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A thoughtful pause

Lynn Lofton — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:07:14 +0000

Coast cities reflect and recover with multiple projects Many residents and officials will pause to observe Sunday’s fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Among them will be mayors of the Coast’s 11 municipalities who can measure the progress of recovery by looking back at the tremendous tasks after Aug. 29, 2005. Pascagoula Mayor Robert Maxwell says [...]

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Perspective still needed five years after Katrina

Ross Reily — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:57:48 +0000

Even five years later, it’s hard to put into words what Hurricane Katrina did to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. People throw around statistics that include millions of cubic yards of debris as compared to other hurricanes. It kind of all runs together after a while. Pictures and video don’t do it justice, because many of [...]

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Small Business Spotlight: Trapani’s Eatery

Stephen McDill — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:48:49 +0000

Back to the beachfront Trapani family keeps historic business afloat; now prepares to move back and re-build on their former lot on Beach Boulevard Somebody was literally looking out for Trapani’s Eatery in Bay St. Louis Aug. 29, 2005 when a tornado spawned from Hurricane Katrina lashed out at the Gulf Coast town. Owner Tony Trapani [...]

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Small Business Spotlight: Allen Plumbing Company

Stephen McDill — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:38:03 +0000

Just glad to be here Steve Allen, owner of Allen Plumbing Company in Gulfport, may share his name with a famous television icon, but he said he doesn’t share that icon’s paycheck. Founded by his father in 1951, Allen Plumbing started out small, servicing homes in Harrison County. Long before Hurricane Katrina would devastate his [...]

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Life on the Coast: Five years of the new normal

Lynn Lofton — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:06:31 +0000

Has it really been five years since Hurricane Katrina roared across Mississippi? It’s easy to think it was just yesterday but at the same time feel it’s been 50 years since life for so many people changed. On the Mississippi Gulf Coast, things changed radically. Even a casual observer who doesn’t live here can drive [...]

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‘Cadillac of welcome wagons’

Clay Chandler — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 19:03:02 +0000

Lighthouse Park is on the way Ask Vincent Creel about the Biloxi Lighthouse Park and Visitor Center, and he gets really excited. The 25,000-square-foot complex will be the “Cadillac of welcome wagons,” Creel said. Expected to open in April 2011, the Lighthouse Park and Visitor Center’s total cost will fall somewhere between $13 million [...]

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Bringing back Central Ave.

Clay Chandler — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:50:14 +0000

In the 1970s and into the 1980s, Central Avenue in D’Iberville was a bustling corridor that connected the small Gulf Coast town with its larger neighbor, Biloxi. Businesses thrived there. According to D’Iberville’s director of community development, between 15,000 and 20,000 cars pounded the Central Avenue pavement daily, most of them carrying commuters to and [...]

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Small Business Spotlight: Scranton’s Restaurant and Catering

Stephen McDill — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:40:12 +0000

Early opening after storm inspired city Richard Chenoweth, owner of Scranton’s Restaurant and Catering in Pascagoula has been in business long enough to have been struck by lightning twice. For nearly thirty years, Scranton’s has offered delicious Gulf Coast cuisine from their signature Shrimp & Grits or Eggplant Lamberto to their seafood gumbo and she-crab [...]

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