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ENID — Sylvia Joyce Beardain, age 83, passed away Saturday, May 23.
Visitation will be held 1-2 p.m. Wednesday, May 27, followed by funeral services at 2 p.m. at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. Newsom Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
She is survived by her daughter, Angie White of Marks; sons, Joey Patterson of Cumby, Texas, Derek Beardain of Enid; 8 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.
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The city of Charleston has been awarded $600,000 in Community Development Block Grant Public Facilities funds to make needed improvements to the municipality’s aging sewer system.
Gov. Tate Reeves revealed Monday that, in all, $23 million in funds had been approved through the Mississippi Development Authority for public facilities projects in cities and counties around the state.
Charleston Mayor Sedrick Smith Sr. said funds will be used on “a long-awaited sewer project that we’ve been planning,” adding, “We’re really excited about it.”
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The familiar strains of “Pomp and Circumstance” will fill auditoriums in Tallahatchie County this week when Charleston High School and West Tallahatchie High School conduct 2026 graduation ceremonies.
CHS commencement exercises will get underway at 6 p.m. Friday, May 22, in the Morgan Freeman Auditorium on the Charleston campus.
The WTHS commencement program begins at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 23, in the school auditorium in Webb.
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Shannon Sharp, right, from the Center for Research Evaluation at the University of Mississippi, was the guest speaker for the Charleston Rotary Club on May 13. Sharp, who is pictured with Rotarian Ray Clolinger, met with Rotarians to better understand the assets, capacities, needs and barriers to successful education and workforce development in Charleston. Her visit was at the request of the SonEdna Foundation. (Photo by Dana Clolinger)
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Where are you seeing progress in Charleston right now?
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Haven Rose Dukes and Scottie Little graduated from kindergarten Friday night at North Delta School in Batesville.
Joanna Pullen graduated from K4 kindergarten and her daddy, Sam Pullen, will graduate May 22. Sam will then be a nurse practitioner. He passed his boards and will be working at the clinic in Charleston for TGH.
Faye Hartley is so proud of her three grandchildren who made all A’s for the year. Highest in History, Writing and Math. Also, Mclendon had all A’s for AR award. Way to go!
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As I sit here and ponder the years past, I feel a bit of melancholy as well as somewhat of a remorseful and penitent emotion deep down inside.
I am approaching yet another trip around the earth this week and at my age I am so thankful for this opportunity. So many of my close friends and kin have moved on to their everlasting home and I know I am blessed.
The sad feelings come from my wanting to finish my ever-wanting bucket list.
Oh, I have completed quite a good many items, but some go unfinished.
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The Agricultural Land Easement (ALE) is an option that can be used to protect native grasslands.
To establish an ALE, the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) works with a land trust to fund the purchase of a permanent easement from a landowner in exchange for a cash payment. The ALE is an essential tool for land-owners interested in maintaining agricultural uses of their properties in perpetuity.
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We hope you will join us in Oakland on Memorial Day at noon at the James Riley Swearengen Walking Track and Park as our Oakland Area Lions Club kicks off our America250 Mississippi grant with a memory walk recognizing those who have died during military service.
Cassaundra Pipkin and the Oakland Area Lions have put together a simple, respectful and beautiful service which will include current and retired military members. All who have family or friends to recognize will have a chance to speak and to walk with a card carrying the name of the person being recognized.
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The Mississippi Youth ChalleNGe Academy, located at Camp Shelby, is the premier alternative education program for 16- to 18-year-old youth who are struggling in school or no longer attending.
With a focus on job training, social skills and self-discipline, ChalleNGe is a nonprofit high school diploma-producing academy designed specifically to meet the needs of high school dropouts and at-risk youth. It is a part of the Mississippi National Guard Youth Challenge Program.
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State-certified 4-H Shooting Sports instructor Raymond Radcliff, of near Charleston, looks on as a 4-H'er ejects a shell while firing at a sporting clay target at the shotgun range during the May 2 district Shooting Sports competition near Charleston.
The 2026 Northwest District 4-H Safe Archery and Firearms Education and Training for Youth (S.A.F.E.T.Y.) competition, aka 4-H Shooting Sports, was held at the Tallahatchie County Fairgrounds and adjacent former youth league athletic fields east of Charleston on Saturday, May 2.
Hundreds of youngsters, 4-H coaches, parents and other family members from 15 northwest Mississippi counties participated in the event, including members of the local Tallahatchie Sharp Shooters 4-H Shooting Sports Club.
