The Mississippi Native Wildflower Conservation Program’s Wildflower Tour Day will be held Wednesday, June 30, at the Jamie L. Whitten Plant Materials Center, located at 2533 CR 65, outside Coffeeville.   Registration will be from 8-10 a.m. Wagon tours of wildflower fields and native grasses will be held throughout the day.   Presentations will include:…

The Bozarts Alliance would like to invite you to come and see our newest show. The alliance has 10 members and these 10 members have each invited an artist they admire to showcase their work. The opening reception will be tonight from 6 to 9. The artists and their works vary from paintings, pastels, fiber…

By CLAY McFERRIN Sun-Sentinel Editor Three Charleston residents – a man and two women – were arrested June 2 after a high-speed car chase that began in Tallahatchie County and ended in Yalobusha. The three – Ashley Carpenter, 25, and Misty Carpenter Ford, 30, both of 6545 Hwy. 32 E., Charleston; and Jay Sanderford, 21,…

State representaive Tommy Reynolds (center) presented Yalobusha County MSU Extension Service Director Steve Cummings with House Resolution 121, commending Cummings for three decades of service with the county. The resolution also praises Cummings for other duties, including service as District One Election Commissioner and as a volunteer with the Yalobusha Soil and Water Conservation District.…

URGENT – WEATHER MESSAGENATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN256 PM CDT FRI JUN 11 2010…PROLONGED HOT AND HUMID WEATHER EXPECTED THIS WEEKEND INTOEARLY NEXT WEEK….A DEEP TROPICAL SOUTHERLY FLOW WILL REMAIN IN PLACE AS A LARGE AREAOF HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY THISWEEKEND. HIGHS SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY SHOULD RANGE FROM THE MID…

By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – Twenty-five years doesn’t seem that long to Sammy Higdon. “But, if you say a quarter of a century,” said the retiring Water Valley School District Superintendent, “that’s a long time in one place.” Higdon, who leaves the district at the end of this month, came to the Water Valley…

By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – Dr. Deborah Moran, newly appointed Superintendent of the Water Valley School District, was on hand for her first School Board meeting Monday. Moran was visiting Water Valley with her two daughters, Haleigh Cuevas, a school principal, and Lisa Moran, a fourth grade teacher. They had been looking for a…

By David HowellEditor WATER VALLEY – Yalobusha supervisors approved an updated renters’ policy for the county-owned Multi-purpose Building at Monday’s board meeting. The move came after County Extension Director Steve Cummings advised county officials that the regulations governing the  rental of the county-owned Multi-purpose Building needed to be “tightened.” “There have been some birthday parties…

By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – Borg-Warner was granted two ad valorem tax exemptions on property with a total value of $1,655,435 at the regular monthly meeting of the City Board June 1. One was a freeport warehouse tax exemption for inventory valued at $1,041,484 and the other was for equipment installed before the end…

By David HowellEditor WATER VALLEY – With Yalobusha the sole county in Mississippi not participating in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), Yalobusha supervisors are fine-turning a flood ordinance and program to make the county eligible for enrollment.     During a two-hour work session at the “first Monday” meeting, held in Water Valley June 7, …