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Long Beach History: Glad Farm Property’s storied roots

By Beth Hanson (March 25, 1942 – March 4, 2024)     Harper McCaughan is one of the City of Long Beach’s Founding Fathers, but his brother, William, first owned the property known as the Glad Farm Property, located where North Cleveland Avenue is today, and east of it, too.   Later, the land would…

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Main Street hosted Commercial Development Possibilities Tour

Long Beach Breeze   Long Beach Main Street, in partnership with Mississippi Power, hosted a Commercial Development Possibilities Tour in Long Beach on October 1, from 3 until 7 p.m.   The event was designed to give potential investors, developers and entrepreneurs the opportunity to explore available properties and envision the future of their businesses…

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CoffeeTime: Don’t just quickly apologize

Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com     You know you stepped in it. Big time. Didn’t really mean to do it, but it happened. Now your spouse is hurt and angry. And they are not really waiting breathlessly to hear your apology – they’re way past that. Seeing you hanging by your bleeding ears from a dead…

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Toast to the Coast Celebrates 75 Years of Coast Episcopal School

Toast to the Coast, the Mississippi Gulf Coast’s signature dining, art, and entertainment gala, will celebrate 75 years of academic excellence offered at Coast Episcopal School.  A Diamond Jubilee, the 42nd annual fundraiser for the independent school located in Long Beach will be held at 845 East Scenic Drive, Pass Christian on Friday, October 17, 2025. Coordinated…

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Long Beach Coastal Cleanup set for October 18

Long Beach Breeze     It’s not unusual to spot folks on the beach, even in the fall, but, come October 18, the Long Beach shoreline will be filled with volunteers all set on one mission – to pick up trash and debris along the Long Beach shoreline.   Mississippi Coastal Cleanup has designated Long…

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Kara’s Sights and Bites: It’s fall…can apple baked goods be far behind?

By Kara Kimbrough     Finally, it’s fall…the all-too-fleeting season that brings only a few cool days in the south in between heat spells and cold weather. Instead of thinking about ways to incorporate pumpkin spice into everything from coffee to bread, I’ve been dreaming about apples. When fall arrives, there’s nothing more satisfying that…

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Toast to the Coast to host Diamond Jubilee event Oct. 17

Special to Long Beach Breeze   Diamond Jubilee, the theme of this year’s Toast to the Coast, will return for its 42nd year on Friday, October 17.  The Mississippi Gulf Coast’s signature dining, art and entertainment gala will be celebrating the 75th year of Coast Episcopal School (CES) and is the school’s major annual fundraiser.…

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