Get ready for some fresh seafood.
If you’re in Starkville or Columbus, it’s time to get on Facebook to get your hands on some fresh catch from the Gulf.
Gulf Seafood Connection, based out of Pass Christian, will be coming up to Starkville and Columbus with fresh-caught seafood on a weekly basis. The company runs its orders through a Facebook group. Gulf Seafood Connection has been catching and selling fresh shrimp, fish, oysters and crabmeat since 1977.
All you have to do is join either the Columbus or Starkville Gulf Seafood Connection Facebook page. Gulf Seafood Connection director Michael Broussard posts on each group when, where and what he’s selling a few days before he arrives in Starkville or Columbus. All customers have to do is see what Broussard will bring to town and comment how much seafood you want to buy. Broussard will then post where he will meet customers, typically at a local business, and you pay once you pick up your orders.
If you’re itching for some gulf shrimp, check out the Facebook pages to make your orders.
Also in Starkville, Starkvegas Snowballs is opening a second location at 113 B Martin Luther King Dr.
Owner Doug Cater first opened up shop in a trailer on Highway 12 in 2015. Two years later, he opened up at 216 Lummus Dr. Cater said hopefully by July 1, its second location will help ease pressure from the popular Snowball stand near the Cotton District.
“We are expanding. Business is just growing,” Cater said. “Our goal is to take some pressure off of Lummus. The thing that resonates for me the most is how the locals and our customers have been so wonderful to continue to patronize our business. We just love our customers.”
Both stands will be open from March to October every day from 2-7 p.m. Cater added with the new location on Martin Luther King Dr., customers will have more parking and outdoor space. The new location will also house the stand’s main office and renovations are underway.
Over in Columbus, there’s a new insurance agent on Highway 45.
Kristin Tate with Alfa Insurance, 3908 Hwy. 45, is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m., offering auto, home, life and business insurance.
AHI Auto-Home Insurance moved from Brickerton to 402 Wilkins Wise Road Suite 6 last week.
Andy Hubbard, who started the insurance agency, said he partnered with Rusty McCrory and outgrew his office in the Brickerton shopping center.
AHI is open by appointment and Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
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