This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Mississippi Book Festival. The festival has spent a decade contributing to Mississippi’s literary legacy, transforming the capitol into a literary hub that unites authors and readers for one day each year. Over the...
By Jim Beaguez On an unseasonably crisp September evening in 2021, clusters of local residents, Ole Miss students and visitors from at least as far as California made their way to the Square in Oxford. As the temperature dipped into the fifties and slid downward into...
By: Gary Pettus and Annie Oeth Eric Lucas Jr., who was 10 at the time, was on the road with his father, an emergency medicine physician, when a truck went into a slide, shot skyward and flipped over their car. “We almost got killed,” Lucas recalled many years later....
Victoria “Vickey” Moore began her career at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) over 24 years ago as a computer scientist with a master’s degree from Mississippi State University. Today, she is the associate technical director of the...
The Mississippi Gulf Coast Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Hancock Chamber of Commerce, Ocean Springs Chamber of Commerce, and Jackson County Chamber of Commerce will announce the recipients of the 2024 One Coast Awards on Tuesday, April 16, 2024 at the...
By Susan Marquez If you’ve driven on Highway 49 in the past 40 years, chances are you have noticed Shady Acres Village. Once a small produce stand, the business has grown into much more than a roadside stop. It’s a place where travelers can get a scoop of ice cream or...