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The Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics Mississippi made a stop in Charleston Monday, May 4. Pictured from left are Jeff Radix of the Biloxi Police Department, Charleston Mayor Sedrick Smith Sr., Leroy Powell, Demarkel Echols and Ryan Buckley. (Photo by Vanisha Powell)
, From left, Ryan Buckley, Charleston Mayor Sedrick Smith Sr, Leroy Powell and Demarkel Echols run with the Special Olympics Mississippi torch on George Payne Cossar Boulevard in Charleston on Monday, May 4. The local run was part of an annual statewide activity to help raise awareness and funds for Special Olympics Mississippi.
The Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics Mississippi made a stop in Charleston on Monday, May 4.
Local law enforcement officials and others participated in the event, taking turns carrying the Special Olympics Mississippi lighted torch from Court Square, along George Payne Cossar Boulevard and to the eastern city limits.
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Photo by Clay McFerrin, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Charleston Elementary School art students (in front, from left) are London Ford, Ayden Daniel, Aubrianna Hill, Ahmad Lynch and Giovanni Knox. Also pictured are CES staff, CARE officials and art volunteers, and Community Foundation of Northwest Mississippi representatives. From left to right are Donna Goldman, Patsy Simmons Roberts, Chris Shove, Garren Barnes, Ricky Bradford, Stacye Trout, Dana Clolinger, Myrna Colley-Lee, Lyn Raney Hardy and Walter Shegog.
CARE (Charleston Arts and Revitalization Effort) on May 7 held an art show in the Charleston Elementary Multipurpose Building to showcase the talents of students who attended their on-site art program in the school.
Twenty students in the first-grade class of Garren Barnes have been participating in the monthly program since November 2025.
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Tallahatchie County in March bore the unlikely distinction of having tied with Rankin County for the lowest rate of unemployment in the entire state, according to a monthly report from the Mississippi Department of Employment Security.
That agency’s statistics list the rate of unemployment in both counties at 2.9% for March, having dropped from February’s 3.5% in Tallahatchie and 3.2% in Rankin.
In March, 159 Tallahatchians were unemployed, and 5,232 employed, from a labor force totaling 5,391.
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Belhaven University of Jackson has announced local spring President’s and Dean’s List honorees for Adult, Graduate and Online program students.
Named to the President’s List, for having achieved a 4.0 GPA, are Everica Nash of Charleston and Jermyron Rice of Tutwiler.
On the Dean’s List, with a GPA of 3.4 to 3.99, are Ambresha Bridges of Glendora and Rykiesch Thomas of Webb.
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Saturday May 16
New Hope Cemetery memorial set
On Saturday, May 16, New Hope Presbyterian Church Cemetery, located at 1724 New Hope Road, Scobey, MS 38953, will have their annual memorial service and business meeting followed by a potluck dinner. The service is at 11 a.m. followed by the business meeting and lunch. For information, contact William Earl McCammon at 662-647-7541.
Donations for upkeep and maintenance of New Hope Cemetery are appreciated any time and may be sent to New Hope Church Cemetery, P.O. Box 723, Charleston, MS 38921.
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The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, along with state and local officials, faith-based organizations, volunteers and private sector partners, continues to respond to the severe weather that struck the state’s Pine Belt May 6-7.
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I hope all you ladies had a wonderful Mother’s Day. The weather was perfect.
Your writer and David’s visitors during the past week and over the weekend were Susan Bell of Caledonia; A.W. Taylor and Gale Taylor; Trudy Simmons; Brad, Frankie and Bradley Holliday; and Donna Garripoli, Jason Beavers and our grandson, Junior Dukes. Y’all come back now, ya hear!
Sunday afternoon, David and I visited with great-grands Haven, Rose and Waylon Jr. I took them some of my birthday cake, and after we left there, we went across the road and visited with Diane Dukes and daughter Terri Pullen.
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MADISON — In recognition of the vital role hospitals and health care professionals play in the well-being of Mississippians, state leaders have officially proclaimed May 10-16, 2026, as “Hospital Week” in Mississippi.
Proclamations were issued at the Mississippi Hospital Association’s (MHA) request by Gov. Tate Reeves, Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann and Speaker of the House of Representatives Jason White.
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Ivy, oak and sumac are innocuous words until you put the word “poison” in front of them.
Poison ivy, poison oak and poison sumac contain a potent oil, urushiol, which can cause an aggravating, itchy rash in those sensitive to its effects.
It is doubtful that anyone reading this article hasn’t had some sort of history with these plants, so let’s look at some of the myths surrounding them.
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