By Jack Gurner Reporter WATER VALLEY – Police responded to a robbery in progress call Nov. 2 after a worried mom called 911 and reported that the Mechanics Bank was being held up. In turned out that she was right about the robbery, she just had the wrong town. The Mechanics Bank branch at 1508…

By David Howell Editor COFFEEVILLE – County officials pledged to help a rural water association to search for funds to replace an aging water tank that serves customers in Yalobusha, Grenada and Calhoun counties.     Young Water and Sewage Association President Glenn Parker told supervisors that a 30 year-old concrete water tank that serves 180…

By David HowellEditor OXFORD – A Texas man has pleaded not guilty to federal charges for making and passing counterfeit money in Yalobusha County. Eric Jason Craft, 34, was arrested by the Yalobusha County Sheriff’s Depart-ment on October 11 at a home on Hwy. 32, east of Oakland. Local authorities were serving a warrant for…

By David Howelland Billy Davis Assistant District Attorney Smith Murphey won a four-person race for a circuit court judge’s seat Tuesday, avoiding a November 23 runoff.     A second judicial race meanwhile, for a newly created circuit court seat, has moved to a runoff.     Murphey and three other candidates, Rhonda Mason Amis, Adam Pittman…

    VFW Post 4100 will hold their annual Veterans Day Ceremony November 11, beginning at 11 a.m. at the monument on Main Street in Water Valley. Col. Robert Thomas will be the guest speaker.     In the event of bad weather the ceremony will be held in the Post Home at 11535 Highway 315, west…

Water Valley 28, Corinth 0 PLAY-OFF NOTES FROM BOBBY MURPHREE:  Water Valley is 14-16 in the play-offs, and is 6-6 at home.The Devils lost in the 2nd round of the play-offs last year to Belmont. In the last 20 years Water Valley has missed the play-offs only two times in 1995 & 2007. Offensively the…

    A Water Valley Prayer Conference will be held Friday and Saturday, Nov. 5 and 6. The Conference is hosted by Along The Way Ministries, Inc. and will be led by Pastor Harold Stanley and Minister Leticia Wright, both from Texas.     The Conference will be held in Glory! Glory! Hallelajah Church, 110 South Main…

Here are some photos of Water Valley folks exercising their right to vote on Tuesday.

Yalobusha voters turned out in the rain Tuesday to vote in an election dominated by the Congressional race. Out of 8797 registered voters, 48 percent (4223) turned out. There is a .PDF file with the local numbers available above.

By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – Yalobusha County’s unemployment rate went up in September to 12.6 percent. That is up 1.7 percent from August’s rate of 11.9 percent, according to the latest numbers from the Mississippi Department of Employment Security. The September report shows that there were 40 more people working last month (4400) than…