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Mark Bright, who died in a plane crash Tuesday, felt most in his element when he was in the cockpit of an aircraft.

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Pilot killed in crash loved flying
By TIM KALICH - Editor

Thu,05/09/19-1:02AM , 653 Reads
Mark Bright loved food and Coca-Cola. But the thing he loved most was flying, say his friends.

Bright was indulging in that passion Tuesday when the single-engine plane the 27-year-old was piloting crashed shortly after takeoff from a private airstrip south of Schlater.
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Pilot killed in plane crash identified
By TIM KALICH - Editor
Wed,05/08/19-4:43PM , 354 Reads
The Greenwood pilot killed Tuesday night when his plane crashed near a private airstrip south of Schlater has been identified as Mark Bright.

Bright, 27, died when the single-engine, two-seat aircraft he was flying crashed around 8 p.m. shortly after takeoff. No one else was on board, according to Leflore County Coroner Debra Sanders.
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From right, Aniyah Ellis and Kaniyah House, students from the Greenwood Mentoring Center, are on hand for Saturday’s Community Prayer Breakfast, a fundraiser for the after-school and summer enrichment program. With them is Kaniyah’s grandmother, Roberta Higgins.

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Speakers: Mentoring Group doing valuable work with children
By TIM KALICH - Editor
Tue,05/07/19-1:13AM , 235 Reads
The Rev. Brady Canright was tutoring a fourth-grader in math last week at the Greenwood Mentoring Center. The two worked through the word problem together, with a little help from Google, the pastor of First Baptist Church acknowledged.
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A bike path to better times
By TIM KALICH - Editor
Sat,05/04/19-12:32AM , 392 Reads
Last Saturday, when Beth Stevens was biking atop the levee from Humphrey Highway to the Greenwood-Leflore Airport, she was bowled over by the undisturbed natural beauty around her.
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