The second half of 2020 was just as historic for Stone County as it was for Mississippi and the nation.
In the past six months, the Stone County School District completed a historic land deal, residents voted in a Presidential election, and the community continued to deal with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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City leaders in Wiggins furled the former state flag, which flew over government buildings for over 126 years.
The Mississippi State Legislature voted to replace the flag with a new design after the death of George Floyd sparked protests and conversations around the nation. Legislators voted to retire the state flag during the summer session, and vote on a new design later in November.
Remembering Wiggins Mayor Joel Miles after death due to COVID-19 complications
Wiggins mayor dies from complications of COVID-19 By Chancelor Winn | December 14, 2020 at 6:27 PM CST - Updated December 14 at 6:39 PM
WIGGINS, Miss. (WLOX) - American flags throughout Wiggins flew at half staff on Monday in honor of Mayor Joel Miles who died on Sunday after being hospitalized due to double pneumonia just weeks after being diagnosed with COVID-19.
It’s a friendship that Wiggins City Attorney Jenny Tyler Baker said she will miss.
“It’s definitely going to be tough because we all worked with him very closely and got to know each other on a friend level,” Tyler Baker said. “We’ve lost a friend and a leader, and it’s going to be tough for a lot of us.”
South Mississippi mayor dies from complications of COVID-19 Wiggins Mayor Joel Miles died Sunday from complications of COVID-19. (Source: City of Wiggins) By Lindsay Knowles | December 14, 2020 at 9:07 AM CST - Updated December 14 at 6:25 PM
WIGGINS, Miss. (WLOX) - The mayor of a South Mississippi city has died after being hospitalized due to double pneumonia just weeks after being diagnosed with COVID-19.
Wiggins Mayor Joel Miles died Sunday at Memorial Hospital in Gulfport after developing complications from the virus.
The city posted Sunday night on Facebook announcing Miles’ death.
Miles, who was elected as mayor of Wiggins in 2013, had been hospitalized at George Regional Hospital in Lucedale but was transferred to Memorial Hospital on Friday in the hopes that he could get more specialized care.
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