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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 the vote. In Ward 3, Kevin Wade beat out Doug Walker Wineki in the alderman election. Residents will...

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, meaning whoever wins on Tuesday will be Ocean Springs’ next mayor. Both candidates were out M...

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 based on helping the needs of their customers. Together, the company’s CEO, COO and supply distrib...

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 50 percent plus one needed to win outright, they headed for a runoff. While both candidates may be R...

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 in what is now the Mary C. O’Keefe Cultural Arts Center. From there he would work his way up the l...