5 Star Stories: Senatobia, Mississippi, a thriving and growing community
5 Star Stories: Senatobia, Mississippi By Kym Clark | May 4, 2021 at 9:05 PM CDT - Updated May 4 at 11:02 PM
SENATOBIA, Miss (WMC) - Just off Interstate 55 sits the seat of Tate County, Mississippi, a bustling town of 8,000 where for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years, many a traveler found respite on their journey.
“We’re the only Senatobia in the whole wide world. There’s not even a little crossroads named Senatobia, not even a small little town named Senatobia,” said Main Street Director Jamie Sowell.
It was 1834 when an early settler purchased land from the Chickasaw Nation for $1.25 an acre. That land later became the town of Senatobia. The name Senatobia is derived from a native word which means white sycamore, which is also a symbol of rest for the weary.
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After starting Day 3 of the 2021 NFL Draft with North Carolina RB Michael Carter in the fourth round, the Jets flipped the script and turned to the defensive side of the ball their ensuing five picks. That run extended into Round 6 when Joe Douglas selected Kentucky CB Brandin Echols with the No. 200 overall selection.
Appearing in 24 games at Kentucky, Echols (5-11, 178) totaled 108 tackles, two forced fumbles and one interception. He made 11 starts last season, finishing fourth on the team in tackles with 54. Before arriving at Kentucky, Echols amassed 6 interceptions and was a second-team junior college All-American at Northwest Mississippi College.
Brandin Echols - Inside Cornerback Kentucky Wildcats Scouting Report
Scouting report for NFL Draft prospect Brandin Echols
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Echols arrived at Kentucky in 2019 as a JUCO transfer out of Northwest Mississippi CC and went on to start in 22 straight career games after not starting his initial two. His presence in the Kentucky secondary has come as the field cornerback mostly, while also playing valuable reps as their starting nickel. Echols shows impressive foot speed to carry vertical routes and noteworthy recovery speed to get back in phase when he has lost leverage on vertical routes. Excels when he can play downhill and utilize plus short-area quickness out of his breaks. Echols shows excellent football intelligence when playing as an underneath defender from the nickel position, displaying the talent to reroute and leverage routes properly with vision on the quarterback. He is an inconsistent tackler in the open field who struggles to come to balance as an ove
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COVID Racial Disparities Loom Large in Rural Counties
An assisted living employee in Mississippi receives a COVID-19 vaccine from a Walgreens pharmacist in January. As federal and state government officials ramp up vaccination efforts, White people outpace people of color in getting vaccinated.
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CLARKSDALE, Miss. In the early days of the pandemic, Greenwood, Mississippi, native Jackie Hawkins, a long-time rural public policy expert, expected that rural people of color would be hurt at higher rates than their urban and White counterparts.
As the pandemic set in, fear and hesitancy settled into Black communities relatively quickly, she said, because of the lack of information around the coronavirus, and because of years of fraught relationships with health care providers.
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