Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, for connected technologies in business and smart homes. The grant is an Applied Technological Education grant and will allow Gulf Coast to train technicians for both the residential and commercials fields. The grant will also focus on the recruitment of women and other underrepresented groups to Information Systems Technology programs at MGCCC.

Many people are turning to the kitchen as a way of dealing with being inside for so long. If you haven’t noticed, social media is flooded with images of the creative things people are doing.

Tea from backyard plants is a change of pace.

Love true crime and crime dramas? Podcasts, documentaries, 48 Hours, Dateline, Law & Order, Criminal Minds – you know who you are. If you’re looking for something new to watch during this social isolation period, there are some great new – and old – crime shows to binge.

Mississippi State mechanical engineering students have turned a conventional truck toolbox into a device that will sterilize face masks for the university’s John C. Longest Student Health Center staff. 

Listen to some great local Mississippi talents. Here is a list of five rocking Gulf Coast bands.

Singing River Electric crews worked through the night on Sunday, April 12, to restore power locally to nearly 3,000 homes and businesses.

In the depths of a social-distance-quarantine, things can get pretty bleak. Very real fear and anxiety, not to mention the more mundane challenge of existential boredom.

The Salvation Army, Mississippi Gulf Coast, is increasing efforts to meet needs caused by COVID-19. The Salvation Army Kroc Center is serving lunch to children 0-18 years old this week, Monday – Friday at noon, in a drive-through fashion.

Many of our best restaurants are still open, but there is a new normal. Inside dining is a thing of the past, at least for a while. Curbside, takeout and delivery is what is happening now. To be sure, it is a struggle for the restaurants, but most are doing their best to keep the kitchen going, and, what almost every chef I talked to said, keep their employees getting a check.

Go ahead! Eat you some yard greens.

During World War II, almost every citizen worldwide had some form of a Victory Garden to help support the war effort. Coronavirus outbreak has been compared to a war.

The new “norm” of education has taken a different path, but through technology, teachers are still able to educate and connect with students.

Lowe’s Home Improvement in Gautier has made life-protecting donations to the City of Gautier first responders amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Mississippi State student with a growing interest in cancer research has been selected to receive the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship.

Ten Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College students were named to the Phi Theta Kappa All-Mississippi Academic Team.