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Alabama State graduate who mentored 2 generations dead of COVID Updated Dec 21, 2020; By Isabelle Taft The Sun Herald (TNS) and Tribune Media Services To two generations of Jackson County kids, he was Uncle Beev: James Davis, Jr., the director of the Boys & Girls Club Andrew Johnson unit in Pascagoula, and fixture at every high school football and basketball game. Though few knew the story, and some who once knew it had forgotten it, the nickname Beev dated to childhood, when he had been a skinny kid with big front teeth. The nickname was “Beaver” at first, but Be...

What was it like serving in USS Wisconsin, the Iowa-class battleship that now adorns the Norfolk, Virginia riverside as a maritime museum? Well, it was life-changing for this junior officer in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I will never forget cruising across the Singing River in Pascagoula, Mississippi in my fire-engine red Honda CRX, and seeing the familiar shape of a battleship’s bow—familiar from old Alabama museum growing up—heave into view for the first time against the backdrop of the Gulf of Mexico. Wisconsin was a 58,000-ton behemoth boasting armor over a foot thick in plac...

Coast nurse getting COVID-19 vaccine refuses to live in fear. 'I have a job to do.' Anita Lee, The Sun Herald Dec. 15—Singing River Health System is receiving the first Pfizer vaccines Tuesday afternoon on the Mississippi Coast, with 975 doses arriving in Pascagoula. One of those shots has Lacy Lancaster's name on it. She has worked for 13 years as a registered nurse in critical care. For the past nine months, Lancaster has been caring for COVID-19 patients in intensive care. Although the virus has infected some of her colleagues, and one has died, Lancaster has so far avoid...