By Jack Gurner Reporter WATER VALLEY – District school board trustees are for the Common Core State Standards, but are not happy with the implementation or the testing mechanism. That was among the comments made as trustees answered questions on the Mississippi School Board Association 2015 legislative survey. The survey was distributed to the state’s…

By Jack Gurner Reporter WATER VALLEY – City officials have declared as surplus a little less than three acres of land that once was the site of one of the area’s largest employers. The 2.7 acre plot was home to the Illinois Central Railroad shop yard beginning in the middle of the 19th Century until…

By David Howell Editor   COFFEEVILLE – Citing the death of three dead calves and a prized coon dog, a Yalobusha woman strongly criticized the sheriff’s department for not enforcing the county’s vicious dog ordinance.     Nell Camp said the killings started on June 12, with another on June 29. The third calf was killed…

By Jack Gurner Reporter WATER VALLEY – Alderman Bobby Cox wants his fellow city officials to put on their “thinking caps” and develop ideas to combat Water Valley’s litter problem. Cox spoke at the end of the Sept. 2 meeting of the mayor and board commenting that he had heard nothing but good things following…

By Lucia Holloway Contributing Writer WATER VALLEY – Dog days of August and September come and go. Dog days of summer stay for Nancy and Don Giles. They host an animal shelter of their own – not of their own choosing, but dogs and cats just gravitate to their door step.   In 2001, when…

By David Howell Editor   WATER VALLEY – A lot has happened in the decade Upton Reynolds has been gone from Water Valley, attending college and working six years in the financial industry. During his journey, he has worked in numerous cities – Los Vegas, Seattle, Vancouver, Silicon Valley, to name a few – and…

WATER VALLEY – Over 40 local artists and musicians will participate in the 6th annual Water Valley Art Crawl on Saturday, Sept. 20. Art will be on display from 5:30 until 9 p.m. at 14 stops, all within an easy-to-walk half-mile radius, according to Ramona Bernard, one of the organizers from the Water Valley Arts…

By David Howell Editor   COFFEEVILLE – A tax complaint by the county’s former tax assessor/collector was addressed at Monday’s supervisor meeting. As part of the tax process prior to the 2014-15 county budget being adopted, Guy Dale Shaw initially filed a registered complaint with the Board of Super-visors asking for his entire 160-acre homestead…

o WHEN, WHERE:  Friday, 7 p.m. at Calhoun City High School Field o RECORDS: WV 1-1(0-0) Calhoun 2-0(0-0) o SERIES: WV leads 13-9-0 o FIRST MEETING:  1949 WV won  37-14 o LAST MEETING:   2013 WV won 42-6 o LAST WEEK: Water Valley lost to Coffeeville 20-14,  Calhoun City defeated Houston 40-0 o TV: Cable Channel…

By Jack Gurner Reporter WATER VALLEY – School officials are considering blocking off the entrances to Davidson Elementary School after school hours to avoid damage to the covered walkway and for additional school security. Earlier this year a tractor-trailer truck hit the walkway structure while using the parking lot to go between North Court Street…