POPLARVILLE - Orientation and registration for new students attending Pearl River Community College during the 2007 spring semester will be held Jan. 4-5 on the Poplarville campus...more

POPLARVILLE — Pearl River Community College wide receiver Demetrius Byrd of Miami, Fla., and offense lineman Julius Gray of Prentiss are two of 11 MACJC football standouts who earned NJCAA All-Americian status for the 2006 season...more

POPLARVILLE - When Pearl River Community College students return to class next year, an 80-year-old landmark will be gone...more

POPLARVILLE - Pearl River Community College will host its first Women’s Health Symposium on Saturday, Jan. 20, on the Poplarville campus...more

POPLARVILLE - Pearl River Community College will be offering Cisco training classes in Poplarville and Hattiesburg early next year...more

POPLARVILLE - Pearl River Community College, in conjunction with the Mississippi Construction Education Foundation and TDWA (Twin Districts Workforce Area), will be offering construction classes early next year at both the Hattiesburg High School Vo-Tech Center and the Hancock County Vo-Tech Center...more

HATTIESBURG - Students at the Forrest County Center of Pearl River Community College got an early Christmas present with the recent opening of Java Joe’s...more

MT. PLEASANT, Tex. — MACJC state champ Pearl River’s hopes of a second national championship in three years abruptly ended here Saturday as undefeated and No. 1-ranked Blinn (Tex.) grabbed the 2006 NJCAA title with a convincing 19-9 victory over the Wildcats in the Pilgrim’s Pride Bowl Classic...more

POPLARVILLE, Miss. — The MACJC state champion Pearl River Wildcats gets a shot at a second NJCAA national championship in three years when the No. 2-ranked Wildcats tackle the No. 1-ranked and undefeated Blinn Buccaneers Saturday in the nationally-televised Pilgrim’s Pride Bowl Classic set for Sam Parker Field in Mt. Pleasant, Tex...more

FULTON — Pearl River’s Wildcats handed 10th-ranked Itawamba its first loss of the 2006-2007 hoops season here Monday with a 73-66 road win, while the Lady Wildcats fell 83-65 to wrap up their pre-Christmas holiday portion of their schedule...more

POPLARVILLE - When the Pearl River Community College Wildcats take the field in the Pilgrim’s Pride Bowl Classic in Mount Pleasant, Texas, two of the hometown fans will have more than a passing interest in the outcome...more

POPLARVILLE - As kickers go, Pearl River Community College’s Brad Bingham isn’t much different from kickers on the major college or the professional football level...more

NEW ORLEANS, La. — Pearl River’s Lady Wildcats pounded Delgado’s Lady Dolphins for the second time this basketball season here Thursday, taking a lopsided 68-44 win to improve to 6-3 overall...more

POPLARVILLE - The Fine Arts and Communication Department at Pearl River Community College will present The Carols of Christmas at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Malone Chapel on the Poplarville campus...more

POPLARVILLE — Pearl River picked up a pair of impressive basketball wins here Monday, sweeping Northeast Mississippi in MACJC women’s and men’s non-division action...more

POPLARVILLE - Rarely are the activities of the Pearl River Community College offensive line - the center, two guards, and two tackles - that closely observed. Line play generally is watched by interested coaches, concerned family members, and girlfriends...more

PERKINSTON — Pearl River swept Northwest Mississippi in women’s and men’s final-day basketball action at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Tournament here Tuesday...more

POPLARVILLE - A Pearl River Community College student recently received the highest degree of membership in the National FFA Organization...more

PERKINSTON — Pearl River’s women’s and men’s basketball teams pulled off impressive victories over East Mississippi in first-round action of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Tournament here Monday, with the Lady Wildcats dropping the Lady Lions 66-60 and the Wildcats trouncing the Lions 93-71...more

POPLARVILLE - Hundreds of Pearl River Community College students took advantage of College Day Thursday to talk with recruiters from in-state and out-of-state universities...more

POPLARVILLE - After years of a slow job market in the oil industry, an aging workforce has forced Chevron to implement a new way of attracting young employees...more

POPLARVILLE - The Spirit of the River marching band will represent Pearl River Community College in Christmas parades throughout the college’s six-county district...more

POPLARVILLE — Mississippi Delta swept Pearl River in women’s and men’s MACJC non-division basketball action here Thursday with the Lady Wildcats falling 48-41 and the Wildcats losing 62-60...more

POPLARVILLE - Pearl River Community College faculty members Stephen Richard Black of Carriere and Timothy Pulver of Wiggins recently attended the 2006 Lamplighter Conference at Holmes Community College...more

