LIST: School districts announce closures, delays for Thursday due to flooding With more rain expected, some school districts are making the decision not to have classes on Thursday. (Source: WAVE 3) By WLOX Staff | April 15, 2021 at 6:12 AM CDT - Updated April 15 at 7:08 AM
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (WLOX) - Roads are flooded across South Mississippi and officials are warning residents to stay off the road. With more rain expected, some school districts are making the decision not to have classes on Thursday.
Pascagoula Gautier School District announced Thursday morning that they would be closed today, citing the heavy flooding throughout the area and saying the decision was made out of extreme caution for the safety of students and employees.
Pascagoula-Gautier school librarians helping small Texas school district recover from fire
Pascagoula Gautier School District helping Texas students with book drive By John Fitzhugh | March 4, 2021 at 7:14 PM CST - Updated March 4 at 7:14 PM
GAUTIER, Miss. (WLOX) - Gautier Middle School librarian Rachel Williams began her career as a school librarian right after Hurricane Katrina hit. So, she knows what itâs like to be in need, and what itâs like to get unsolicited help.
âI do remember many businesses and companies donating lots of books to us,â said Williams. âAnd so I just want to pay it forward because we had somebody that helped, we can teach our kids to be the same.â
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News Briefs: MGCCC cuts ribbon on new performing arts center
Updated Feb 26, 2021;
GULFPORT, Mississippi Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College recently unveiled its new Immersive Media Performing Arts Center (iMPAC) on its Harrison County campus.
The new venue will host performances, events, conferences and meetings and will, according to the school, be the “premier performance facility on the coast and a training ground for live performance professionals.”
The center will also become the new home for the Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra, which signed an agreement with MGCCC to use iMPAC at its home. The orchestra is now is its 59th year of entertaining the Mississippi coast.
St. Martin legend Joe Barlow dies at 86
Updated Feb 20, 2021;
ST. MARTIN, Mississippi It was Feb. 20, 1968.
Now the retired St. Martin Hall of Fame coach and athletic director, Mike Perkins was then a senior high school basketball player in his native Arkansas, about to play in the local district tournament.
When Perkins took the floor, one of the officials was Joe Barlow, who had been Perkins’ coach for the previous five years before Barlow moved into administration prior to Perkins’ senior year. But Barlow had begun officiating games to remain close to the sport he loved.
As the game began, Barlow knew something Perkins didn’t. In route to the gymnasium, Perkins’ mother, father and younger brother had been killed in a car accident. The decision had been made by the adults to keep Perkins in the dark until after the game.