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Beginning Sept. 25, all DeSoto County Schools students will be dismissed from school on Fridays two hours and 15 minutes early. The new 70% Fridays were implemented to give teachers more planning time due to the challenges of virtual learning.

70% Fridays begin this week

September 24, 2020

From left, receptionist Mandi Osborne, school nurse Brittany Crum, and Assistant Principal Zack Sims react to the announcement that CHHS is a National Blue Ribbon School. Principal Doug Payne said plans for a celebration are in the works.

Best of the best: CHHS earns National Blue Ribbon status

September 24, 2020

Students returned to school wearing masks and practicing social distancing. “We want to make this the best learning experience we can have but we do have to follow a lot of safety guidelines,” Principal Doug Payne said.

Students return to school during pandemic

September 4, 2020

Surrounded by his family, Dru Hines prepares to have graduation pictures taken by a Holland Studio photographer. Hines graduated with special distinction June 9 in a ceremony that followed CDC guidelines.

First group of CHHS seniors graduates in socially distant ceremony

June 9, 2020

Cathy Dawson helps Shamyra Thomas try on her cap and gown June 2. Thomas said with a family of 10, the limit of six people at her graduation ceremony

Seniors pick up caps and gowns

June 2, 2020

Bill Hatch hands Gus Lockett the contents of Lockett's locker on April 28, the first of two drive-thru locker clean out days at CHHS for seniors. Seniors will also be able to return library books and textbooks on April 30. There will be designated times for all students to drop off books and retrieve personal items May 4-8.

Seniors line up for drive-thru locker clean out, book drop off

April 28, 2020

Sarah Hennan holds a yard sign that her mom made for the senior's upcoming graduation. Originally scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, May 23 at the Landers Center, CHHS graduation is now up in the air because of the coronavirus. One option being considered is holding a traditional commencement later in the summer.

Class of 2020 hopes for traditional graduation ceremony later this summer

April 26, 2020

Ashia Eubanks, bottom right, has been FaceTiming with friends while school is closed to slow the spread of COVID-19. Pictured with her are, from top left, Ana Le, Kymoria Mottley and Lyndsey Bailey.

My quarantine experience

April 11, 2020

According to cdc.gov,

Out until April 17, teachers, students begin distance learning

March 27, 2020

CHHS choirs to sing in the Big Apple

Nadia Sumlar, Co-editor

March 5, 2020

UPDATE: Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the New York City trip was canceled. "(Coronavirus) had ruined my social life and taken an important trip from me," sophomore Nia Jones said. "I was very devastated to learn that...

Select Women’s Chorus spends Spring Break in Alabama

Nadia Sumlar, Co-editor

March 5, 2020

The Select Women’s Chorus is attending the American Choral Directors Association in Mobile, Alabama. The ACDA is a professional organization of over 20,000 choral directors. In even numbered years, they have regional conferences...

This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Photo by Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAMS via the Public Health Image Library at CDC.

COVID-19 takes toll on U.S., world

March 5, 2020

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