond. Categories: Community Headlines Tags: classes, education, home school, Salvation army
Four-year-olds are now going to school in the Long Beach School District. Quarles and Reeves Elementary schools have started a new pre-k program. Before this school year, kids began their educational journey in the district at age five. The goal of this program is to prepare children for kindergarten with an emphasis on teaching the alphabet and numbers and having…
Picayune is responding to the devastating flash flood in Kentucky. The Whitesburg Police Department serves a community that was hit hard by the storm and several patrol vehicles were destroyed. To help in the time of need, the City of Picayune is donating a 2011 Dodge Charger to the department and today Picayune officers are making the drive up to…
This afternoon will bring hot temperatures and a few showers/t-storms induced by the sea-breeze. Activity will fizzle out just before sunset. With an uptick in mid-level drier air comes the potential for entrainment into convective updrafts leading to a gusty downdraft winds. Outside of scattered convection, surface winds will be occasionally breezy out of the southeast which will feel good…
Today will bring hot and humid conditions with t-storm coverage slightly more reduced for generally areas along/near of I-55 and east to the MS coast given this slightly drier overall environment settling in. Messy clusters of storms will be best rooted along NW surging outflow boundaries, but should be progressive enough to reduce the overall flash flooding risk especially for…
Upper ridging to the west and east with troughing across the local area. This pattern has been rather stubborn to remain over the area for much of the last week, with only minor differences from day to day. Precipitable water values continue to run above 2 inches, and with convective temperatures running in the mid to upper 80s, scattered thunderstorms…
Getting excited for high school football season comes easy at Brett Favre’s alma mater where the Hancock Hawks are eager to make last year a thing of the past at stop number 12 on News 25’s 25 Teams in 25 Days. Quarterback Dylan Moran said, “I think really everybody just got sick of being that 3-7 Hancock, so we really…
Good news for high school football fans from the Gulf Coast, MHSAA State Championship games will return to Hattiesburg this season. The South and North champions from classifications 1 through 6 will do battle on the first weekend of December, Friday the 2nd and Saturday the 3rd for the right to hoist up a gold ball like the Picayune Maroon…
The students of Our Lady Academy hosted a last-day of summer get together to celebrate their summer and to get excited for a brand-new school year. For the first time in several years, the student council at Our Lady Academy decided to host its Last-Day-of-Summer Bonfire for the whole student body. Students from all grades seventh through 12th made their…
Long Beach High School goes the extra mile to keep their students safe for the new school year. With students returning to school from summer break, when it comes to security measures at Long Beach High School, Principal Justin Sutton feels it is a major priority. “The goal is to just limit any kind of danger that can come to…
Southern Productions is going to host a two-day event for the first ever music festival in the Pass Christian Harbor. The Swamp Pop Festival will be held on September 30th and October 1st followed up with Cruisin’ the Coast. The event will be located at the Green Lot at the harbor behind the Blind Tiger butcher shop. Being a music…
Although the morning was pretty gloomy here in South Mississippi, the halls were filled with sunshine and excitement as students were welcomed back to school in the Pascagoula Gautier School District. Principals, faculty, and staff welcomed students back to schools all across the Pascagoula-Gautier School District. After the past two year dealing with a pandemic, Casey Hanna, principal at Lake…
Pascagoula High School hosted a school-wide assembly in the gym to kick off the school year and also honor a local hero. Corion Evans, a senior at Pascagoula High School, saved a group of girls and a police officer from drowning in July. Today, the City of Pascagoula presented Evans with a proclamation and the YMCA presented Evans with a…
This morning, Biloxi fire and police rescued a puppy from an apartment building struck by lightning. Biloxi Fire Department got the call around 6:45 this morning of a fire at Lagniappe Apartments. Once on scene, the flames and smoke were extinguished from three to four units and no injuries were reported. And a four-legged girl was rescued, the dog is…
Caleb Bradley was also honored at Gautier High School for jumping in and helping save the lives of the girls and police officer as well. The Bradley brothers, Kron and Caleb, were the first to jump in and help their friends, but taking on water made them sick. Police arrived on scene and tried to help, but the water also…
A bit of a scare in Downtown Ocean Springs this morning as people reported seeing smoke coming from the Walter Anderson Museum of Art. The Ocean Springs Fire Department responded to a fire alarm at the Ocean Springs Community Center adjacent to WAMA. The building was filling up with smoke, which resulted in a full evacuation. The crews quickly turned…
A mainstay of Downtown Ocean Springs is missing. The statue of two children on a tricycle was stolen from in front of Miner’s Doll and Toy Store on Washington Avenue sometime between Monday evening and Tuesday morning. The bronze statue was presented to the original owners John and Maryalice Miner in honor of their 90th birthdays. The purpose of the…
Airline flight deals are starting to come back and Walmart lays off hundreds of corporate workers. Jane King is at the Nasdaq with those stories and more in today’s Morning Business Report. Categories: Business Tags: business, morning business report