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Donations being collected for LBHS students in need of prom attire

Prom night is one of the highlights of the school year, and memories from the special night are often cherished throughout one’s life time – but what about students whose families are struggling and can’t afford to purchase sparkly evening gowns or tuxedos for the special occasion? Long Beach High School students are in luck.…

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EMERGE Center opens in Long Beach

The City of Long Beach is now home to the Mississippi EMERGE Center, a vocational rehabilitation for the low vision and blind training center. Long Beach Mayor George Bass, Mississippi’s First Lady Elee Reeves and Dorothy Young, Mississippi Department of Rehabilitation Services’s (MDRS) Director of Vocational Rehabilitation for the Blind, were among those on hand…

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PCES celebrates “Music of the Culture”

The Pass Christian Middle School gym reverberated with song, dance, musical performances, excitement and even a performance by “The Supremes” in late February at “Lift Every Voice and Sing: Music of the Culture,” during this year’s annual Black History Month Program, put on by Pre-K through fifth-grade students at Pass Christian Elementary School (PCES). This…

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Students selected for All State Honor Choir

Several Long Beach High School choir members, after completing an online audition process, were selected to participate in the Mississippi Music Educator Association/American Choral Director Association All State Honor Choir, giving them the opportunity to perform with one hundred fifty other high school students from around the state. Pictured (l to r) are, front row:…

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Coffee Time: “BICKERING SNOWFLAKES”

We were created by our God to be different from each other. We all have different personalities, likes, loves, dislikes and downright detests. Unfortunately, too much of the time the detests are each other. Why? Because we see our outlook on life as the only plausible way to view life. “And the rest of you…

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