Humane Society of South Mississippi offers pet preparation tips for hurricane season

While preparing hurricane kits and other emergency needs this hurricane season, don’t forget to make preparations for your furry friends as well. The Humane Society of South Mississippi recommends pet owners prepare three main things in case of severe weather: a pet evacuation pack, a disaster plan, and update your pets’ microchips and tags. Some of the recommended items for…

Community leaders push to get more people vaccinated

Memorial Hospital held a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination distribution at Katie Patterson Booth Community Center to help get more people vaccinated within the Gulfport community. According to Mississippi Department of Health, only 36 percent of total doses have been administered to African Americans. To help encourage more minorities to get vaccinated, community leaders came together to set up vaccination events to…

PJ’s Coffee of New Orleans cuts the ribbon in Ocean Springs

The Ocean Springs Chamber of Commerce welcomes its newest business as PJ’s Coffee of New Orleans is back and better than ever. PJ’s Coffee celebrated with a ribbon cutting after switching to new management back in September of 2020. It was also Customer Appreciation Day and everyone was invited to join in on the celebration by grabbing some free pastries…

Ocean Springs School District launching ‘Power Up Institute’

The Ocean Springs School District is launching a summer program to combat summer and COVID-19 learning loss. OSSD has launched the Power Up Institute, a collection of educational summer camps designed to combat potential summer learning loss in students. Administration and staff recognize the impact on student achievement when student learning opportunities are extended beyond the regular school calendar. As…

Jackson County School District Superintendent helps students dress for success

Jackson County School District Superintendent Dr. John Strycker goes the extra mile to help some special needs students dress for success as they transition into the workforce. What you wear is very important when you go for a job interview and Jackson County School District Superintendent Dr. John Strycker wants to make sure his students are prepared so he decided…

Walmart arson suspects still at large

Authorities are still searching for the alleged arson suspects who caused fires in two Mississippi Walmarts. Mississippi Crime Stoppers is offering a $7,500 reward for the incidents that occurred May 27th, 28th and June 4th. Two fires were previously reported in two Alabama Walmarts May 27th and May 28th. In Mississippi, near Highway 49, fires were set inside a Gulfport…

Mississippi Aquarium offering weekly eco-tours throughout June and July

Last Friday the Mississippi Aquarium partnered with Ship Island Excursions to launch their new eco-tours. It’s a 90-minute voyage where you’ll learn about the wildlife and unique ecology of the Gulf Coast. “I liked seeing the dolphins in the water. I don’t really see this that much because I don’t live in Mississippi. I live in Wichita, Kansas.” The dolphins…

Shuckers Ethan Small continues assault on Double-A hitting

While Mississippi State heads off to the College World Series without Ethan Small, the former MSU ace is still pitching just as well in the month of June as he did with the Oma-Dawgs. On Saturday, the fourth ranked prospect of the Milwaukee Brewers dazzled in a home game against the Mississippi Braves, throwing a career best six-and-a-two-third innings with…

USM’s Reed Trimble earns NCBWA All-America Honors

In Hattiesburg, Southern Miss baseball standout Reed Trimble is a freshman All-American for the second time over, courtesy of the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, less than a week after taking home the like from Collegiate Baseball. Playing in his first full season due to COVID-19, Trimble held a share of the team lead for batting average with Gabe Montenegro,…

George County alum Logan Tanner shines in Starkville Super Regional

The Starkville Super Regional wasn’t decided by one person or play, but one person did make one huge play in Monday’s do-or-die game three. Paging Logan Tanner. In the bottom of a six run second inning for the Bulldogs, Tanner blasted a three-run yard sale blast over the 385 in left center at Dudy Noble Field. His team leading 14th…

Gulfport soccer’s Kate Smith named Gatorade Player of the Year

Big time players make big time plays in big time games. There’s no bigger game than the 6A state championship, no bigger play than the game winning goal and now no bigger player than Gulfport’s Kate Smith, your Gatorade girls soccer player of the year for Mississippi. Four months after shoving one upper 90 and leading the Lady Admirals to…

‘Paint a Rock, Save a Life’ at the Pascagoula Senior Center

JE Social and Service Club assisted Singing River Health System and Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency with a special initiative to help spread awareness across the Coast to Donate Life Mississippi. Girls apart of JE Social and Service Club packed the Pascagoula Senior Center to learn more about how organ, eye, and tissue donations save lives. MORA Community Outreach Coordinator Trisha…

Preparations underway for the Gulfport City-Wide Juneteenth Celebration-

With Juneteenth just a few days away, the Gulfport City-Wide Juneteenth Celebration Committee is making their final preparations for the weekend-long community event. Starting Friday there will be events throughout Gulfport celebrating the day in history which signifies the end of slavery, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. Saturday morning, the entire community is welcome to attend the…

Live poker returns to Boomtown Friday

Boomtown couldn’t keep their poker face for long! Live poker is back. Live poker returns to their property this Friday, June 18th at 9 a.m. The new poker room will be located on the second floor of the casino, which is entirely non-smoking. Boomtown General Manager Michael Pendergast says, “We’ve heard from many of our patrons that they’d like for…

Pet of the Week

It’s time again for our Pet of the Week segment. Today we have Maridee Mallette from the Jackson County Animal Shelter in studio. Tags: jackson county animal shelter, pet of the week

Coast Young Professionals: Managing the Message

Nine days from now, Coast Young Professionals is hosting a networking event called ‘Managing the Message.’ Here to tell us a little more about that is Ashley Butsch with the Mississippi Gulf Coast Chamber of Commerce. Categories: Community Headlines Tags: Coast Young Professionals, Managing the Message

Singing River Health System events this week

Singing River Health System will be holding vaccination events this week in Harrison County. The first will be Wednesday between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Singing River will be distributing first doses of the Pfizer vaccine at Pass Christian High School. On Thursday, SRHS will be at Biloxi High School in Spirits Arena to administer more first Pfizer doses. Singing…

Starkville Super Regional: Mississippi State vs. Notre Dame

As far as first impressions go, it doesn’t get much better than Mississippi State Head Baseball Coach Chris Lemonis in the post-season having started his run at MSU with nine straight wins in NCAA Regional and Super Regional Games dating back to 2019. But that record now stands at 9-1 after dropping game two of the Starkville Super Regional to…