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…
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…
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…
What better way to give back than by giving away over 5,000 pounds of food? Today was first come, first serve as Gautier First United Methodist Church partnered up with ‘Feeding the Gulf Coast’ to distribute free food to families and individuals in need. It took place from 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. People were encouraged to come out and…
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…
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…
Here to tell us about the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art’s Juneteenth celebrations is Brenda Blount and Artis Burney. Categories: Community Headlines Tags: Juneteenth, Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art
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…
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…
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,…
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…
This season, the Resurrection Catholic baseball team had just one starting senior and yet still made it to the 1A State Championship series. That senior is Will Clemens, who was also a Mississippi Association of Coaches All-Star Game standout on Saturday. After going 2-2 with a hit by pitch, two runs, and three RBIs, in a 12-11 win for the…
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…
To celebrate Taco Tuesday, the Blood Center partnered with Taco Sombrero in Ocean Springs to host a blood drive. There is an urgent need for all blood types but especially O-type blood. Both patients and Blood Centers depend on donors to ensure that blood is available for life saving treatments. Those that donated blood received either a free regular crispy…
With the recent increase of gun violence among the youth in Gulfport, one community leader speaks about the steps that need to be taken to stop the violence. Extend a Hand, Help a Friend CEO Jeffrey Hulum III said, “This lawlessness has to stop. It has to stop. It must stop. And it needs to end. A young man was…
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…
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…
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…
The City of Biloxi and Harrison County are filing a claim so a developer can build a pier at Veterans Avenue. If the project is passed a pier will be built. The land will be leased to RW Development and they will fund and maintain it. The pier will be open to the public, 300 feet long, made of concrete,…
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
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 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…
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…
The 25th annual Mississippi Gulf Coast Billfish Classic wrapped up Sunday and this year’s tournament featured a new state record. A quarter of a million dollars was on the line for the boat that reeled in a more than 243-pound fish to break the Mississippi State record. ‘Tails up’ won the swordfish jackpot with a pending state record for swordfish…