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2 ♦ SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2000
NEWCOMERS GUIDE 2000
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Publisher welcomes newcomers to town
BY ELLIS C. CUEVAS
It isn't that I haven't ever gone anywhere. I take off from time to time, to travel. I have been across this country, to foreign ports, to the Holy Land and Egypt.
But I have never called any other place home. I really could not wait to get home during my three years serving our country in the United States Army.
Hancock County has
been my home all my life and what might seem the routine and common place to me, I know, must be new and exciting and sometimes confusing to the newcomer.
As I say a lot, I am a local yokel, while at the same time feel that you are as local as I am, because you chose to live here. (I know, too, that if you are working for Uncle Sam, that may be a different story).
It is for that reason, and because we are a hospitable group by and large, that we are publishing this newcomers' guide to let you know some of the things we know, and maybe you haven't yet heard about.
We boast a little about our history, and we have included descriptions of current events. We've tried to introduce you to city and county officials and where to go to register to vote, get your car tag and to renew your drivers licenses.
There is a quick reference guide for contacting all of the county and city services like water, gas, sewer, garbage, fire and police pro-
tection.
There is a calendar of annual events and highlights to some of our more popular activities like the International Food Fest, Cruisin' the Coast, Voices of Hope Peace Fest, A Place of Art, the Crab Fest, St. Rose de Lima Fair, Mardi Gras, and our Chamber of Commerce Red Ribbon Parade.
We have listed schools and administrative contacts and some of the health services available throughout the county.
Our purpose, since you are now at home, is to help you feel really at home, to help you make a home where you’ll come to meet us all face-to-face along the way. We encourage you to join in community activities, find a place to worship and celebrate, be active and ask questions, and, most of all, let us get to know you.
We know that we live in a great county here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Our newcomers are the ones who really help us be the great community we are.
The Sea Coast Echo prominent in Hancock County’s long history
BY ELLIS CUEVAS Editor and Publisher
The Sea Coast Echo's lengthy Hancock County history began with its first publication on January 9, 1892, in Bay St. Louis.
The first Echo publisher was G.B. Moreau, and the newspaper was owned by Moreau and W.L. May, who was leasing the neighboring Pass Christian Coast Beacon.
May shortly sold his interest to A.G. Osoniach, a city editor of the Gulfport Daily Herald, who in 1897 sold his interests to Moreau.
During its 100 plus years of operation, The Sea Coast Echo only missed two publication dates.
The first issue to be missed was in 1918 when the publisher's daughter and newspaper's linotype operator both succumbed to a plague. Hurricane Camille in 1969 also caused the paper to miss one issue.
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Echo was among the first Mississippi newspapers changing to the offset method of printing. The first offset press was . a Harrisson, one on which four pages were printed at one time.
The Echo published once a week until going twice weekly in October 1975, with Thursday/Sunday publication days.
The Golden Anniversary publication of the Echo was being printed in 1942 when Moreau, owner and publisher, died.
In 1897 The Sea Coast Echo began publication of the Pearlington Herald, serving a western Hancock County community involved in lumber operations.
The Pearlington Herald was in publication for several years with Sam Gray as manager and editor. Moreau, in the Golden Anniversary Edition, stated the Pearling-
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