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Biloxi Blues is the story of army recruits during World War II training at Keesler Field, the present-day Keesler Air Force Base. Biloxi is the setting of several John Grisham novels, including The Runaway Jury (1996), The Partner (1997), and The Boys from Biloxi (2022). A substantial portion of Larry Brown's novel Fay is set in Biloxi.
The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (MDMR) is a state agency of Mississippi headquartered in the Eldon Bolton State Office building in Biloxi, Mississippi. It was created by the legislature as a new state agency in 1994 to manage Mississippi's coastal resources through the authority of the Commission on Marine Resources (CMR).
St. Patrick Catholic High School was named the best Catholic High School in the state of Mississippi by Niche in 2019 and has held that honor since in 2020 and 2021. [4]In 2019, St. Patrick Catholic High School was added to the U.S. Department of Education's list of Blue Ribbon Schools.
Its county seats are Biloxi and Gulfport. [2] The county is named after U.S. President William Henry Harrison. [3] Harrison County is part of the Gulfport-Biloxi metropolitan area. The county was severely damaged from both Hurricane Camille on August 17, 1969, and Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005, causing catastrophic effects.
WGCM-FM (102.3 FM, "Coast 102"), is a classic hits formatted radio station based in Gulfport–Biloxi, Mississippi, United States. The station is owned by Lisa Stiglets and Elizabeth McQueen, through licensee JLE, Incorporated.
Hancock County is part of the Gulfport–Biloxi, MS Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is situated along the Gulf of Mexico and the state line with Louisiana. The area is home to the John C. Stennis Space Center, NASA's largest rocket engine test facility.
It is south of Interstate 10 and is bordered by the CDP of Gulf Hills to the east, Biloxi Bay to the south, and the city of D'Iberville to the west. According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 5.1 square miles (13.2 km 2 ), of which 4.2 square miles (11.0 km 2 ) are land and 0.85 square miles (2.2 km 2 ), or 16.84 ...
Community management has been a popular strategy utilized in African water management, but research has shown that Africans often don't prefer this management style. [11] Main problems of community management, specifically related to water management, consist of potential maintenance issues, population issues, money collecting issues, and a ...