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CASCILLA — Linda Carol Jeffery Hill, age 75, of Cascilla, passed away Friday, January 30, at Tallahatchie General Hospital in Charleston.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, February 3, at the New Bethel Holiness Church, where she was a member, with Rev. James Jones officiating. Interment will follow in the Jeffery/Hill family plot at the North Shady Grove Cemetery at Cascilla. The family will receive friends from 5 – 7 p.m. Monday evening and one hour prior to the service Tuesday all at New Bethel Holiness Church.
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WEBB — Robert Allen Carter, age 65, of Webb, passed away Monday, January 26, in Memphis, Tennessee.
Visitation will be held 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Friday, February 6, at Tutwiler Funeral Home.
A celebration of life service will be held 2 p.m. Saturday, February 7, at Chapel Hill M.B. Church, Clarksdale. Interment will follow at Brooklyn Cemetery in Webb. Tutwiler Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
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WEBB — Derrick Lamont Wash, age 40, of Webb, passed away Saturday,. January 24, at his home.
Visitation will be held 3-5 p.m. Friday, February 6, at Tutwiler Funeral Home.
A celebration of life service will be held 12 noon on Saturday, February 7, at Persimmon Grove Baptist Church near Glendora. Interment will follow at Bound Memorial Gardens near Charleston.
Tutwiler Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
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OAKLAND — Jerry Wayne Lantrip, Sr. age 74, mechanic, passed away Monday, January 19, at his home in Oakland.
Funeral services were 2 p.m. Thursday, January 22, at Wells Funeral Home with interment following in the Graystone Family Cemetery at Oakland.
He was preceded in death by a son, Christopher Gray.
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MARKS — Carol Ann Ware Bryant, age 79, Certified Nursing Assistant, passed away, Monday, January 26, at Northwest MS Regional Medical Center in Clarksdale.
Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Monday, February 2, at Wells Funeral Home in Batesville. Visitation will be one hour prior to service. Interment will follow at Forrest Memorial Park.
She is survived by her husband, James Earl Bryant of Marks; three daughters, Lorie Adams of Como, Ginger Murphy of Charleston and Brandie Lavelle Chrestman of Batesville; 9 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.
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MARKS — Carol Ann Ware Bryant, age 79, Certified Nursing Assistant, passed away, Monday, January 26, at Northwest MS Regional Medical Center in Clarksdale.
Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Monday, February 2, at Wells Funeral Home in Batesville. Visitation will be one hour prior to service. Interment will follow at Forrest Memorial Park.
She is survived by her husband, James Earl Bryant of Marks; three daughters, Lorie Adams of Como, Ginger Murphy of Charleston and Brandie Lavelle Chrestman of Batesville; 9 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.
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GRENADA — James Edward Adams, age 74, construction worker, of Grenada, passed away Monday, January 26, at his home.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, January 31, at McKibben and Guinn Funeral Service in Grenada with interment following in Hebron Baptist Church Cemetery. Visitation will be held from noon until service time.
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LEVERETT — Ann Elizabeth Forrest Brasher, age 91, of the Leverett community, passed away Monday, January 26.
Funeral services will be held at noon Monday, February 2, at McKibben and Guinn Funeral Service in Grenada with interment following at Magnolia Gardens Cemetery at Paynes. Visitation will be held one hour prior to service.
She is survived by her daughter, Pat Little of Grenada; two sons, Alan Brasher of Enid and Brent Brasher of Holcomb; a brother, 8 grandchldren and 6 great-grandchildren.
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The National Weather Service has issued an Extreme Cold Warning for dangerous wind chills as low as 2 below zero forecast for Tallahatchie and several other counties in Mississippi from 9 p.m. Friday (Jan. 30) until 9 a.m. Saturday (Jan. 31).
In Mississippi, the warning includes Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Monroe, Panola, Pontotoc, Quitman, Tallahatchie and Yalobusha counties.
