3 months ago
An ordinance on the books in Charleston since 1979 prohibits bicycles from being ridden on any city sidewalk “along or adjoining Main Street between Pleasant Street and Clay Street.”
The ordinance basically encompasses the business district of the Court Square area and West Main streets. In present-day language, that would be the area from the southeast corner of White's Chevron station and the northeast corner of Charleston First Baptist Church, to the car wash just past SuperValu and across from NAPA.
By Clay McFerrin - Editor and Publisher, Charleston Sun-Sentinel on
3 months ago
Tallahatchie County Sheriff Jimmy Fly, left, presents retiring Chief Deputy Benji McKinney with a plaque during a Feb. 27 celebration in his honor in the courtroom of the Tallahatchie County Courthouse in Charleston. (Photo by Sheila McKinney)
After 32 years of service as a law enforcement officer in Tallahatchie County, Benjamin “Benji” McKinney recently hung up his sidearm and unpinned his badge for the last time.
Benji’s retirement at the age of 54 was official Jan. 28, but a planned reception in his honor had to be postponed due to Winter Storm Fern and its icy onslaught.
In remarks at the eventual Feb. 27 retirement reception, Tallahatchie County Sheriff Jimmy Fly noted the monthlong delay with a bit of humor.
By Clay McFerrin - Editor and Publisher, Charleston Sun-Sentinel on
3 months ago
Were you raised to be independent?
Taught to think for yourself? Taught to take care of your own problems and solve them?
I sure was.
But there have been times when I have faced the overwhelming feeling of utter helplessness. Notice I said, “feeling.” Being a feeling, the helplessness was no less real to me at the time.
If you stop and think about it, what can you really control? What can you do in many instances that rear up to threaten you and yours?
By Connie Bunch on
3 months ago
TUTWILER — Two men have been charged in the case of a shooting death that occurred here early Sunday at approximately 1:20 a.m.
Tutwiler Police Chief Carlos Thompson said Wednesday that David Michael Holman, 33, of 394 West St., Tutwiler, is charged with first-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Holman is being held at the Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility on a $1 million bond for the shooting death and a $50,000 bond for the possession charge, he added.
By Clay McFerrin - Editor and Publisher, Charleston Sun-Sentinel on
3 months ago
The Charleston Magnolia Garden Club is very busy with a tree planting, plants at the nursing home and supporting visits to our nearby garden clubs and Charleston Elementary school.
By Gay Lyn Haynes on
3 months ago
Mississippi sits along one of North America’s most critical flyways, making spring migration a spectacular phenomenon that transforms our skies and landscapes each year. As winter loosens its grip, millions of birds funnel through the state on their journey from Central and South American wintering grounds to breeding territories across the continent.
By James L. Cummins - Executive Director, Wildlife Mississippi on
3 months ago
Billy Earl Akins
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A vehicle reported stolen in Carroll County early this week was later recovered in Tallahatchie County.
By Special to The Sun-Sentinel on
3 months ago
We are excited to announce that Oakland has received another grant. We were waiting Monday morning to hear about yet another one. (Fingers crossed!) Communities Unlimited (CU) has awarded us a grant to bring together our faith-based communities to potentially create a huge core of people to further strengthen our community. We are so grateful to CU and its funder, Trust for Civic Life, for believing in Oakland and our vision.
By Linda Ross Aldy on
3 months ago
Measles hit Spartanburg, South Carolina, hard. Reuters reported last month nearly 1,000 individuals got infected in Spartanburg County since October. The outbreak hit in places like the Global Academy of South Carolina where 21% of students had not been vaccinated, then spread to the unvaccinated at places like Costco, Publix, Goodwill, Burger King, the library, a museum, and the post office, reported the New York Times.
“This is not normal,” state epidemiologist Dr. Linda Bell said. “This is unprecedented.”
By Bill Crawford on
3 months ago
Truth can be strange, and those who think to the contrary should try reading Julian Sancton’s new book, “Neptune’s Fortune, The Billion Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire.”
At the center of the book is Roger Dooley, a Cuban American who explored the island’s waters for Castro, scoured the Spanish archives for decades, and at age 71 found off the coast of Colombia the wreck of a famous 18th century ship loaded with gold, which neither he nor anyone else has gotten to touch.
