New Orleans developers Jim and Catherine MacPhaille are counting on the strong ties between Bay St. Louis and the Big Easy to attract buyers for their new beachfront project playfully named The Recess Club. It’s seven houses on six acres with shared recreational amenities geared toward quick family getaways. Several years ago the couple bought [...] [...]
THE COST OF LOSING Good football teams create good business— by Clay Chandler GULF COAST Oyster harvesting in full swing— by Lisa Monti PERS Fixed share key for boosting funded ratio— by Ted Carter TRANSPORTATION River at Greenville likely to drop farther with Mo. River impoundment— Ted Carter REAL ESTATE New Orleans developers look to [...] [...]
by Lisa Monti Published: November 20,2012
Tags: Bay St. Louis, Democrats, Gulf Coast, gulf of mexico, Hancock County, James Carville, Mary Matalin, Mississippi, Mississippi Business Journal, Pete Fountain, republicans
The property that so many Bay St. Louis residents knew as New Orleans musician Pete Fountain’s place now belongs to a couple well known for their politics. Political commentators and consultants James Carville and Mary Matalin have bought the Beach Boulevard property and plan to build a home there starting early next year. It will [...] [...]
A municipal harbor, a project that’s been talked about here since the 1980s, will finally get under way when construction begins mid November. Mayor Les Fillingame is among backers who believe that the $21.1 million recreational harbor will come to define the city’s waterfront and revitalize the downtown that was wiped away by Hurricane Katrina. [...] [...]
The couple who is resurrecting the landmark Bay Town Inn on the beachfront here hopes to be welcoming guests by midsummer 2013. Nikki and John Moon celebrated the inn’s ground-breaking Oct. 19 with city officials and well wishers who joined in a champagne toast to the long-awaited project. “It’s been three years since I applied [...] [...]
HEALTHCARE Hospitals worry rejection of Medicaid expansion would increase burden of uninsured care— by Ted Carter BANKING State’s bankers make plea for scrapping Basel III— by Ted Carter GULF COAST $21.1 million recreational harbor, downtown facelift will redefine Bay St. Louis waterfront— by Lisa Monti BRINGING BACK BAY TOWN INN Couple to resurrect bed and [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: August 28,2012
Tags: Bay St. Louis, BILOXI, Florida Keys, Gov. Bobby Jindal, Gov. Phil Bryant, Gov. Rick Scott, Gulf Coast, gulf of mexico, GULFPORT, hurricane, Hurricane Isaac, Louisiana, Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, National Hurricane Center, New Orleans, St. Charles Parish, tropical storm isaac, weather Mississippi
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — A tow truck driver was killed this morning in Pearl River County when a tree fell on his truck, the first death in Mississippi from Isaac. The death of the unidentified driver on a Picayune street came during heavy rain and wind from Isaac, said Pearl River County Emergency Management director Danny [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: August 27,2012
Tags: Bay St. Louis, BILOXI, Florida Keys, Gov. Bobby Jindal, Gov. Phil Bryant, Gov. Rick Scott, Gulf Coast, gulf of mexico, GULFPORT, hurricane, Hurricane Isaac, Louisiana, Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium, National Hurricane Center, New Orleans, St. Charles Parish, tropical storm isaac, weather Mississippi
GULF COAST — Hurricane Isaac is lashing New Orleans as it approaches and pushing flood waters over a rural levee south of the city, where authorities believe some people may be trapped. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the storm’s center early this morning was about 50 miles south-southwest of New Orleans and moving slowly. [...] [...]
BAY ST. LOUIS — Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann has asked a judge to dismiss two lawsuits over beach front property involving in the ongoing Bay St. Louis marina project. Hosemann filed the motions in Hancock County Circuit Court. The city of Bay St. Louis has joined in the motions. A judge has not ruled [...] [...]
Al Jensen worked as an oceanographer at the Naval Oceanographic Office at Stennis Space Center for 37 years. When he retired in 2003, he pursued a long-time interest in baking bread. “I was baking bread for parties for four or five years before I retired,” said Jensen, who with his wife, Vivian Jensen, owns Serious [...] [...]
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