Hattiesburg Civic Light Opera (HCLO) will hold auditions for the musical Annie on Monday, August 23 and Tuesday, August 24 at Pearl River Community College's Hattiesburg campus.The HCLO is in its 35th year of providing quality family theatre productions for Pine Belt residents. Past performances have included Always, Patsy Cline, Peter Pan, and The Barber of Seville, among many others. Most performances take place at the Saenger Theatre in downtown Hattiesburg.

Several public libraries in the Pine Belt offer story times for children. These are typically geared to boys and girls ages 2 to 5. Story time usually consists of reading two or three short books and a craft, and sometimes games or snacks. This can be a fun, educational time for your little one to spend with other children and get to know their local library.

Hattiesburg Forerunners is a local sports organization for homeschool boys and girls between the ages of 13 and 18. They have basketball programs for boys and for girls and a boys' baseball team.

The Forerunners teams have competed, and won, at the regional and state levels. The boys' basketball team won the Mississippi State Homeschool Tournament in 2008. The teams compete against other homeschool teams as well as against public and private schools.