Jackson County Tourism Commissioners Issue Statement Regarding Resignation Of Milton Segarra
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Jackson County Tourism Commissioners issue statement regarding resignation of Milton Segarra

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The three commissioners representing Jackson County on the Coastal Mississippi Tourism board are pushing back following the resignation announcement of CEO Milton Segarra. In a statement, Commissioners Roxy Condrey, Carla Todd, and Jim Williams say: “The Jackson County Commissioners are extremely disappointed and do not agree with the outcome of last week’s special call meeting resulting in the resignation of…

09/24 Ryan's "sunny & Dry" Friday Evening Forecast
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09/24 Ryan’s “Sunny & Dry” Friday Evening Forecast

The mid-fall like weather continues through the weekend, but will start to warm noticeably by next week.
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Don’t expect a noticeable change to our sunny & dry trend for another day or so, but it’ll get warmer and more humid going forward. Skies remain largely clear through the weekend, but more and more cloud cover is on the horizon. Only seeing light, wispy clouds this evening with an overnight low near 57 degrees and light northerly winds….

News 25 Game Of The Week: Bay High Vs. St. Stanislaus
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High School Football Preview: Bay High vs. St. Stanislaus

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St. Stanislaus has eight years’ worth of bragging rights over rival Bay High, but that could all change tonight even though SSC is no longer part of the same district. News 25’s Jeff Haeger is in Hancock County with more. Categories: Local Sports, Sports Tags: football, high school football, sports

Pt With Gulfport Pd
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PT with Gulfport PD

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If you’re looking to break a sweat Saturday morning in Gulfport you can do a workout with the city’s finest. There’s PT with Gulfport PD taking place at Jones Park. This event is put on by the Gulfport Police Department and Bandit CrossFit. The goal is to promote a healthy active lifestyle and better connect citizens to the officers that…

2021 Hummingbird Migration Festival
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2021 Hummingbird Migration Festival

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In Moss Point, the Pascagoula River Audubon Center is holding their 2021 Hummingbird Migration Festival this weekend. There’s storytelling, hummingbird banding, native plant sales, crafts, bird watching, and vendors. It’s back again tomorrow from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the gates. It’s $10 for adults and $5 for children. The event is held during this…

Pass Christian Fall Art Show
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Pass Christian Fall Art Show

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In Harrison County, the Pass Christian Art Association is hosting their annual Fall Art Show. It’ll be taking place at the city’s public library starting today and ending October 16th. The association hopes it will bring people together to admire art from across the Coast. The show will showcase a large variety of art in many different mediums ranging from…

46th Slavic Invitational Tees Off In Biloxi
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46th Slavic Invitational tees off in Biloxi-Jack

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More than a thousand golfers from around the country packed their irons and headed to the Coast for the 46th annual Slavic Invitational after the tournament’s cancellation due to COVID last year. Two-man teams will compete at five different locations on the Gulf Coast through Sunday. The invitational began nearly half a century ago as a fundraiser by the Slavic…

Butterfly Garden Opens At Keesler To Honor Fallen Soldiers
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Butterfly Garden opens at Keesler to honor fallen soldiers

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Air Force Families Forever at Keesler Air Force Base held an opening ceremony today for their Fallen Heroes Butterfly Garden. People who have lost loved ones through war look for many ways to find peace from their tragedies. Today, the Air Force Families Forever Program at Keesler opened a brand-new butterfly garden to honor their fallen heroes. This program was…

Ups To Launch Saturday Deliveries In Jackson County
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UPS to launch Saturday deliveries in Jackson County

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UPS will kick off Saturday deliveries via UPS Ground from their Gautier-based facility starting tomorrow. The facility will put five new package vehicles into service tomorrow with a celebration and a police escort to Highway 90. This means local customers will no longer need to purchase UPS Air for Saturday deliveries. UPS representatives said the expansion adds ten new jobs…

Bel Aire Elementary Honors The Life Of Former Student
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Bel-Aire Elementary honors the life of former student

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September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and Bel-Aire Elementary in Gulfport went gold in memory of Austin Guidry, a former student at the elementary school. Austin was diagnosed with cancer on January 9th, 2019 after being rushed to the hospital due to shortness of breath and severe side pain. On July 29th, 2019, just six months after he was diagnosed…

Boogie Knights Dance Tryouts
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Boogie Knights Dance Tryouts

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Boogie Knights, an all-male dance group, is forming on the Coast. Scott LeBlanc is in studio with more information on how you can become a part of these dancing kings. Categories: Local News, News Tags: Boogie Knights, Dance Tryouts

Morning Business Report: September 24th, 2021
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Morning Business Report: September 24th, 2021

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Moderna’s CEO weighs in on when he thinks the pandemic will be over and Americans will spend a record $10 billion on Halloween candy, decorations, and costumes. Jane King is in New York with those stories and more. Categories: Business Tags: morning business report

