The Sun-Sentinel

10/18/2025

Laura Davis Woods holds “Tilly the Tiller,” an 8-week-old little pot-belly pig that will be the lucky recipient of a kiss this afternoon about 4:45 p.m. by the winner of the Charleston Gateway to the Delta Festival’s Smoochin’ Scissors contest. Either Glenna Callender, Angie Davis or Alisha Pittman will win, depending on the one who has the most money donated to CARE in her name. Voting is still open! Donate at the tent in front of the CARE building.

10/18/2025

10/18/2025

What a beautiful start to the day at the Charleston Gateway To The Delta Festival. Remember, the festival opens at 10 a.m. and is set to conclude at 11 p.m. In addition to live music, food trucks, vendors and the Kids' Zone, there is a car show, a touch-a-truck area where children can get up close and personal with fire trucks, an ambulance and more. Don't forget about the kids' pageants and so much more going on at this year's 14th Charleston Gateway To The Delta Festival TODAY, Oct. 18! Admission is free! BRING A COMFORTABLE CHAIR AND COME ENJOY THE DAY!

10/18/2025

REMINDER
Faith Food Pantry will NOT be held today (Oct. 18). It has been postponed until Oct. 25. (Please share.)

10/18/2025

10/18/2025

Per MaxPreps

10/16/2025

Renovations ongoing at Charleston City Hall

Photo by Clay McFerrin, © 2025 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc. A worker from Rodriguez Remodeling Co. paints the metal roof of the front overhang at Charleston City Hall Thursday afternoon. The work is part of a comprehensive renovations project. Photo by Clay McFerrin, © 2025 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc. ...

10/16/2025

A mass shooting in Leland Friday night left six people dead and over two-dozen injured.

A mass shooting in Leland Friday night left six people dead and more than two-dozen injured.

10/16/2025

CHARLESTON TRUNK-OR-TREAT TO BE OCT. 31

The city of Charleston's annual Halloween trunk-or-treat event will be held Friday, Oct. 31, beginning at 6 p.m., on Court Square, city officials said Thursday.
The public is invited to decorate a vehicle trunk and to share candy.
For more information, contact Mayor Sedrick Smith at 662-647-5841, Val Bynum at 662-647-7526 or Cassandra Patterson at 662-647-4711.

10/16/2025

The West Side Alumni Booster Club, in partnership with private donors, has purchased new uniforms for the West Tallahatchie junior high girls’ basketball team.