Moss Point News

He was recently named Mississippi Small Business Person of the Year. He and his wife, Deanna, made their first trip to Washington, D.C., last week to attend the National Small Business Week Conference .

As the 2011-12 school year concludes, Moss Point School District has made grade strides in overcoming obstacles, and has been recognized as one of the top school districts by several organizations across the state of Mississippi.

This Memorial Day Weekend, Audubon is reminding Gulf Coast residents to take care with Mississippi's original "beach babies," rare and declining species of waterbirds that nest on Gulf Coast beaches and barrier islands.

According to building permits that have been issued from January 2011 through this month from the Jackson County Planning Department, as well as from planners from the surrounding municipalities, there are few church constructions under way.

The Forts Lake/Franklin Creek Volunteer Fire Department has plenty of activities planned for the family at its open house Saturday.

Tania Whitfield, left, president of 1st Ever A.L. 1992 Ambucs, and Jerry Walters, right, commander of Gautier-Vancleave Post 1992 of the American Legion, presented Patrick Peterson, center, of Fairhope, Ala., with the cycle.

Traffic is backed up this afternoon on Interstate 10 eastbound between the Gautier-Vancleave exit and the 62-mile marker because of several fender-benders, authorities said.

The Jackson County Board of Supervisors is hard at work on a variety of building, economic development, quality-of-life and recreation projects this calendar year, they said.

New construction, multiple infrastructure projects and recreation upgrades are in the works in Moss Point, according to Mayor Aneice Liddell.

American Legion Post 243 and the Ladies Auxiliary will hold a Memorial Day celebration at 11 a.m. Monday, May 28, at the Post Home, 4400 Elder St.

The April report issued by the Department of Revenue is for March sales. The tax was paid to the state in April and will be diverted to individual cities in May.

MOSS POINT, Miss. -- This town's new $3.2 million City Hall is slated to open in early July nearly seven years after Hurricane Katrina flooded the old administrative offices.

A Memphis-based civil rights organization will be in the city soon to investigate community complaints that an abnormal number of Moss Point residents are being diagnosed with cancer.

I wish the Gautier police would patrol a little more in these north residential areas.

Last June, when former city schools Superintendent Dr. Del Phillips climbed into his red truck and drove away from the district's central office, the search began for his successor.

Meals will be provided from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. starting June 4 and going through July 27 at the Jefferson Street Head Start Center, 5343 Jefferson St.

Moss Point aldermen awarded a $75,000 emergency repair contract this month to a Brookhaven company to help the city catch up on repairing leaky gas lines.

An additional $175,000 will come out of the city's general fund this fiscal year to finance annexation, thanks to city leaders approving a budget amendment at a Tuesday night meeting.

City aldermen Tuesday night declared two major sewer line leaks an emergency and voted to award a $113,000 contract to Don M. Barron Contracting Inc.

In celebration of its 90th anniversary, Mississippi Export Railroad Company has established the Mississippi Export Railroad Gulf Coast Scholarship Endowment with a gift of $50,000 to the University of Southern Mississippi Foundation.