By Luther Munford on
3 months ago
JXN Water and Entergy Mississippi have something in common. They are both regulated monopolies that have failed to provide affordable water and electricity to justify their monopoly status. They are “natural monopolies” based on the premise that competition involves costly duplication of plants and pipes and transmission lines and thus higher costs. Hence, regulated monopolies to provide cheaper water and electricity.
By Kelley Williams on
3 months ago
TIMARA LAYTON
Inducted into societies
Charleston native Timara Layton has been inducted into Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Alpha Lambda Delta recognizes high academic achievement during the first year of college.
Layton is a first-year sophomore at LSU, where she is majoring in Political Science with a concentration in law and legal systems with a minor in criminology.
Students typically must have a GPA of 3.5 or higher to be eligible for induction into the society.
Layton currently holds a GPA of 3.8
By Special to The Sun-Sentinel on
3 months ago
Warm and pleasant greetings to all. We welcome springtime !
The attractive magazine covers give some inspiration to reading.
Reading is lacking with the hard back cover reading. I enjoy reading and perhaps writing, even more. I enjoy intensive reading that is slow, focused and engaging with the material as well as I like extensive reading, which helps me process the information and is interesting. The point is, I do a bit more than skimming and scanning.
It is pleasurable and knowledgeable and I like improving my vocabulary as well!
By MELBA TAYLOR on
3 months ago
The Oakland Area Chamber of Commerce has announced that Danica Hart, formerly of the nationally recognized country trio Chapel Hart, will headline the 2026 Yalo-Ribbon Festival in Oakland on Saturday, May 2.
With the addition of Hart and growing regional interest in the event, festival organizers have moved this year’s celebration to the James Riley Swearengen Walking Track and Park, providing more space for music, vendors and family activities. The park is located at 61 Walnut Street, in Oakland.
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3 months ago
Ted "Teddy" DiBiase Jr. and his wife Kristen Tynes walk to the Thad Cochran United States Courthouse on Tuesday, March 3, 2026, in Jackson. Credit: Vickie D. King, Mississippi Today
Attorneys defending Ted “Teddy” DiBiase Jr., the only person to face trial in a welfare fraud scandal that has rocked Mississippi over the last six years, kept their case succinct.
They began Tuesday and rested Wednesday afternoon, the 18th day of trial, after calling just four witnesses. DiBiase opted not to take the stand. On Thursday, the judge will deliver the jury’s instructions, both sides will present closing arguments and jurors will begin deliberating.
By Anna Wolfe - Mississippi Today on
3 months ago
Jackson’s premier culinary celebration returns March 20–22 with festival chair Chef Nick Wallace and more than 35 participating chefs.
By Susan Marquez - Magnolia Tribune on
3 months ago
By the time I reached our hostess Julia Turnipseed’s home, I looked every bit a drowned rat. Just four miles away in Tutwiler it wasn’t raining, but in Sumner my car wasn’t wide enough to straddle a full storm drain puddle. Walking past all the umbrellas on the front porch, I wanted to turn and run. Nonsense, Julia welcomed me and graciously ushered me to a chair I’d be least likely to ruin.
By LYDIA DUNAVENT on
3 months ago
I was pondering all the things that are different or strange that happen in our lives. Some I would have never thought about but yet have come about in my life.
As I have said, I have broken so many bones it seems unimaginable that I am still able to ambulate upright. I have had both my shoulders replaced, my right ankle, and my left femur has been reworked in steel from thigh to ankle. I have even broken a toe, but as minor as that was considering the other breaks, I only found out about the toe when I had an X-ray for sciatica.
By Peggy Sims on
3 months ago
After being fired following an incendiary post about Charlie Kirk’s death, former ole Miss employee Lauren Stokes argued her First Amendment rights were violated. U.S. District Judge Glen Davidson dismissed the claims Monday, setting up a potential 5th Circuit appeal.
A federal judge has dismissed former University of Mississippi employee Lauren Stokes’ First Amendment retaliation lawsuit against Chancellor Glenn Boyce, bringing an early end—at least for now—to one of the state’s most closely watched campus speech disputes.
By Russ Latino - Magnolia Tribune on
3 months ago
Mary Ann was born in Biloxi and grew up in Brandon, with loving but strict parents. Her childhood in Mississippi shaped her outlook on life.
By Marilyn Tinnin - Magnolia Tribune on
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