Gautier News

GAUTIER About $600,000 in renovations and improvements have been completed at Gautier City Park, which one city councilman described as an oft-forgotten asset.

GAUTIER There are fewer cluttered sheds and shelves in Jackson County today. Jackson County's Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day got an early jump start Saturday because of the number of people lined up to discard chemicals and other wastes.

Two houses in Gautier on Wind Drift Lane account for historical markers eight and nine in our series.

Coastal areas of Mississippi were under a state of emergency today as Tropical Storm Ida headed for the Gulf Coast.

GAUTIER As the health care debate rages in the nation's capital, a free clinic is filling the void for many people working, or caught between jobs, without health insurance.

GAUTIER About 350 veterans received rounds of cheers and recognition from high school students and faculty at the 10th annual Veterans Breakfast on Monday morning.

Jackson County's Emergency Management Department is strongly advising drivers to stay off local roads Monday night and to use caution Tuesday morning.

As we continue our tour of Jackson County's historic markers, we find our seventh marker at Gautier School in Gautier.

WaldenBooks, a division of Border Group, is closing two of its three remaining stores in Mississippi, including the WaldenBooks at Singing River Mall in Gautier.

A psychology expert said Thursday that Frank D. Patton was fearful of losing his family and admitted to killing his wife, Remika Chanel Patton, as she slept.

Terry Miller has owned M and M Bait Shop on Lowery Island in Pascagoula for 22 years.

GAUTIER, Miss. - Gautier Elementary teacher Maury Gusta sees parallels between his life and the lives of his students.

For several honor students and their teachers, Thursday will be one exciting day.

The Mississippi Department of Transportation will begin a $12.8 million Interstate 10 widening project Monday, which will expand the road to eight lanes between D'Iberville and the first Ocean Springs exit.

Located on Orrell Drive in Gautier, the fourth marker in our series on historic markers in our county is pending at the site of the First Henry Gautier House and actually does not as yet exist.

Six sandhill cranes have been released into a fenced area of the Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge near Gautier.

Jury selection is under way in the capital murder trial of 16-year-old Darwin Wells, accused in the 2008 killing of Michael David Porter of Hattiesburg.

The union for Hinds County school bus drivers has reached a tentative agreement with an Ohio-based bus company.

A look at crime and law enforcement news from the past week: n Biloxi resident Katie Lynn Murphy was arrested on felony charges of residential burglary, grand larceny and vehicle burglary in connection with a scam targeting elderly people in the Woolmarket area.

Gautier Fire Chief Michael Gray has been suspended with pay after an insurance audit allegedly found he'd listed his ex-wife as a dependent, costing the city nearly $140,000. Gray attorney Keith Miller denied the allegation and said he'd seek a civil service investigation if the city fired Gray.