The Mississippi Department of Education today announced the 2024 Mississippi Administrator of the Year (MAOY) is Anita Wansley, principal at Northeast Elementary School in the Lauderdale County School District (LCSD), and the 2024 Mississippi Teacher of the Year...
Mississippi Public Broadcasting will host a special screening event for “WZZQ the Movie,” on Friday, May 17, beginning at 6 p.m. The event, held at the MPB auditorium at 3825 Ridgewood Road, will also feature a reception and Q&A with filmmaker Ann...
Charles Shows is the newest Mississippi State Hospital (MSH) police officer to graduate from the Mississippi Law Enforcement Officers’ Training Academy (MLEOTA). He graduated with Class #273 on March 21, 2024. But Shows is no stranger to MSH, he has worked in...
Special to The Mississippi Monitor Less than one percent of Americans currently serve in the military, enabling the rest to enjoy freedoms often taken for granted. The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) Center for Military Veterans, Service Members, and Families...
Governor Tate Reeves, Attorney General Lynn Fitch, and Public Safety Commissioner Sean Tindell will co-host the Second Annual Mississippi Public Safety Summit on May 20-22, 2024, at The Refuge in Flowood, Mississippi. “The Mississippi Public Safety Summit is a...
The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) Gulf Coast Civic Chorale invites audiences to experience Joy! an invigorating concert celebration with performances at two venues on the Gulf Coast. Led by Dr. Jonathan C. Kilgore, Assistant Professor of music and Associate...
The Independent Community Bankers of America® (ICBA) today announced that Robbie Barnes, President, and CEO of PriorityOne Bank was re-elected to serve as Chairman of the ICBA’s Consumer Financial Services Subcommittee. ICBA is the nation’s voice for community banks...
Special to The Mississippi Monitor William Carey University has made a home on the Mississippi Gulf Coast for almost fifty years. It all began in 1976, when Carey purchased the former Gulf Coast Military Academy property in Gulfport. Known as “Carey on the Coast,” the...
By Bob Garver After last week’s heavy, serious, ultraviolent “Civil War,” I needed a movie like the lighter, sillier, also ultraviolent “Abigail.” Is this film as intelligent and thought-provoking as last week’s offering – a film that still rules the...
By: Jeremy Pittari, Magnolia Tribune Starting in July, Mississippi’s high school students will have another option to meet their foreign language curriculum graduation requirement – sign language. Authored by State Senator Angela Hill (R), SB 2339 was signed into law...
After months of harmonious planning, the Be in Good Health Symposium and Gospel Choir Competition is happening Saturday, April 27 from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Jackson Convention Complex. The first-of-its-kind event, sponsored by the Mississippi State Department of...
By: Magnolia Tribune Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula will host its inaugural Boy Scout Merit Badge Day on Saturday, providing invited scouts to choose from eight areas of interest and earn two badges. Over 100 scouts and scout leaders from the Pine Burr Area...
Ray Keith of Clarksdale loved making life better for others, and now, long after his death, at age 94, he still is. A retired postal service worker and a long-time member of the National Guard, he enjoyed making things work again, when he wasn’t making them soar. “He...
Do they bother you? Do walls and fences cause claustrophobia in you? How about locked doors and gates? Do they bring about a fierce need to find the key and escape? The obvious answer for most of us is, “Well, it depends. Am I trapped inside those barriers, or...
The Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum will host its Night on the Town event from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 4, 2024. General admission is $40 for presale and $50 at the door. Mississippi Agriculture & Forestry Museum Foundation Member...
By: Sarah Ulmer, Magnolia Tribune Mississippi House and Senate conferees assigned to work on the Medicaid expansion bill, HB 1725, met for a public conference meeting on Tuesday. The intent was to open a dialogue between the chambers aimed at reaching an agreement to...
By Magnolia Tribune The Mississippi Enterprise for Technology, or MSET, and the Aerospace and Defense Alliance of Mississippi, known as ADAM, are partnering with Ole Miss to present the second annual Mississippi Aerospace and Defense Symposium, April 30-May 2. The...
By: Jim Beaugez, Magnolia Tribune The Saenger Theater in Hattiesburg, the centerpiece of the Hub City’s downtown renaissance, has written its own comeback story as a live-performance venue after nearly a century in the business. But just six years ago, the former...
By Kara Kimbrough Saying anything negative about local supermarkets goes against my beliefs. The 12+ years I worked for a supermarket chain still rank near the top of best work experiences of all time (flying around in the private jet didn’t hurt) and gave me a...
By: Danny Barrett Jr. Photos By: Melanie Thortis/ UMMC Communications Their experiences say it all when it comes to job satisfaction for Children’s of Mississippi nurses Elaine Hobson and Nikki Cowan. “Historically, we’ve had a culture revolving around quality care...
