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  • 1 month ago | wlox.com | Hugh Keeton

    LONG BEACH, Miss. (WLOX) - Jeepin the Coast has turned into an annual early summer boom for Long Beach businesses. “It’s the biggest event of the year for the city of Long Beach and for us,” Coastal Daiquiri Bar and Grill owner Keith Starita said. “Every year, the numbers get bigger, bigger and bigger.”Many of the thousands of Jeepers will make their way into Keith Starita’s Coastal Daiquiri Bar and Grill, now considered Jeepin Central.

  • 1 month ago | wlox.com | Hugh Keeton

    GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - During the summer months, migrating birds make their temporary homes on the beaches of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. There are plenty of helpers making sure the least terns grow and thrive. “Being able to watch these colonies grow every year has been beautiful,” said Novalee Booth, an employee for the Audubon Delta Mississippi Coastal Stewardship Program. When temperatures start warming up, the least terns migrating from Central and South America look for places to nest.

  • 1 month ago | wlox.com | Hugh Keeton

    BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (WLOX) - This weekend, the Coast Life becomes the Pirate Life with Pirate Day in the Bay. “Once you become a pirate, you’re always a pirate,” Chuck Lizana said. “You can’t walk away from it.”Lizana doesn’t have any problems transforming into his alternate ego of a pirate. For the last ten years, when May rolls around, Lizana and about 300 members of the Mystic Krewe of the Seahorse turn Bay St. Louis into a pirate’s paradise. Pirates of all ages get in on the fun.

  • 1 month ago | wlox.com | Hugh Keeton

    GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - We could all use a little boost, and the Coast Life for a storage rental business is all about lifting spirits one sign at a time. “I like seeing that people respond by saying, ‘It gave me a lift that day,’” Handy Lock Self Storage co-owner Jim Horne said. The lift Horne is talking about is simple: it comes from driving by and reading inspirational messages.

  • 2 months ago | wlox.com | Hugh Keeton

    BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - This week marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. The American withdrawal led to thousands of Vietnamese refugees fleeing their home country for a better life. Many of them found a home on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and still continue building their family legacies. “We started from nothing, the ground up, and within a couple of decades, this is where we are now,” said Emma To, child of a Vietnamese refugee.

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Hugh Keeton
Hugh Keeton @HughKeeton
1 Jun 25

Longtime Mississippi lawyer, community leader Hugh Keating makes push for Gulfport mayor. https://t.co/DDXD7iyG4B

Hugh Keeton
Hugh Keeton @HughKeeton
24 May 25

The Coast’s tourism outlook for Memorial Day weekend and the summer. ⁦@PlayCoastalMS⁩ https://t.co/2kUtzqMv2F

Hugh Keeton
Hugh Keeton @HughKeeton
13 May 25

Coast legislators updating work at the State Capitol.

Bill Snyder
Bill Snyder @BillSnyderWLOX

That person in the viewfinder is @HughKeeton. He’s moderating today’s event. https://t.co/K8HXK72QIb