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North Gulfport Middle School graduate starts athletic scholarship

Mississippi Gulf Coast Camellia Society plants camellias at Beauvoir

Historic Black community fights military project on Coast land fouled by arsenic, lead

Historic Black community fights military project on Coast land fouled by arsenic, lead Anita Lee, The Sun Herald Feb. 8 One last time, residents of North Gulfport have mustered to fight development of Mississippi State Port Authority property contaminated with lead and arsenic. Three residents, the Anointed Temple A.O.H. Church of God and the nonprofit North Gulfport Community Land Trust are appealing a state decision to permit discharge of storm water from construction on the north port property, which is surrounded by hundreds of homes in predominantly Black neighborhoods. Residents fear lead and arsenic will seep from the site into neighborhood ditches and area streams, including Turkey Creek. Port officials say the lead and arsenic pose no risk because they have been contained under a clay cap that the development will not disturb.

Black community wants to fight road plan. Can Biden help?

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) A community coalition is appealing to a new federal.

Volunteers help clean up Gulfport for MLK Day

In Gulfport, volunteers spent this Martin Luther King Jr. Day beautifying the city. Extend a Hand Help a Friend organized a community clean-up.