NWS advises to dress in layers, including a hat, face mask and gloves/mittens if you must go outside. Use caution while traveling outside.
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Photo by Clay McFerrin, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
A metal canopy outside Mr. Jiffy convenience store in Charleston crashed beneath the weight of ice buildup from Winter Storm Fern.
Damage assessments continue in Tallahatchie County in the wake of Winter Storm Fern, which brought to the area the first major ice storm since the "Great Ice Storm of 1994."
As of 1 p.m. Tuesday, large areas of the county, especially eastern Tallahatchie, including the entire city of Charleston, still were without power, and Mayor Sedrick Smith Sr. said he had been given no set timeline for restoration.
A Tuesday morning update from Entergy estimated that electrical service could remain out in some areas of the state through the coming weekend.
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The Tallahatchie County Safe Room in Charleston is pictured April 13, 2022. (Sun-Sentinel file photo by Clay McFerrin)
The Tallahatchie County Safe Room will be open to the public beginning about 3 Friday afternoon, a few hours before Winter Storm Fern is forecast to begin unleashing wintry precipitation.
The county and much of North Mississippi is under an Ice Storm Warning from 6 p.m. Friday until 6 p.m. Sunday.
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The Senate convened the 2026 regular legislative session on Tuesday, Jan. 6.
On Wednesday, Jan. 7, the Senate committed to a historic $500 million stabilizing infusion to the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) with the passage of Senate Bill 2004, the Mississippi PERS Stability Act. It also dedicates an annual $50 million appropriation to PERS through 2036.
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There are several species of whales found in the Gulf of America. The two most sighted are: the killer whale (orca) and the sperm whale.
In the summer of 2008, four large pods (schools or herds) of killer whales were spotted approximately 125 miles southeast of Pasca-goula, Mississippi, by a group of people aboard the Shady Lady Charter Boat. While any sighting of a killer whale is rare, it is even more unusual that several groups of them would be spotted at one time.
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Teachers, parents, grandparents and all others who interact with students, begin now to get your K-12 students ready to enter the 2026 Fish Art and Essay Competition sponsored by the Mississippi Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks and the Marine Foundation. The host site for the competition is the Bob Tyler Fish Hatchery Visitor Education Center.
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A Tallahatchie County grand jury in the 1st Judicial District at Charleston recently returned an indictment charging Amber Nicole Dogan with first-degree murder in the shooting death of her uncle.
Dogan, 19, of 724 School St., Clarksdale, allegedly shot Curtis Cortez Taylor, 44, once in the neck at Taylor’s 226 Holly St., Charleston, residence shortly after midnight on Jan. 21, 2025.
The following persons were named in other indictments handed down during the December grand jury session, according to records on file at the circuit clerk’s office in Charleston:
By Clay McFerrin - Editor and Publisher, Charleston Sun-Sentinel on
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SENATOBIA — Tickets went on sale Jan. 14 for the Northwest Mississippi Community College Foundation’s premier fundraising event, the “Northwest Soiree: A Garden Gala,” presented by Mini Systems. This event is set to take place at the Heindl Center for the Performing Arts on April 18.
The headliner for the event is pop singer Dave Barnes, who will perform after the awards ceremony.
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Warm and pleasant greetings to all. We hope you are enjoying a good week.
As individuals and families, we know it’s important that we care for each other.
Let’s continue to sincerely be compassionate and pray for those who are experiencing difficult challenges at this time, battling a disease, grieving with sympathy, experiencing other health and social issues.
By MELBA TAYLOR on
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News is short this week. With it being so cold, most everyone I contacted said it was too cold to get out and ramble. I certainly agree with them.
Thankful that Alex Ballard is home from the hospital after undergoing appendicitis surgery. I know her too precious little girls are happy that mama is home and feeling better each day.
Happy birthday to Bobby Cook and Winky Chambers on the 20th, Angela Robinson and Nathan Hartley on the 22nd, and Robert Duke on the 23rd. I pray you all have a wonderful day celebrating your day!
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