Area News

By Toni Miles       South Mississippi is revving up as the 29th Annual Cruisin’ the Coast (CTC) event gets ready to roll out October 5 through 12 this year.   “Cruisin’ the Coast always brings incredible energy to Long Beach,” says Long Beach Community Affairs Director Courtney Cuevas-Welch. “From the classic cars to…

  U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced eligible livestock producers will receive disaster recovery assistance through the Emergency Livestock Relief Program for 2023 and 2024 Flood and Wildfire (ELRP 2023 and 2024 FW) to help offset increased supplemental feed costs due to a qualifying flood or qualifying wildfire in calendar years 2023 and…

                                                              L to R: Alexis Griffith and Jackson Pearce                Three Mississippi students have been named 2025 U.S. Presidential Scholars. The students are Alexis Griffith of Long Beach High School, Nichols E. Katsaboulas of Jackson Prep, and Jackson Pearce of Gulfport High School. On Sept. 26, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon announced…

By Guest Columnist Renee Rayburn, LBPL Youth and Technology Services   Hello Long Beach!  Here is what’s happening at the Long Beach Public Library next month! On September 27, from 6 to 9 p.m., the library will be having a Sock Hop at the Long Beach Recreation and Senior Center to raise funding for new…

Special to Long Beach Breeze     Long High School band director Zac Cannon was recently named assistant concert director for the Mississippi Lion’s All-State Band for summer 2026. School officials say that the appointment “reflects Mr. Cannon’s outstanding leadership and dedication to music education — not just in Long Beach, but across the entire…

By Toni Miles     Crews continue to pave the way towards completion of the City of Long Beach’s 3rd Street Sidewalk Project.   Framing work for the project began back in early July, and visible work continues to be seen eastward on 3rd Street, as workers continue to lay the foundation and concrete for…

  Fourth graders at Pass Christian Elementary School have been hard at work exploring the fascinating world of weather through hands-on experiments designed to spark curiosity and deepen  understanding. As part of their science unit, students modeled the water cycle using water sealed in Ziploc bags, observing evaporation, condensation, and precipitation in real time. The…

  The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) School of Leadership will host the fourth annual Southern Miss Cruisin’ on Monday, Oct. 6, from 3 to 5 p.m. on the Gulf Park Campus South Lawn in Long Beach. The event is free and open to the public. Attendees are encouraged to bring their vehicles and lawn chairs for…

By Toni Miles         Here I – we – go again!   It was just another sweltering South Mississippi summer day – you know, the kind that envelops you in sweat from the time you walk out the front door to your car in the driveway.   The mission – to push…