Check Your Smoke Alarm This Weekend
The State Fire Marshal’s Office (SFMO), a division of the Mississippi Insurance Department (MID), recommends checking smoke alarms in your home this weekend. Falling back to Standard Time early …
Read MorePublic university students offered free tele-mental health services
Special to Long Beach Breeze
The department of psychiatry and human behavior at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC), in collaboration with the Mississippi Institutions of Higher …
Read MoreKara’s Sights & Bites: 24 hours in New Orleans: Action-packed visit culminated with moving museum experience
By Kara Kimbrough On paper, spending a mere 24 hours in New Orleans doesn’t compute. There’s so much to see and experience in a city filled with hundreds of restaurants, attractions, venues and one of the nation’s largest museums, The National World War II Museum. But…I’m not like most people. With a little guidance from…
Read MoreApplications open for U.S. Senate youth program
Special to Long Beach Breeze
Mississippi high school juniors and seniors with student leadership roles are encouraged to apply for the 2025 U.S. Senate Youth Program (USSYP).
The esteemed …
Read MoreTrendy skin products can cause rashes in pre-teens
By: Annie Oeth, UMMC Office of Communications and Marketing
The skin care advice of social media influencers and beauty bloggers may leave pre-teens and young teenagers with rashes and …
Read MoreSeabees use skills to fortify Long Beach Food Pantry
By Toni Miles
They’re trained by the U.S. Navy to build, whether it’s constructing roads, bridges, bunkers and even airfields at sites both foreign and domestic; however, local …
Read MoreSaturday In-Person Absentee Voting Begins; Upcoming Elections Deadlines
Circuit clerk offices will be open from 8:00 a.m. to noon for in-person absentee voting this Saturday, October 26, 2024.
The last day to vote in-person absentee is Saturday, November 2, 2024, on …
Read MoreCoffeeTime: “When work becomes a pile of cold ashes”
Send any responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com Ever created your own mess, and then had to try for a couple of days to find a way out of it? Ending up stressed out, and physically exhausted. Exhaustion then causes you to be mentally hazy, so you don’t think clearly enough to be able to solve your problem. And…
Read MoreScouts BSA Troop backpacks on the Pacific Crest Trail
By Guest Columnist Tommy Carroll
Boy Scouts of America High Adventure Troop 321 from Long Beach spent part of their summer travelling to Washington and backpacking on the Pacific Crest Trail.
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Read MoreIt’s Time for Fall/Winter Vaccinations to Fight Respiratory Viruses
We are approaching what is historically the respiratory virus season. The Mississippi State Department of Health encourages everyone to get appropriate updated vaccinations to avoid severe outcomes such as hospitalization and death. The rates of respiratory viruses such as influenza, RSV (respiratory syncytial virus) and COVID tend to increase during the fall and winter months…
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