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Charleston awarded $600,000 for sewer improvement work
By Clay McFerrin - Editor and Publisher, Charleston Sun-Sentinel
Fri,05/22/26-11:36AM , 715 Reads
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.
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Charleston High seniors to graduate Friday, West Tally seniors walk Saturday
By Clay McFerrin - Editor and Publisher, Charleston Sun-Sentinel
Fri,05/22/26-11:05AM , 971 Reads
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.
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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.

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Tallahatchie County again hosts district 4-H Shooting Sports competition for 15 counties
By Clay McFerrin - Editor and Publisher, Charleston Sun-Sentinel
Fri,05/15/26-4:57PM , 1,314 Reads
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.
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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)

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Special Olympics Mississippi torch makes run through Charleston
By Clay McFerrin - Editor and Publisher, Charleston Sun-Sentinel
Fri,05/15/26-3:14PM , 1,674 Reads
The Law Enforcement Torch Run for Special Olympics Mississippi made a stop in Charleston on Monday, May 4.
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