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Green Bay Packers Pro Bowler Elgton Jenkins, left, also a 2014 Clarksdale High School graduate, is with his peewee football coach Tyrone Smith. Smith coached Jenkins with the Clarksdale Lumberjacks.

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Jenkins returns for Homecoming
By JOSH TROY/PUBLISHER
Tue,11/11/25-8:53PM , 580 Reads
2014 Clarksdale High
graduate reflects on time with Lumberjacks

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Mississippi's Sunshine Laws need improvement
By JOSH TROY/PUBLISHER
Tue,11/11/25-7:26PM , 472 Reads
The way things unfolded last week with the Coahoma County School District Board was a reminder of how the State of Mississippi’s Sunshine Laws stand in the way of transparency.
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PHOTO FROM COLLEEN BUYERS The King Biscuit Blues Festival was in Helena-West Helena, Ark.

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Communities come together for King Biscuit Festival
By FROM STAFF REPORTS
Tue,11/04/25-4:16PM , 456 Reads
Clarksdale and Helena-West Helena, Ark., came together to put on the King Biscuit Blues Festival last week.
The KBBF is usually in Helena-West Helena, but this year, the “Biscuit Warm-Up Live From Clarksdale” was Wednesday through mid-day Friday. The KBBF was mid-day Friday and Saturday in Helena-West Helena.
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Clarksdale Ward 4 Commissioner Linda Downing, left, and Ward 3 Commissioner Eddie Earl are hoping to meet with the Clarksdale Municipal School District board.

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CMSD'S performance questioned
By JOSH TROY/PUBLISHER
Tue,11/04/25-4:13PM , 1,168 Reads
Earl, Downing hope for meeting between Commissioners, school board
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