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Kenny Holloway wins Ocean Springs mayoral election Ocean Springs will have a new mayor sworn in this summer after Kenny Holloway won the primary runoff election. (Source: Kenny Holloway) By WLOX Staff | April 27, 2021 at 8:51 PM CDT - Updated April 27 at 8:51 PM OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (WLOX) - Ocean Springs will have a new mayor sworn in this summer after Kenny Holloway won the primary runoff election. Holloway beat out opponent Melanie Allen in the runoff election, edging out with 52% of ...

Ocean Springs’ mayoral candidates make final push ahead of Tuesday runoff Ocean Springs’ mayoral candidates make final push ahead of Tuesday runoff By Tristan Ruppert | April 27, 2021 at 6:39 AM CDT - Updated April 27 at 6:39 AM OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (WLOX) - With voters heading to the polls Tuesday morning, the two mayoral candidates remaining in Ocean Springs made one final push on Monday. Republican candidates Melanie Allen and Kenny Holloway are the only ones left in the race...

Blossman Gas celebrates 70 years of business It started as a small business created by Woody Blossman back in 1951. Now, Blossman Gas is celebrating its 70th anniversary. (Source: WLOX) By Bill Snyder | April 27, 2021 at 2:40 PM CDT - Updated April 27 at 2:40 PM OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (WLOX) - It started as a small business created by Woody Blossman back in 1951. Now, Blossman Gas is celebrating its 70th anniversary. Blossman set up this company with the intent of having a family business ...

Analysis: Ocean Springs mayor’s runoff a battle of contrasting campaigns Updated 2:21 PM; OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. -- Come Tuesday night, either Melanie Allen or Kenny Holloway will become the mayor-elect of Ocean Springs, but the two Republicans arrived at this point by very different paths. The two topped a field of five candidates in the April 6 Republican primary, with Allen leading the field with 1,150 votes (35%), with Holloway garnering 901 votes (28%). With neither earning the requisite ...

Longtime Ocean Springs school chief Allen Curry dies at 86 Updated Apr 13, 2021; OCEAN SPRINGS, Mississippi -- Allen Curry, who served a remarkable 20 years as the Ocean Springs school superintendent and oversaw the greatest period of growth in the district’s history, died Saturday at the age of 86. A native of Jackson County, Curry began his career in education at Vancleave High School, but in 1962 he moved to Ocean Springs to become the first principal of Ocean Springs Junior High, housed ...

City’s plan to buy Front Beach property hits snag Updated Apr 09, 3:00 PM; Posted Apr 09, 3:00 PM Facebook Share OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. -- The City of Ocean Springs has a plan in place to buy a piece of Front Beach which has been privately owned since 1948, but that plan hit a snag when the Mississippi Legislature rejected the City’s funding request. City aldermen had given grants administrator Carolyn Martin approval to submit an application for Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA) ...

South Mississippians, it’s almost time once more to grab your voter ID or other form of acceptable identification and make your way to the polls. Nearly five months after a huge push to get voters out to the polls for the presidential election, cities across South Mississippi will be holding primary elections for city leaders […]

Ocean Springs mayoral candidates speak at public forum Ocean Springs mayoral candidates speak at public forum By Tristan Ruppert | March 12, 2021 at 7:33 AM CST - Updated March 12 at 7:34 AM OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (WLOX) - Dozens of candidates spoke Thursday night as to why they should be a part of the new administration to lead the City of Ocean Springs forward. A public forum was held for candidates running for office in the Discovery City to talk about their platforms. While the forum ga...

Second woman arrested after being accused of trying to sneak drugs to inmates     BAY MINETTE, Alabama (WALA) — Authorities have arrested the second woman connected to a case earlier this month when two women were accused of allegedly leaving drugs for an inmate outside of the courthouse in Bay Minette. On the day of the incident, officials obtained a video showing Rebecca Ann Wills taping the package to a railing. They say the package contained Suboxone, Xanax, and meth. It was later ...

Jocelyn’s owner remembered for her food, love of family Jocelyn’s owner remembered for her food, love of family By John Fitzhugh | December 30, 2020 at 7:14 PM CST - Updated December 31 at 9:55 AM That summed up the life of the devout Catholic who had been the eldest of eight, growing up in the Depression and made her mark in life in the kitchen. She died in October of natural causes. “She loved children. She loved them,” said her daughter, Francine Mayfield-Smith. â€...