St. Stanislaus has a new head football coach, but he is a familiar face to the Rock-a-chaw program. Former SSC assistant coach Tim Lala becomes the seventh head football coach at SSC since the 2000 season. He comes to Bay St. Louis from Pascagoula High, where he served as the strength coach, special teams coordinator, […]

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The “Southern Six” will be well represented this weekend as 21 teams compete to advance to next Tuesday’s South State championship matches. There are seven head-to-head matchups involving teams from the 228 Sports coverage in the six most southern counties of South Mississippi with five of the matches involving squads from the same division. Boys’ […]

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The George County boys remained on pace to secure the top seed in the upcoming Region 8-5A tournament with a 69-52 win over visiting Vanleave Tuesday night. The Lady Rebels made it a clean sweep on the evening with a commanding 49-21 win over the Lady Bulldogs to open the night. The 17-point win by […]

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There have been numerous postponements in both prep basketball ad prep soccer for Tuesday’s action as well as some cancellations of other hoops games in the “Southern Six”. We will try and keep you updated on our social media site on both our Facebook page as well as our Twitter account of all of that […]

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The “Southern Six” had an impressive showing over the weekend in the opening round of the MHSAA soccer playoffs.  19 teams joined the 13 division winners in the second round.  Round two was scheduled to be played Tuesday but similar to the weekend, several teams moved up their games to Monday night to get ahead […]

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The annual “HoopsFest”, for many years one of the most acclaimed prep basketball events on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, returns this weekend but in a bit of a different form and in a new arena as well. The “2023 South Mississippi Hoopsfest” features six contests, five boys and one girl’s game,  beginning at 11 a.m., […]

The boys’ teams from both George County and Picayune as well as the girls’ squads from both Gautier and West Harrison each maintained their unbeaten and top-spot status atop their respective Class 5A regions Friday night. In Hurley, the visiting Rebels stopped home-standing East Central 59-34 as GCHS moved to 4-0 in the Region 8-5A. […]

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Historic Mineral Springs Park in Iuka has a history of healing…from its waters.

In the early 1800s, Chief Iuka of the Chickasaw had been suffering from chronic ailments for many years, his tribal healers unable to help him, when he heard of the magical healing waters. Carried by his followers to the springs, the chief drank the waters and quickly regained his health. He moved his family to the area and never left. His experience was well-known to people up and down the valley.