Gautier News

Sixty-five children attended the 2nd annual Gautier Bicycle Safety Rodeo, a day of fun-filled safety education, held on Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College's Jackson County campus.

"Grace Independent Baptist is a church that loves families and desires to seek the lord in all we do," Perkins said.

Gautier Police Chief Dante Elbin accepts the first "Golden Cat Award" from Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann Wednesday in the Gautier Municipal Court.

Small businesses in Jackson County will have their chance to shine at the fifth annual Anchor Awards in August, hosted by the Small Business Issue Manager Group of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce.

St. John's and St. Pierre's Episcopal Churches, sponsored the event that took place at St.

The Gautier Police Department has won the coveted Golden Cat award from the Secretary of State's Office and LeadsOnline, an online investigative database used to track transactions from scrap yards, second-hand stores, pawn shops and similar businesses in and out-of-state. Gautier won the award, complete with a $1,000 grant to the Police ... (more)

Republican Charles "Rusty" Anderson will face 18-year-old Libertarian candidate Zackary Redmond on June 4 to decide the Gautier Ward 4 City Council race.

The second annual Gautier Bicycle Safety Rodeo, a day of fun-filled safety education, is scheduled Saturday, May 18, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the north parking lot at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College's Jackson County campus.

Jackson County Law Enforcement took part in the Special Olympics Torch Run . Law enforcement officers, fire fighters, and others began the run in Moss Point at Pelican Landing on Thursday.

In fact, at least three of our four municipalities will have new mayors after Moss Point Mayor Aneice Liddell and Gautier Mayor Tommy Fortenberry did not survive challenges in the primary.

The Special Olympics of Mississippi torch made its way through Jackson County today, with stops in Gautier in Ocean Springs en route to Keesler Air Force Base, where the annual State Summer Games will be held this weekend.

One hundred sixty-nine students in the Top 10 percent of their graduating classes throughout Jackson County received scholarships during the 23rd Explosion of Excellence at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College in Gautier.

Fortenberry said the city has retained counsel to file an answer to the union's lawsuit in Jackson County Circuit Court.

Gautier Ward 2 incumbent Councilman Hurley Ray Guillotte defeated his opponent Natasha Rankins but he had to wait for the absentee/affidavit ballot count this morning to decide the only Gautier City Council seat so far.

Coast mayors have lost re-election bids and incumbent city officials are locked in tough battles with challengers as votes are still being counted.

Gautier will have a new mayor after June 4th's general election, as Gordon Gollot defeated incumbent Tommy Fortenberry in Tuesday's Republican primary, with Gollott receiving 1,037 votes to Fortenberry's 807.

Pascagoula School District officials confirmed two teens believed drowned in the Pascagoula River on Sunday are PHS football players Caleb Sweeten and Brandon Rich.

Most every time an election comes around, we get on television and remind you it's time to go vote.

Judy Davies of Gautier has been selected as the Mississippi Poetry Society, South Branch Poet of the Year and was presented a plaque by Patricia Butkovich, also of Gautier at the statewide Mississippi Poetry Society meeting at Gulf Hills in Ocean Springs.

Don't let that be what you're saying Tuesday night -- "If only I had bothered to vote" -- after the polls are closed, the winners are celebrating their victories and the losers are being consoled.