It has been a really bad week for the ice shelves of the quickly warming Antarctic peninsula, the part of the vast frozen continent that extends northward toward South America.
Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Ocean Springs is a city in Jackson County, Mississippi, about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Biloxi and west of Gautier. It is part of the Pascagoula, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 17,225 at the 2000 U.S. Census. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the city of Ocean Springs had a population of 17,442.
The Cave Spring Community Center opened April, 2009, on the historic Georgia School for the Deaf campus. This building was constructed in 1904 at 10B Georgia Avenue as the Girls Industrial Building and Dining Hall and was renovated with Floyd County S.P.L.O.S.T. funds. The original design of the building was not changed, and the Rome Area Heritage Foundation has recognized the City for the restoration.