Alright, parents! School is about to be out for the summer, which means that somewhere in this glorious, sun-drenched state, a precious Mississippi child will soon be the first to utter those dreaded words: “I’m bored!”

Twelve years ago, they were wide-eyed curious children in kindergarten at Resurrection Catholic Elementary School (RCES). Now, they are the…

Class 6A has existed in the Mississippi High School Activities Association for 14 seasons. And a school from the “Southern Six” has never won a state baseball championship in the largest classification in the state during that time. And now, the Gulfport Admirals are the final team on the diamond with a chance to break […]

The last time the St. Stanislaus baseball team made it to the South State finals was in 2015, when the Rock-A-Chaws went on to win the Class 4A state championship. And now, SSC certainly hopes that the same scenario reproduces itself some eight years later. St. Stanislaus earned a trio to the Class 3A South […]

VANCLEAVE — It all comes down to this. After an action-packed first inning, Vancleave hung on to beat West Jones 5-4 on Saturday night. That win ties the series at one apiece with a win-or-go-home game three on Monday in Soso. West Jones slipped past the Bulldogs 4-3 at home on Tuesday night to open […]

Defending Class 5A state champion East Central kept its hopes of a repeat live at home in Hurley Saturday night. The home-standing Hornets held off a scrappy bunch from Picayune 5-1, in the third and deciding game of that best-of-three Southe State semifinal series before a large and vocal crowd. The win thrusts East Central, […]

Something about the name burrowing wolf spider just doesn’t sound right, right? We know wolf spiders as creatures that actively…

Resurrection is returning to the Class 1A South State championship series for the third consecutive season. The defending state champs dispatched Enterprise-Lincoln Friday night 7-4 just outside of Brookhaven to wrap up a two-game sweep in the third round of the Class 1A South State playoffs. The Eagles have now won 15 straight games. Resurrection, […]

While the Class 5A South state finals situation will be decided Saturday night, the last remaining Class 4A team from the “Southern Six” saw its season come to an end Friday night. In Class 5A, Picayune forced a third and deciding game with defending stat champion East central with a 7-4 win in Pearl River […]

For the first time in school history, the George County Lady Rebls are headed to the Class 5A fast-pitch softball state championship finals. Head coach Kasey McCann’s crew dethroned defending South State champ East Central in a span of four hours with a pair of wins Friday at two different venues. First, the Lady Rebels […]

It’s Teacher Appreciation Week!  And even though I am a retired Mississippi public school teacher, this week always makes me…

Webster’s dictionary defines the word “timely” as “done or occurring at a favorable or useful time; opportune. The right time”. But one doesn’t have to read the description, you could just go see Gulfport play baseball. Gulfport has won 11 out of its last 12 games on the baseball diamond. But the Admirals’ biggest victory […]

So, I received an interesting phone call a couple of months ago. Dan Lee, president of the Jackson County Historical…

Since retiring from the Ocean Springs School District, Dr. Robert E. Hirsch has become a best-selling author of six historical…

PASCAGOULA, Miss., May 12, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — HII’s (NYSE: HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division hosted a signing day ceremony Thursday…

When Dr. Robert E. Hirsch landed his first teaching job at a Catholic school, he was a wide-eyed, hippy dreamer.…