The local stores are preparing for the upcoming Halloween tradition of Trick-or-Treat as they have mounds of candy lining aisle after aisle, just ready to purchase, and a  row or two over is all the great costumes sure to bring a smile to your face or a fright to your heart. The ever popular costumes of witches, ghosts, goblins and clowns are being met this year with princesses, lions, tigers, monkeys and the always popular cartoon characters, as young ones are finally deciding what they want to dress up as for Halloween this year.

Charlestown Middle School girls cross country team came in fifth place in the Mid Southern Conference out of 15 schools.
Whitney Andrews won a medal running in sixth place with the time of 12:40. Also, setting a personal best time were: Alysha Flaget, running 12th with the time of 13:16, Kaitlynn Henning placed came in 22nd at 13:54 and Samantha Snodgrass, 43rd with the time of 15:44. Also running was Molly Sumner who came in 53rd at 18:16, Josh Hurley, 32nd at 12:32, Konnar Heil, 43rd at 14:43 and Jacob McCoy, 63rd at 20:01.