By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – Cell phone and wireless broadband service will be improving this year in Mississippi, Northern District Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley told the Water Valley Rotary Club. AT&T plans to construct over 60 new cell phone towers and upgrade over 200 sites statewide to provide 3G wireless broadband. “This effort…

COFFEEVILLE – Coffeeville Fire Chief Mack Burns (top photo) scoops up debris after a two-car crash on Hwy. 330 last Friday. A white auto traveling eastbound collided with a blue car turning into the parking lot of the Hwy 330 Superstop around 1 p.m. Witnesses described the collision as a “horrific crash” that knocked the…

WATER VALLEY – Businessman Fred White wants to help solve the recent burglaries in the City and is putting up his own money to help with the cause. White, who also serves as Ward One Alderman, is offering a $1000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the burglary…

COFFEEVILLE – Firefighters were called out around 11 p.m. Friday to a fire on County Road 212. The caller told the 911 dispatcher that there was a grass fire with a structure possibly in danger. When Coffeeville volunteers arrived on the scene they found an unoccupied house mostly consumed by fire. The Velma Fire Department…

WATER VALLEY – Emergency medical responders and rescue were were called to a rollover crash just south of the city limits on County Road 436 Saturday around 2:30 a.m. It was originally believed that two people were trapped in the overturned truck. However, it was determined that rescue was not needed. Water Valley Police went…

Water Valley firefighters were called to SprintMart around 7:45 Thursday when a light fixture caught fire. A store employee turned off power to the lights which helped put out the blaze. There was some initial concern because the fire was above the store’s gas pumps. Damage was limited to the area around the fixture. View…

See a preview on You Tube. ENID LAKE – An original art show “Outdoor Imagination,” featuring the work of young artists from Imagination Station of Water Valley, opens at the North Mississippi Fish Hatchery Visitor Education Center at Enid Lake this Saturday, March 20. A reception at 1:30 p.m. kicks off this first day of…

Staff Report     The following defendants were sentenced by Judge Andrew Baker during a plea day held in February.     • Robert Cooper pleaded guilty to one count of auto burglary and was sentenced to seven years in the Mississippi Department of Corrections with no years to serve;     • Robert Cooper pleaded guilty to…

By David HowellEditor COFFEEVILLE – Following an intense 36 hour search, the Yalobusha Sheriff’s Department arrested a Coffeeville man sought in connection with possible arson and alleged burglary of a residence.     James Bardo was arrested March 10, after he had initially evaded authorities during a foot chase in the early morning hours on March …

Staff Report WATER VALLEY – Yalobusha County’s unemployment rate is still on the rise going from 14.1 percent in December to 17.2 in January. Unemployment in the county is the highest it has been for January in the past five years topping the January 2009 rate by 2.5 percentage points. And, it is more than…