As students prepare to head back to school, Gulfport businesses and organizations helped equip children with some classroom essentials. Earlier this evening at Import Performance, over 100 book bags with school supplies were handed out. All of the supplies were donated by local business owners. In less than 20 minutes, all the book bags were distributed. However, with the help…
Mississippi’s increasing COVID patient numbers are causing a change in safety protocols at Singing River medical hospitals. The need to keep visitors, patients, and staff safe from coronavirus was the topic of today’s medical staff meeting. Limiting the number of visitors and guests and requiring everyone who enters to wear a mask are small but important safety protocols as the…
Last night, the Pascagoula City Council voted unanimously to allocate American Rescue Plan Act funds to address aging infrastructure in the city. The first installment of funds, which totals nearly $2.6 million, will be used to replace and relocate failing water distribution infrastructure in the 8th and 13th Street area as well as the South Fernwood and Redwood Streets area….
Rain chances are much lower across the region now that our weather pattern has finally started to change. With high pressure slowly building in from the west, we should only see a few showers and thunderstorms each day. Rain chances will be at about 20% for Thursday and Friday, going up to about 40% over the weekend. High temperatures will…
Friends, family members, and co-workers are mourning the loss of Department of Marine Resources Senior Master Sergeant Tommy Jennings. His daughter posted on Facebook on July 17th stating that Jennings was very ill and in an intensive care unit. On Tuesday, Jennings passed away from a heart attack at the age of 49. Jennings was a resident of Bay St….
The Mississippi Center for Autism and Related Developmental Disabilities is hosting a summer enrichment fun day this Friday. The children at the facility can look forward to enjoying an egg spoon race, potato sack race, face painting, and water slides. The fun day event was inspired by one of the clients at the facility who expressed wanting to get an…
Wanna take a free ride? Try transit! Coast Transit Authority is giving everyone free rides all day this coming Friday. The CTA will offer rides on all services they operate including trolleys, the beachcomber, the casino hopper, as well as its hybrid buses. CTA has been operating at about 80 percent compared to pre-COVID statistics, but their casino hopper has…
As we are in the midst of hurricane season, let’s check in on a group that’s essential to the Hurricane Center since their data narrows the cone of uncertainty. “I would say my count is probably about 30 storms in total.” “I’ve probably flown in about 12 to 15 different hurricanes.” “I have no clue. I’m sorry.” “I’m working on…
Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith announced a hefty grant to allow the University of Mississippi Medical Center to continue research for prescription opioid abuse. Last week the CDC issued provisional drug overdose death counts for 2020 which reported a 30 percent increase in drug overdose deaths in the U.S. last year. Just in Mississippi, there was nearly a 35 percent increase in…
Today, Mississippi is reporting 961 new COVID cases. This comes as the state faces an explosion that’s crippling local hospitals and a rise in delta variant infections. In a Tuesday press conference held by state health officials, they stressed the importance of vaccinations as the highly transmissible delta variant of the virus is spreading in Mississippi. State Health Officer Dr….
Girl Scout Troop 3851 is participating in Questfest, a virtual scavenger hunt for Girl Scout troops around the country. With us today, we’ve got three scouts, Abby Carroll, Taylor Douglas, and Vivi La Salle and their troop leader Jenny Carroll. They’re going to tell us what the event is and their very meaningful motivation behind participating. Categories: Community Headlines Tags:…
Joining us today to talk about how companies are rethinking recruitment and retention of employees is Kimberly Hall. Categories: Community Headlines Tags: Workforce Wednesday
Keesler Federal Credit Union is making sure kindergartners on the Gulf Coast are fully prepared for the first day of school through an initiative called Backpacks for Bright Futures. For the third year, Keesler Federal Credit Union is providing backpacks and school supplies to more than 6,100 kindergarteners in 16 school districts across the six coastal counties. Keesler employees volunteered…
In Gulfport, there will be a back pack and school supply giveaway today at 6 p.m. that is open to the community. All of the school supply items were donated by local business owners who are eager to give back to love youth. One hundred backpacks will be distributed at Import Performance on Pass Road in Gulfport. The items will…
The Naval Construction Battalion Center is exercising response, containment, and initial cleanup operations with a fuel-spill exercise today. This exercise is one of many frequent exercises to test the capabilities of the personnel and equipment onboard NCBC in regards to fuel and other hazardous waste spills. The exercise is simulated with roughly 1,000 gallons of water. The exercise is designed…
During yesterday’s meeting, the Pascagoula City Council voted unanimously to allocate the first installment of over $2 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds to address aging infrastructure in the city. The funds will be used to replace and relocate failing water distribution infrastructure serving multiple streets between Ingalls and Taylor avenues as well as other streets in the immediate…
A stalled frontal boundary from the Carolinas to southeast Texas will slowly shift north and wash out by Thursday afternoon. High-pressure over the mid-section of the country will build slowly eastward by Thursday bringing lower rain chances and a return to normal to slightly above normal temperatures by Friday. A weak disturbance off the Florida east coast will shift slightly…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Army Corps of Engineers ignored its own operating manual when it twice opened a Mississippi River spillway in 2019, causing an environmental and economic disaster in Mississippi and Louisiana, Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann said Tuesday. He spoke on the way to Pass Christian to see endangered sea turtles released after being rehabilitated in Mississippi from cold-stunning in New England, and said he…
A frontal boundary remains stalled from the Carolinas to southeast Texas, with a weak impulse of low-pressure currently over south central Louisiana. The boundary will remain stalled over the area today thus widespread showers and thunderstorms will develop along it once again. The boundary will slowly shift north and wash out by Thursday afternoon. High-pressure over the mid-section of the…
The forecast through the next day or so still remains wet and unsettled. Thursday is looking like it will be the start of a pattern change as we finally start to dry out some. There may not be a very obvious drop in rain chances on Thursday, but Friday should be more noticeable. And as those rain chances come down…
Six Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtles returned to their home this afternoon after undergoing months of rehabilitation here on the Coast. Back in December, the turtles were flown to the Mississippi Gulf Coast after being cold stunned and stranded off the Coast of Massachusetts. The Institute for Marine Mammal Studies along with help from Mississippi State’s College of Veterinary Medicine rehabbed…
The South Mississippi community is still mourning the loss of Officer Katie Cash, who died in a car accident over the weekend in Waveland. Officer Cash spent the last 11 weeks of her life learning, training, and growing to become the police officer she dreamed to become. A bell toll tribute to fallen Officer Katie Cash, the law enforcement academy…
USM’s Frank Gore Jr. is poised for a breakout season in Hattiesburg. Coming off the best season for a Southern Miss running back since 2017, all eyes are on the versatile second-year star in the making, who is even harder to tackle than he was a year ago. USM Head Coach Will Hall said, “Frank has probably added eight pounds…
If any college quarterback ever waited his turn, it’s St. Stanislaus alum Myles Brennan. After signing with LSU in 2017, he didn’t start his first career game until the 2020 season opener, only to have to win the job all over again in 2021. The former Rock-A-Chaw is locked into a position battle, this time with Max Johnson, son of…