Clay McFerrin | The Sun-Sentinel

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Charleston High School boys and girls track team members and coaches celebrate after both squads won the Class 2A North State Championships Saturday at Potts Camp High School. It is believed to be the first time both of the CHS units have won a North State championship in track and field in the same season. (Photo by Mandy Moore)

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CHS boys, girls track teams make history
By Clay McFerrin - Editor and Publisher, Charleston Sun-Sentinel
Thu,05/04/23-10:53AM , 2,722 Reads
POTTS CAMP — History was made here Saturday as Charleston High School swept the Class 2A North State Track and Field Championships, both the Tigers and Lady Tigers winning first-place trophies.
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This brittle section of South Market Street in Charleston is near Tallahatchie General Hospital. (Photo by Clay McFerrin)

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Charleston meeting Thursday evening seeks input on how best to spend $1 million on streets
By Clay McFerrin - Editor and Publisher, Charleston Sun-Sentinel
Mon,05/01/23-3:35PM , 2,978 Reads
Residents of Charleston are invited to attend a Thursday evening meeting at City Hall to offer input on the question of which city streets are in most dire need of repair.
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Two-time Grammy Awards winner Bobby Rush, center, is shown at the April 15 second annual sickle cell walk/health fair at the Emmett Till Multi-Purpose Complex near Sumner. With him, from left, are Santricia Cauthern; Ambrois Neal III; Latricia Marie Cauthern; and Evelyn Washington, Mississippi Sickle Cell Foundation board member. Rush, a blues singer, songwriter and guitarist, lost three children to sickle cell disease. (Photo special to The Sun-Sentinel)

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Sumner event raises awareness of sickle cell disease
By Clay McFerrin - Editor and Publisher, Charleston Sun-Sentinel
Fri,04/28/23-5:20PM , 1,588 Reads
The Mississippi Sickle Cell Foundation's second annual sickle cell walk/run and health fair was held Saturday, April 15, at the Emmett Till Multi-Purpose Complex near Sumner.

Among the guests was two-time Grammy Awards winning blues singer, songwriter and guitarist, who lost three children to sickle cell disease.
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After winning division, region championships, CHS track teams face North State on Friday
By Clay McFerrin - Editor and Publisher, Charleston Sun-Sentinel
Wed,04/26/23-4:51PM , 1,901 Reads
Less than a week after winning Division 3-2A first-place team trophies, the Charleston High School Tigers and Lady Tigers repeated with first-place finishes at the Region 2-2A track and field meet April 18 in Winona.
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