Clay McFerrin

Free school supplies, backpacks, school uniforms, food, prizes, music and family fun are promised for Saturday’s annual Tallahatchie County Back to School Expo at sites in Charleston and Glendora.

The Charleston Recovery Center, a division of God’s House of Hope, will conduct a ribbon-cutting dedication and open house event Friday from 5-7 p.m. at 30104 Highway 32, east of Charleston.

Tallahatchie County’s unemployment rate rose from 3.2% in December to 3.6% in January, according to a report from the Mississippi Department of Employment Security reported this week.

Certain physical changes occur for all of us as we grow older, and they become more pronounced, it seems, after we hit the 50 mark. One of these is an increased risk for certain diseases.

The eighth edition of the Charleston Mayor’s Charity Ball is set for Saturday, March 30, at 6 p.m., Mayor Sedrick Smith Sr. announced Monday.

New and returning Tallahatchie County elected officials recited their oaths of office Tuesday morning, Jan. 2, during a ceremony held in the courtroom of the Tallahatchie County Courthouse in Charleston.

An early-morning house fire Wednesday destroyed a residential structure and threatened several others homes and businesses southwest of the intersection of Clay and West Main streets in Charleston.

The Mississippi Public Service Commission will conduct a hearing this month on whether to grant authority to Wildwood Solar LLC for the construction of a 100-megawatt solar electric generatin

WEBB — The West Tallahatchie High School Choctaws, runners-up in Region 5-1A, will host a first-round state playoff game here Friday night. The 2-8 Leake County Gators, the No. 3 seed from Region 7-1A, will travel to Webb. The game kicks off at 7 p.m.

Glendora funeral home manager Anthony “Tony” Hawkins made history Tuesday when he defeated longtime incumbent Tallahatchie County Coroner Ginger Smith Meriwether in the Democratic primary runoff election. Hawkins, 53, becomes the first Black candidate ever to win a party nomination for that countywide position in Tallahatchie County.