By Hank Zuber Every morning, more than 11,000 Mississippians pass through the gates of Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula. They are master welders, pipefitters, electricians, and engineers building the backbone of the U.S. Navy. From Jackson County, these skilled...
Sparklight®, a leading high-speed internet and mobile provider, is accepting applications for its Fall 2026 Charitable Giving Fund, offering nonprofit organizations across the company’s 24-state service area an opportunity to apply for a grant. KEY FACTS...
by Frank Corder, Magnolia Tribune The only privately-owned U.S. foundry certified for large-scale Navy propeller manufacturing broke ground Tuesday on a third Center of Excellence (CoE3) at the Bird-Johnson Propeller Company facility in Pascagoula. The...
NASA tested RS-25 engine No. 10001 on Oct. 21 on the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Test teams fired the developmental engine for almost eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds), the same amount of time RS-25...
by Frank Corder, Magnolia Tribune The U.S. Navy has awarded Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula a $99 million contract modification to conduct sea trials for the Zumwalt-class destroyer Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG 1002). “This award reflects the Navy’s...
by Frank Corder, Magnolia Tribune Mississippi Export Railroad has been awarded a $35.5 million grant through the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Railroad Administration’s Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (CRISI) Program....