Msdh Reports 1,505 New Covid 19 Cases And 30 Deaths
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MSDH reports 1,505 new COVID-19 cases and 30 deaths

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The Mississippi State Department of Health is reporting an additional 1,505 cases of COVID-19 in Mississippi and 30 deaths. Nine of these deaths occurred between September 20th and September 23rd.  An additional 21 deaths occurred between July 18th and September 19th, identified from death certificate reports. Mississippi’s total of COVID-19 cases is now 482,902 with 9,425 deaths. Categories: Local News,…

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9/24 – The Chief’s “Gorgeous Autumn Weekend” Afternoon Forecast

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Very pleasant and comfortable conditions will continue through the weekend. With the less humid flow, morning low temperatures will continue to be a good 10 to 15 degrees below climatological lows. Afternoon high temperatures will max out in the upper 70s to low 80s this weekend. Beautiful weather will continue through the rest of the weekend into Sunday, but temperatures stair…

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9/24 – Rob Knight’s “Cooler/Less Humid” Morning Forecast

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Very pleasant and comfortable conditions will continue through the weekend. With the less humid flow, morning low temperatures will continue to be a good 10 to 15 degrees below climatological lows. Afternoon high temperatures will max out in the upper 70s to low 80s this weekend Beautiful weather will continue through the rest of the weekend into Sunday, but temperatures stair…

09/23 Ryan's "cool & Dry" Thursday Night Forecast
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09/21 Ryan’s “Cool & Dry” Thursday Night Forecast

Another cool & dry night ahead tonight, but we'll start going the other direction before long.
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Yesterday’s cold front has taken hold in South Mississippi and it is feeling good outside. In fact, it’s finally feeling as good as it looks with drier air at all levels of the atmosphere, so no more muggy afternoons for a few days. Expect tonight to be even cooler than last night with a low near 55 on the waterfront…

Mississippi State Preaching Effort Ahead Of Lsu Game
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Mississippi State preaching effort ahead of LSU game

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After coming back from 20 points down to beat Louisiana Tech by one point in the first week of the season, eventually, the law of averages was bound to bite the Bulldogs in another close game with the opposite result. As fate would have it, it only took two weeks for that to happen in Saturday’s 31-29 heartbreaker at the…

High School Volleyball: Stone Vs. Pass Christian
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High School Volleyball: Stone vs. Pass Christian

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The high school volleyball playoffs haven’t started yet, but in a way, they have for schools like Pass Christian. Basically a must-win situation for the Lady Pirates and they had to do it against first place Stone. Pirates take the second set 25-19, they also take the fourth set and then in the fifth and final set, they get it…

Maccc Football: Mgccc Vs. Hinds
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MACCC Football: MGCCC vs. Hinds

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The Mississippi Gulf Coast football program has won 21 consecutive regular season games dating back to the 2018 season. The only team that got close to knocking off the Bulldogs last year was Hinds in a 31-24 overtime thriller. Bulldogs and Eagles meeting for the first time since, third road game in the first four weeks for MGCCC. Hinds-42 MGCCC-37…

Community Covid Vaccines Available Tomorrow At Lynn Meadows
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Community COVID vaccines available Friday at Lynn Meadows

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Community COVID vaccines are available Friday at Lynn Meadows Discovery Center in Gulfport. Singing River Health System, Ochsner and Lynn Meadows partnered up to set up a vaccination event tomorrow afternoon from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Pfizer vaccines are available for children 12 and older with adult consent and Johnson and Johnson vaccines are available for anyone 18 and…

Renaissance The Runway Fashion Show At The Ip Casino Resort
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Renaissance the Runway Fashion Show at the IP Casino Resort

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The fashion event of the season was held tonight at the IP Casino. For the fifth year, the Bacot McCarty Foundation, with the help of IP and South Mississippi Living Magazine, presented its annual Renaissance the Runway fashion show to close out the Jolly season and raise money for numerous nonprofit organizations across South Mississippi. For the main event, over…

09/23 Ryan's "feeling Good" Thursday Evening Forecast
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09/23 Ryan’s “Feeling Good” Thursday Evening Forecast

Low humidity helping to make it feel as good as it looks in South MS for the next few days.
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Yesterday’s cold front has taken hold in South Mississippi and it is feeling good outside. In fact, it’s finally feeling as good as it looks with drier air at all levels of the atmosphere, so no more muggy afternoons for a few days. Expect tonight to be even cooler than last night with a low near 55 on the waterfront…

Coast Electric Power Hosts Food Trucks For A Cause
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Coast Electric Power hosts Food Trucks for a Cause

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Today in Gulfport, you could buy a lunch that gives back. Food Trucks for a Cause was hosted by Coast Electric Power as a fundraiser for the American Heart Association. Seven food truck vendors gathered outside Coast Electric on Highway 49 from 11 a.m. until all the food was gone. As a sponsor of the Gulf Coast Heart Walk, Coast…