My Hattiesburg

Take a look at our wiki

The newest addition to My Hattiesburg is a wiki. It is basically online software that lets people collaborate to author and edit documents. We are using it so that several documents here at My Hattiesburg can be kept up-to-date with the help of the advisory board and the moderators. We have several documents up alreadyкомпютри and have plans to add more in the future. Here’s a list of some of the more important ones up at the time of this writing.

http://www.myhattiesburg.com/wiki/forum/rules– New forum rules page with clarification on several items in question recentlyhere at the forums.

http://www.myhattiesburg.com/wiki/forum/faq — New frequently asked questions page with more detail about different things in our community.

http://www.myhattiesburg.com/wiki/forum/members/rights — New member rights page with basic rights of all members who sign up here at the forums and are in good standing.

You can view the MH Advisory Board announcement and comment on changes or additions you think should be made.

My Hattiesburg Forum changes

There have been several changes in the forums section over the past few weeks.  The most recent of which was a change in the forums structure.  We have added an Oak Grove forum, as well as, made the Petal forum a main forum in our community.  We’ve also added a forum called Campus Life to cover Southern Miss, Jones County Junior College, William Carey, Pearl River Community College, and other colleges within the area.  We also now have an outdoors forum.

The My Hattiesburg council has been disbanded, and a new smaller advisory board elected to serve as representatives of the members and advise the administrator of My Hattiesburg.  You can find out about what’s going on with the advisory board and about new changes coming to My Hattiesburg in the MH Advisory Board forum.

The MH community is growing everyday, and we just passed the 2,000 member milestone a few weeks ago.   The My Hattiesburg MySpace page is also gaining popularity.  If you have a myspace account, please add us as your friend.  Thanks for all those that contribute to our community and make it what it is.  We continue to improve and appreciate any suggestions given to us.  You can contact us through our contact page if your having problems or need to contact the administration.  We also have a suggestion box forum for anyone that would like to make a suggestion that might improve our community.

IHL announced preferred candidate for Southern Miss

From the IHL web site:

The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) announced in a press conference today that Dr. Martha Saunders, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, is the preferred candidate for the position of President of the University of Southern Mississippi. The announcement was made following a meeting of the Board of Trustees, Commissioner of Higher Education Dr. Thomas C. Meredith, representatives of the Southern Miss Search Advisory Committee, and search consultant, Dr. Jan Greenwood.

“Dr. Saunders is a visionary, with the experience needed to lead the University of Southern Mississippi now and into the future,” said Trustee Robin Robinson, chair of the Southern Miss Board Search Committee. “The Board and Search Advisory Committee were blessed with a tremendous applicant pool, and we are confidant that the search process has led us to the best candidate for president of Southern Miss.”

A short bio is as follows:

Dr. Martha Dunagin Saunders is Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, the first-ever woman to hold the position. During her tenure, she has brought the campus together with a widely inclusive strategic planning process; hosted a successful Higher Learning Commission re-accreditation review; and finalized plans for major building projects totaling $110 million, including a new University Center and a new building for the College of Business and Economics.

Prior to her appointment at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, she was vice president for academic affairs at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia, where she led an effort to create the Centers of Excellence to further the academic outreach of more than 30 private-public partnerships. She was on the leadership team for a successful $100 million capital campaign, led the campus strategic planning process, and developed several initiatives to increase student enrollment, recruit and retain outstanding faculty and staff, improve the first year experience, and strengthen preparation of teachers in mathematics and science.

Discussion is being held about Dr. Martha Dunagin Saunders over at the forums.

Petal Forum

Due to a vote from our members, we have now added a Petal forum to our site. This will be the place to talk about news and events in Petal, MS. We also broke a new record in posts for a month with 13,992 posts in December. Thanks to all of those who continue to contribute to the My Hattiesburg Community.

We’ve also added an information forum that includes a link to our directory and several articles written about life in Hattiesburg.

Mississippi House 100 and 101 Election Results

Mississippi House 101 election results:

Harvey Fillingane 1259 or 39% of the vote

Erica McHard 777 or 24% of the vote

Joe Garvin 762

Eddie Stephenson 247

Dale Beavers 167

There will be a runoff between Fillingane and McHard on January 2nd.

Mississippi House 100 Election results:

Ken Morgan 985 or 29% of the vote

O.K. “Kenny” Moore 835 or 25% of the vote

Thomas Blakeney 642

Donovan McComb 594

Terry Montgomery 349

There will be a runoff between Moore and Morgan.

These results are unofficial.

House 101 Election results are being discussed over at the forums and a House 101 Runoff Poll is up.

Hattiesburg Police Department Accreditation

The Hattiesburg Police Department is going through the accreditation process and needs your comments/reviews. The Law Enforcement Commission on Accreditation will be taking calls at (601) 554-3601, by calling Karen Shepard at 1 (800) 368-3757, emailing calea@calea.org, or writing to 10302 Eaton Place, Suite 100, Fairfax VA 22030-2215. If your a Hattiesburg citizen, we ask that you please participate by giving an honest review of the department. The forum is discussing it at the link below:

Hattiesburg PD Accreditation

Mississippi House District 101 Election

Since Joey Fillingane was elected to the State Senate in November, there will be a special election for the Mississippi House 101 seat. There are 5 candidates that qualified for this election. Dale Beavers, Harvey A. Fillingane, Joe E. Garvin , Erica McHard and Eddie Stephenson. We currently have a few discussions running about this election on the forums. Currently, Joe Garvin has already given valuable input about his campaign. Click below for more information and to join the discussion on the district 101 election. You can also view a detailed map of the district.

Meet the House District 101 Candidates

Who will win House District 101 election?

Mississippi House District 101 Map

My Hattiesburg Forum breaking records

In the past month, we have broken several of our own records over at the forums. The most notable of which is we have broken the 1000 post per day barrier and posted 1,101 posts in one day. In addition, we’re also quickly approaching 11,000 posts in one month. We have an average of 100+ people logging in per day and thousands more reading. I’d like to say thanks for all of those involved in the My Hattiesburg Post Drive, thanks to big john for making the 10,000th post this month, and all the people that contribute to the community to make it a success.

P.S from No-Halo: Thanks to noway for being the Easter Bunny. Without his inspirational story, we might not have reached our goal.

Olive Garden comes to Hattiesburg

This is late, but Olive Garden has opened in Hattiesburg. Opens at 4 p.m. and is directly in front of the old K-Mart shopping center and across the road from Chili’s, O’Charlie’s, and Best Buy.
See the menu and get directions

Discuss it on our forums

TGI Fridays restaurant has also opened in front of Target.

See the menu and get directions

Discuss it on our forums

Hattiesburg Smoking Ban

Just to make sure this information gets out to everyone that might be affected by this. The city council has approved a smoking ban for the city limits of Hattiesburg. It will ban smoking inside all buildings accessible to the public or businesses with employees and within 15 feet of the main entrances to those buildings. This includes all bars/restaurants and will take effect on January 1st. There is a discussion on the smoking ban taking place on our forums.

Another important issue decided at this meeting was that 20-year veteran David Webster will be taking over as Hattiesburg fire chief on December 11th.