By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – New hiring procedures will go into effect starting next month at BorgWarner’s local manufacturing facility. Human Technologies, Inc. with corporate offices in Greenville, S.C., will be used exclusively for the company’s temporary staffing needs as of Nov. 1, according to Rodney Francis, Human Resources Manager. In the past, Valley…

By David HowellEditor WATER VALLEY – With the November General Election less than a week away, there is a flurry of activity as candidates push for a last minute edge. One of the most hotly contested race pits one-term Democratic Congressman Travis Childers against Republican challenger Alan Nunnelee. Childers and Nunnelee are locked in a…

By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – Video surveillance equipment will soon be installed in the high school with the help of the city‘s civic organizations. Bill Taylor, President of the Water Valley Main Street Association, and Bennett Hill, President of the Water Valley Chamber of Commerce, appeared before the District School Board Tuesday, Oct 19,…

By David HowellEditor WATER VALLEY – A board order requesting Tax Assessor/Collector Linda Shuffield to publish the list of people who owed 2009 personal property taxes in the county’s newspapers has been a hot topic in the last two county meetings.     Shuffield presented the 2009 personal property tax insolvency report during the “first Monday”…

(Editor’s Note: This is a statement from Superintendent Dr. Deborah Moran concerning rumors of possible violence at  the school district last Friday. She prepared the statement at the request of the Herald.) I want to thank our Water Valley faculty that attended school, with their children last Friday, and stayed all day. I want to…

WATER VALLEY – The City has a new pick-up truck and a new cell phone service provider after a brief meeting of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen Oct. 20. The session was called on short notice mainly to purchase a used 2007 GMC three-quarter ton pickup for the Electric Department. The vehicle has 20,425…

MISSISSIPPI STATE — An administrator with more than 25 years experience in agricultural education has been named director of the Mississippi State University Extension Service. Gary Brown Jackson will assume his duties as head of the statewide educational outreach system Jan.1, 2011, pending formal approval of the Board of Trustees, State Institutions of Higher Learning.…

Water Valley 31, Winona 21  –  In other Yalobusha County action, Coffeeville 37, St. Joseph, Greenville 21

WATER VALLEY – Halloween is still over a week away and police are already dealing with seasonal pranksters. Last Saturday night a patrol officer called in to the dispatcher to log down several rolls of toilet paper on Main Street. And earlier in the week, officers investigating a suspicious car on Dupuy found it occupied…

Staff Report COFFEEVILLE – The new town budget for 2010-2011 was adopted during the September meeting of the Mayor and Board. Aldermen approved the $320,800 budget with a 40.257 millage rate on Sept. 7, according to minutes from the meeting. Among other actions at the regular first of the month meeting, the Board of Aldermen:…