NOTICE TO CITIZENS OF WATER VALLEY It’s Watermelon Carnival Clean-Up Time in the Valley. The Street Department asks that you help us clean up our City for the Watermelon Carnival Celebration. LET’S GET AN EARLY START so that our street crews can get your debris picked up in a timely fashion. Please bag the small…

Art by Lucia and Don Holloway is on display in the lobby of the Renasant Bank as the latest installment of a rotating show sponsored by the bank and the Water Valley Arts Council. The couple, longtime supporters of the arts, are students of Catherine Eatman, Curator of Mary Buie Museum. Local artists who are…

By David HowellEditor TILLATOBA – Three supervisors candidates from three different races spoke at the first political forum hosted by Tillatoba Fire Department on June 23.     The first supervisor to take the podium was Eddie Harris, who was born and raised in Coffeeville. Harris is running for District Four supervisor, and started his speech…

Watch a video of the youngsters and their parade on YouTube.

By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – Police investigated five vehicle crashes within the city limits during the July 4 holiday period beginning Friday. The most serious was Saturday at 9 p.m. when an automobile headed eastbound on Wise Street collided with a northbound vehicle on the Hwy. 7 bypass. The impact caused the vehicles to…

By David HowellEditor WATER VALLEY – Imagine a job where you never get caught up – there is always something that needs to be done.     Now imagine taking care of almost 40 acres of vegetables, truck patches, scattered across the eastern end of Yalobusha County.     Kenny Harmon is doing just that – starting…

Billy Bryce Williamson, self-described retired farmer, once again brought in the first cotton bloom this week. He said it was found July 4 in his son’s field on CR 95 not far from CR 436.  – Photo by Jack Gurner

By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – Danielle and Shelton were married last Thursday surrounded by family, friends, snack cakes, candy bars and beef jerky. The early afternoon ceremony was held at the SprintMart on North Main Street at the insistence of the groom’s mom, who said she finally talked the couple into getting hitched. Their…

By David HowellEditor COFFEEVILLE – For the second consecutive year, Tax Assessor/Collector Linda Shuffield reported the total assessed value of the county has declined.     An annual tradition, Shuffield presented the 2011  tax rolls to supervisors during a Tuesday meeting held in Coffeeville on July 5. The meeting was pushed from the regular “first Monday”…

Several people were injured and at least two transported by ambulance after a three-vehicle crash at the Wise Street Hwy. 7 Bypass intersection at 9 p.m. Saturday. A white pick-up truck west bound on Wise collided with two autos northbound on the bypass, according to a witness. Since Friday morning there have been five vehicle…