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This plaque honoring Janie Agnes Little, mother of the man who paid to have the attractive brick sidewalk pictured laid around the Charleston courthouse, has again been defaced.
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This plaque honoring Janie Agnes Little has again been defaced.

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Sad to see desecration
By CLAY MCFERRIN - Editor and Publisher, Charleston Sun-Sentinel
Fri,02/27/26-11:39AM , 1,810 Reads
Yet again, someone has defaced an attractive plaque on the grounds of the Tallahatchie County Courthouse in Charleston that simply reminds the public of a son's great love for his mother.
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Rosalyn Elise Williams
Fri,02/27/26-2:53PM , 1,380 Reads
Joel and Celeste Williams of Charleston are pleased to announce the birth of their first child, a daughter, Rosalyn Elise Williams, born Wednesday, January 28, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford.
She weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces, and measured 18 inches in length.
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Puppies peer out from behind wire at the Charleston animal holding facility on Friday, Feb. 27, 2026. Located off Murphy Road in southwest Charleston, the facility has been in operation since last fall.

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Charleston animal holding facility still trying to find its groove
By CLAY MCFERRIN - Editor and Publisher, Charleston Sun-Sentinel
Fri,02/27/26-4:30PM , 1,145 Reads
The Charleston animal holding facility, located off Murphy Road in southwest Charleston, is brimming with canines, most of whom have been dropped off there by residents.
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Genevia Smith
Fri,02/27/26-3:25PM , 703 Reads
CHARLESTON — Genevia Smith, age, 79, passed away Thursday, February 19.
A celebration of life service will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, February 28, at Rocky Branch Missionary Baptist Church near Charleston, with interment following in Rocky Branch Cemetery.
Clark-Williams Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.

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Trump endorses behind the meter

Readers may recall that Kelley Williams and I have written extensively about all the new Mississippi data centers, especially the huge one in Madison. Our beef is that these data centers will consume more electricity than all the other grid customers combined. Who is going to pay for this?

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