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NEWCOMERS GUIDE 2000
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2000 • 3
.	.	...	■■	■	Echo	staff	photo	by	Randy	Ponder
Look at the pelicans!
The majestic brown pelican is only one of the many interesting species of wildlife native to Hancock County and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Prominent
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ton publication had a circulation of 400 and was profitable.
The first subscribers of the Echo were Mrs. Madeline Breath, wife of the late Judge John A. Breath; Louis J. Piernas, black postmaster of Bay St. Louis; and John Caldwell of Bay St. Louis and Ashville, N.C. The first advertiser was George Planchet, Bay St. Louis dry 1- owner.
Sea Cow- - E. / among the first to publish school notes, "St. Stanislaus Echoes," in 1900.
In 1903, the Echo moved to the corner of Beach Boulevard and State Street in a two-story building, where it remained until 1956, relocating in the old Woodman of the World Building, 112 S. Second St. The Echo moved to its current location at 124 Court Street in 1979.
When the Echo's founder died in 1942, the paper was
purchased by the A.G. (Red) Favre family of Bay St. Louis. Favre was Hancock County's chancery and circuit clerk and the paper was operated by him and his family until it was sold to Stan Opotowski in 1952. In 1955, Opotowski sold the paper to Bay St. Louis Attorney Dan M. Russell, now a United States District Court Judge. Russell sold to I Ba11'I'd 19!>6,
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followed in 1968 by three months of Milton I. Stewart and Harold E. Dohm of Minni 't*'. The lute Powell Lilas.- Jr. ■: L> ■ '	•
purchased the Ki■ in I '"-and sold to Bay St. Louis Newspapers in 1968.
The Echo is now owned by James D. Lancaster and family of Alabama, who purchased the paper with Ben Smith from Glass. Smith later sold his interest to Lancaster.
About the cover
It’s mid-February, and spring can’t wait to blossom in Bay St. Louis. The azaleas are getting a head start, and trees are starting to leaf out.
Nature is getting ready to put on an amazing display in Hancock County!
Echo staff photo by Donna J. Smith.
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