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, …

State inmates from the Yalobusha County Jail are picking up trash in the county three days a week under a MDOC funded program administered by the sheriff’s department. Deputy Paul Phillips tosses a bag into a trailer load of trash picked up along the Hwy. 7 bypass last Friday.                 – Photo by…

Staff Report WATER VALLEY – Yalobusha County’s unemployment rate is still dropping for the year going from 15.4 percent in March to 14.5 percent in April. Unemployment in the county is still the highest it has been for April in the past five years, topping the April 2006 rate by almost 8 percentage points. And,…

By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – A long range plan for revitalizing the downtown streetscape was presented last Friday morning at the Water Valley Main Street Association office. The presentation was the result of a week-long study sponsored by Mississippi Main Street and conducted by Tom McGilloway and Nathan Scott, landscape architects with Mahan Rykiel…

View the video on YouTube. By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – About 100 people gathered downtown at the Veteran’s monument in Railroad Park for a Memorial Day ceremony honoring those who have made the ultimate sacrifice. After a steady decline in past years, the number of participants at the ceremony is growing. “Maybe it’s because…