Brooklyn News

Black Creek at Brooklyn is expected to reach flood stage by Saturday morning, Forrest County Emergency Operations Center said today.

Heavy rain is expected tonight as a low pressure system over the northern Gulf of Mexico sends very moist air into the area, the Forrest County Emergency Management Agency reports.

Damage was minimal from Tuesday's flash flood warning for the Pine Belt, but danger from flooding still lurks - especially for south Forrest County residents in areas of south Forrest County.

The oldest active volunteer firefighter in Forrest County has been honored for his decades of service to his community.

Gulfport - Services are 1 a.m. Saturday at St. John Missionary Baptist Church for Gladys Holliman, 84, of Gulfport, who died Nov.

BROOKLYN - Services are 2 p.m. Wednesday at Moore Funeral Home in Wiggins, for Gary Lee Sines, 65, of Brooklyn, who died Nov.

The emergency housing that provided shelter for so many for so long - ubiquitous homes on wheels commonly called FEMA trailers - became as much a symbol of HurricaneA Katrina's aftermath locally as blue-tarped roofs.

Mr. and Mrs. David R. Morrow of Brooklyn announce the engagement of their daughter, Heather Nicole Morrow, to Aubrey Keith Bounds, son of Mr.

The National Weather Service in Jackson has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for southern Forrest County until 6:15 p.m. today.

By her own account, opera is everything to Barbara Giancola, a former dramatic mezzo-soprano and the founder and artistic director of Opera of the Hamptons.

JACKSON - Jervis Mims of Hattiesburg was recently inducted into the Mississippi Housing Hall of Fame, the highest honor given by the Home Builders Association of Mississippi.

Hank Bounds never thought he'd attend college when he was growing up on a farm near Brooklyn, Miss.

About 300 high school dropouts changed that description of themselves during the 2008-09 academic year when they received GED certificates through the adult education division at Pearl River Community College.

The newly organized Community Outreach for Dixie, McLaurin, Brooklyn, Carnes and Camp Dantzler met for the second time on May 26.

Baxterville School Nurse Tina Anderson doesn't consider herself a hero. Still, her efforts to help save the life of the school's custodian last month are nothing short of heroic.