Ocean Springs News

Dale Wirtz won monthly best loser honors and earned the 20-pound loss award in TOPS MS 0281, Ocean Springs, at the chapter's June 6 meeting in the Ocean Springs Church of Christ.

The most newsworthy item to come out of what was otherwise an uneventful Ocean Springs Board of Aldermen meeting Tuesday night was a topic the mayor and aldermen didn't discuss.

Ocean Springs Police are asking the public's help in locating Chad Michael Brewster who is wanted on a felony domestic violence charge, according to Detective Captain William Jackson.

I was disappointed to read your June 11 editorial "Agencies need to sit down and amicably split narcotics task force assets."

Every year, an estimated 5 million people die as a result of tobacco use and current trends indicate more than 8 million will die each year by 2030, according to the Center for Disease Control.

Shooting for the Southern gothic whodunit film "Artists Die Better in Black" began Monday in downtown Biloxi next to City Hall.

Leaders of this city of 17,500 lowered the property-tax rate on homes and businesses by about 10 percent four years ago when city finances seemed good and there was about $1.3 million in reserve.

The Pascagoula River Audubon Center offers a fun and conservation-minded camp for students in second to fifth grades from June 17-21.

The estimated substantial completion date for the new Magnolia Middle School is now June 26, according to a consultant for contractor W.G. Yates and Sons Construction of Biloxi, but no date has been set for opening ceremonies.

Officers from the Ocean Springs Police Department responded to a burglary call at 801 Washington Ave., where it was reported Bayou Pilates, Lovelace Drug Store and the law office of Briley Richmond Jr. has been burglarized.

Ocean Springs fire fighters spotted leaks in their brand new $2.7 million fire station shortly after moving in November 2011.

The mayors of Bay St. Louis, D'iberville, Ocean Springs, and Waveland, along with 23 other mayors, are a part of a new pledge called the Mississippi Mayors' Let's Play Challenge.

The big question asked around the 17th annual Mississippi Gulf Coast Billfish Classic last weekend didn't deal with where the fish were caught.

Ocean Springs will indulge in its first ever "Dessert Crawl" next Tuesday from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at participating restaurants and cafes throughout town.

Like any good divorce proceeding, officials with the Narcotics Task Force of Jackson County and the Southeast Mississippi Metropolitan Enforcement Team need to sit down and amicably split their assets.

Ocean Springs will indulge in its first Dessert Crawl from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. June 18 at participating restaurants and cafes throughout town.

Property owners with buildings in the flood plains in Biloxi, Pascagoula and Waveland have the lowest scores and the biggest discounts in the region.

U.S. Rep. Steven Palazzo, R-Biloxi, hosted a group of supporters and community leaders Monday in his second annual Patriot Golf Classic fundraiser at The Preserve.

Amid interruptions and protests from the homeowner, the Jackson County Board of Supervisors voted Monday morning to follow through with action they started earlier this year and have a Katrina-damaged home in the Ocean Springs area demolished.

On Saturday, June 15, the Magnolia Chamber Orchestra of Gulfport and artists from The Art House Co-Op Art Gallery of Ocean Springs come together to create a milestone artistic event on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.