Hattiesburg Announces $500,000 for Sidewalk Expansion on West 4th Street
Hattiesburg, Mississippi – Late Wednesday afternoon, Mayor Toby Barker was joined by Congressman Steven Palazzo, Councilman Jeffrey George and representatives...
Hattiesburg City Council Receives FY 2021 Audit
Hattiesburg, Mississippi – On Thursday, June 30, the Hattiesburg City Council met in a special called meeting to receive the...
Hattiesburg’s First Draft of Golf Cart Ordinance Available for Review
Hattiesburg, Mississippi – During the August 1 Work Session of the Hattiesburg City Council, the first draft of an ordinance...
Hattiesburg, Convention Commission and Local Partners Announce Plans for Jaycee Park & Kamper Park
Hattiesburg, Mississippi – On Wednesday, August 3, Hattiesburg Mayor Toby Barker was joined by leadership with the Hattiesburg Convention Commissioners,...
Community Development Launches LeadSAFE Hattiesburg
Hattiesburg, Mississippi – This week, the City of Hattiesburg’s Community Development Division launched its newest initiative – LeadSAFE Hattiesburg, a...
Multi-Phased Infrastructure Improvements Announced for Midtown Hattiesburg
Hattiesburg, Mississippi – On Thursday, August 25, Mayor Toby Barker was joined by State Senator Chris Johnson, State Representative Missy...
Mayor Barker Appoints Director for Urban Development
Hattiesburg, Mississippi – On Thursday, September 1, Mayor Toby Barker announced Wiley Quinn as his director appointment for the Department...
City of Hattiesburg Presents Fiscal Year 2023 Budget
Hattiesburg, Mississippi – On Tuesday, September 6, the City of Hattiesburg held its annual budget hearing in which the administration...
Pine Belt Area Kicks-Off Bottled Water Drive for Jackson
Hattiesburg, Mississippi – This morning, Mayor Toby Barker joined Petal Mayor Tony Ducker, Lamar County BOS President Warren Byrd, Forrest...
Hattiesburg Arts Council Spotlights Two Mississippi Women Artists at Weekend Exhibition
Editor’s Note: An artwork depicted in a photo used for this article contains nudity. J.J. Foley sat in the studio...
Water Outage Notice for North 28th Avenue Corridor
FRIDAY, SEPT. 9, 2022 | 4PM RELEASE
Hattiesburg, Mississippi – Around 11 a.m. on Friday, September 9, a contractor working on the...
Hattiesburg Begins Construction on Significant Infrastructure Improvements for MLK Avenue
Hattiesburg, Mississippi – On Tuesday, October 17, 2023, Lieutenant Governor Delbert Hosemann joined Hattiesburg Mayor Toby Barker to announce the beginning of a significant infrastructure project along Martin Luther King Avenue, encompassing the replacement...
Halloween
It’s mid-October, so hopefully your kids have decided on a Halloween costume, and you’ve been able to locate the perfect one and have either pulled all of the pieces together or are waiting on...
Hattiesburg Announces Mississippi Outdoor Stewardship Grant for Sims Road River Access & Eco-Tourism
Hattiesburg, Mississippi – On Tuesday, October 10, 2023, Mayor Toby Barker was joined by representatives from VisitHATTIESBURG, the Piney Woods Conservation Group, Forrest County Board of Supervisors and Hattiesburg-area legislative delegation to announce a...
To Trick or Treat
‘Double double toil and trouble/Fire burn and cauldron bubble.’ It’s October, which means Halloween, the second largest commercial holiday in the United States after Christmas. While exciting for children who get to dress up...
To Trick or Treat
‘Double double toil and trouble/Fire burn and cauldron bubble.’ It’s October, which means Halloween, the second largest commercial holiday in the United States after Christmas. While exciting for children who get to dress up...
Breast Cancer Awareness
Breast Cancer knows no limits. No boundaries. No age. No gender. No ethnicity. It can be all encompassing. Those with a family history may expect it, while others never see it coming. October is...
Breast Cancer Awareness
Breast Cancer knows no limits. No boundaries. No age. No gender. No ethnicity. It can be all encompassing. Those with a family history may expect it, while others never see it coming. October is...
Hattiesburg Parks and Recreation Takes Home Four Statewide Awards
Hattiesburg, Mississippi – The City of Hattiesburg’s Parks and Recreation department took home four awards across a variety of programs this week from this year’s annual conference for the Mississippi Recreation and Parks Association.“These...
Double Murderer, Frederick Allen, Sentenced to 60 Years Day-For-Day.
Frederick Allen, who pled guilty to murdering Joseph Lee Thames Jr. 46, and Nakieta Lashawn McCarty, 29, in July for the December 16, 2021 double murders, was sentenced today at 10:00 a.m by Forrest...
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