State
COMMISSION AWARDS CITY MILLIONS FOR REPAIRING SEWER MAIN BREAKS
Northside Sun
Relief is on the way for residents along Meadowbrook Road, who for months have endured the sights and sounds of a sewer pump.
Waste contract change in Picayune to start next week
Picayune Item
Starting next week, a new contractor will begin picking up garbage and recyclable materials within the city of Picayune.
Mississippi 2017-18 deer harvest lowest on record
Clarion Ledger
The estimated statewide deer harvest for the 2017-18 season dropped below 195,000 making it the lowest harvest since the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks started keeping records in 1976.
MS Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks discusses Chronic Wasting Disease but some hunters say enough is enough.
WLBT
Hunting Season is almost here and state wildlife officials are hosting another informational session about Chronic Wasting Disease, or CWD. But is it too much?
What's the future of solar power in the Pine Belt, as two local solar farms mark their first year?
Hattiesburg American
SUMRALL — The sun is beating down on a 90-degree day at Mississippi's largest solar farm — a 52-megawatt facility located off Mississippi 42 in Sumrall.
NEW MARINE RESEARCH CENTER FOR USM IN GULFPORT
WXXV
The University of Southern Mississippi’s School of Ocean Science and Engineering has a new marine research center at the Port of Gulfport.
Coast tourism marketing plan released
WLOX
The Gulf Coast is expected to open its doors to a lot of tourists over the next few days for the Labor Day weekend.
Oil Spill
Indian Creek ramp open for business
Apalachicola Times
The Indian Creek boat ramp in Eastpoint is now open for public use.
The refurbishing of the ramp, which ran about $629,000 including engineering and construction costs, is one of six recreational use projects for the county that make up Phase III Early Restoration Projects selected by the Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) Trustees for restoring natural resources and services injured or lost as a result in Florida caused by the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Restoration project hits another roadblock
Port St. Joe Star
So much for any luck for the proposed beach restoration project.
Deputy county administrator Warren Yeager sounded pessimistic the county would receive an okay from the U.S. Treasury in the next two weeks to spend $2.8 million on a restoration project on St. Joseph Peninsula.
Opinion
ENDANGERED CITY VERSUS ENDANGERED SPECIES
Northside Sun
I arrived at the ag museum for the recent One Lake meeting about 15 minutes before kickoff. There was a long slow-moving line at the door. No tailgaters. But people were working the crowd. They were “one-river-no-lake” advocates with a handout explaining why they oppose One Lake. There are several reasons. But they boil down to: It’s not perfect.
Press Releases
EPA Seeks Input on Regulatory Approach for Managing Excess Flows
08/30/2018
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will host three public listening sessions to seek input on a rulemaking effort aimed at providing certainty surrounding the management of peak wet weather flows at certain municipal wastewater treatment plants.
