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by Senior Editor Danny Wade With the 85th annual West Tennessee Strawberry Festival less than three months away, festival officials are hard at work making sure they have all their ducks in a row. One of the duties of the festival president is to name an honoree. Last week, Strawberry Festival President Shane Lynch and…

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by DANNY WADE  |  Senior Editor dwade@hchronicle.net Weather forecasters were predicting an epic ice storm for West Tennessee with three rounds of storms rolling through last week. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday each had the potential to cause havoc on roads and power lines. But a thin break in the ice storm line kept Humboldt from…

by DANNY WADE  |  Senior Editor dwade@hchronicle.net During the Humboldt Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting on Monday, January 23, the board tackled a rather lengthy agenda. The first item of new business was the 2021-22 audit report. Matt Wood with Alexander Thompson Arnold CPA firm addressed the board and highlighted a few of the…

  by ARIEL McRAE  |  Associate Editor amcrae@hchronicle.net The first school board meeting for the second semester of the year met last Thursday, January 19 to discuss a few items pertinent to the 2023-2024 school year. One of the biggest topics on the agenda discussed was the Trane presentation given by Jim Crone. The board…

   by DANNY WADE  |  Senior Editor       dwade@hchronicle.net Practically everyone in Humboldt knew or knew of the late Ann Williams. She spent most of her life educating the children of Humboldt. Now, the library at East Elementary School will be named the Ann S. Williams Library and Literacy Center in her honor.…

  by Danny Wade Over the past several years, it has been customary for the sitting mayor to look back at the previous year, while looking forward into the current year to offer the state of the city. Mayor Marvin Sikes sat down with the Humboldt Chronicle last week to let Humboldt citizens know of…