POPLARVILLE — MACJC state football champion Pearl River will get a shot at a second NJCAA national championship in three years Dec. 9 when it travels to the Pilgrim’s Pride Bowl Classic in Mt. Pleasant, Tex., to do battle with No. 1-ranked and undefeated Blinn College (Tex.)...more

POPLARVILLE — All of Pearl River Community College’s women’s and men’s basketball tip off times for its 2006-2007 home games have been changed to 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., respectively, according to PRCC athletic director and men’s head coach Richard Mathis...more

POPLARVILLE — Pearl River Community College is chartering a fan bus for the No. 2-ranked and MACJC state football champ Wildcats’ trip to the Pilgrim’s Pride Bowl Classic in Mt. Pleasant, Tex., Saturday, Dec. 9, to do battle with No. 1-ranked and undefeated Blinn College (Tex.) for the NJCAA national championship...more

POPLARVILLE - Ricky Rain of Poplarville plans to turn a hobby into a career after completing the new Web development technology program at Pearl River Community College...more

WESSON, Miss. — Carlon Hill hit Demetrius Byrd with a 36-yard touchdown pass with 44 seconds left here Saturday to propel the second-ranked Pearl River Wildcats to a 21-20 come-from behind victory over Copiah-Lincoln and claim a fourth-straight MACJC state football championship...more

POPLARVILLE — Pearl River split with Itawamba in women’s and men’s MACJC non-division basketball action here Monday...more

Pearl River Community College will be offering a new welding class, beginning Monday, Nov. 27, at the Purvis Vo-Tech Center...more

POPLARVILLE - Pearl River Community College women’s softball coach Leigh White feels confident about her 2007 team following six weeks of fall workouts and exhibition games...more

POPLARVILLE — The three-time defending state football champion Pearl River Wildcats will be shooting for a fourth-straight title Saturday in Wesson when they do battle with the Copiah-Lincoln Wolves in the MACJC title bout at 7 p.m. in H.L. Stone Stadium...more

POPLARVILLE — The 2006 Lady Wildcat Fall Fast-Pitch Softball Clinic is set for Saturday, Nov. 11, in Lady Wildcat Stadium here on the Pearl River Community College campus...more

POPLARVILLE - Pearl River Community College art major Jenna Thrash of Poplarville recently took first place in the mixed media category at the St. Joseph’s Fall Art Show and Sale...more

MARIANNA, Fla. — Pearl River’s Wildcats opened its 2006-2007 hoops season with a pair of season-opening losses this past weekend to two nationally-ranked powers in the Chipola Classic...more

SCOOBA — Pearl River split with East Mississippi in women’s and men’s MACJC non-division basketball action here Monday...more

HATTIESBURG - About two dozen companies and government agencies set up shop Friday at Pearl River Community College to recruit employees from the Forrest County Center...more

SENATOBIA, Miss. — Three-time defending state champion Pearl River has a shot at making it four in a row after disposing of North Division champ Northwest Mississippi 31-21 here Saturday in Ranger Stadium in the first round of the MACJC football playoffs...more

POPLARVILLE - Following six weeks of workouts and several exhibition games this fall, Pearl River Community College head baseball coach Jamie McMahon says Wildcat fans have something exciting to look forward to next spring...more

POPLARVILLE - Roger Knight, Pearl River Community College’s dean of business services, has been named the 2006 Outstanding Chief Business Officer for Region 9 of the Community College Business Officers (CCBO) organization...more

Pearl River Community College will be offering Emergency Medical Technician basic refresher class next month at PRCC’s Hancock Center in Waveland...more

POPLARVILLE - Several students say the quality of the early childhood education technology program at Pearl River Community College makes it worth their time to drive more than an hour one-way to study at the Poplarville campus...more

POPLARVILLE — Pearl River’s Lady Wildcats opened its 2006-2007 basketball season here Wednesday with a dominating 93-44 blowout over Delgado out of New Orleans...more

HATTIESBURG - Four career training programs at Pearl River Community College have been added to the list of those eligible for federal tuition assistance...more

POPLARVILLE — Pearl River basketball coach Richard Mathis came within a whisker of grabbing his first men’s NJCAA National Tournament berth last year when his Wildcats fell 77-73 to Northwest Mississippi in the Region 23 finals at Mississippi College in Clinton...more

HATTIESBURG - Students, faculty and staff at Pearl River Community College’s Forrest County Center donated almost 9,000 cans and packages of food Tuesday to the Salvation Army...more

RAYMOND, Miss. — Third-ranked Pearl River grabbed an MACJC post-season playoff spot here Thursday, bombing Hinds 36-7 to end the Eagles’ regular season...more

POPLARVILLE — Second-ranked and three-time defending MACJC football champion Pearl River hits the road this Saturday to take on unranked North Division champ Northwest Mississippi in the first round of the state community college football playoffs in Senatobia...more