All City of Water Valley offices and departments will be closed Monday, January 18, for the Martin Luther King holiday. Monday’s garbage route will run with Tuesday’s garbage route.   —————————-  Martin Luther King Jr. Day At the White House Rose Garden on November 2, 1983, President Ronald Regan. Following President George W. Bush’s 1992…

Yalobushians turned out in force Sunday afternoon for the opening of the Yalobusha Rural Health Clinic. 

By Jack GurnerReporter YALOBUSHA – We’re having a heat wave. At least that’s what it will feel like as temperatures rise into the 50’s. Last week’s predictions of up to two inches of snow didn’t materialize. But, there were still plenty of problems associated with the trace of frozen precipitation and the extremely cold weather.…

YALOBUSHA – County firefighters prepared for the worst as extremely cold temperatures moved into the area last week. State officials had briefed Yalobusha Emergency Management Agency (EMA) Director Frank Hyde on what to expect as temperatures plummeted. Fire risks increase as people try to keep warm. Hyde, who also service as County Fire Coordinator, said…

By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – City workers will no long receive compensation for being on-call after Aldermen voted to discontinue any monetary allowance or additional compensation. Details of the policy change are not known because the issue was handled behind closed doors in executive session at the Dec. 1 regular monthly meeting of the…

By David HowellEditor COFFEEVILLE – After almost three years of asking for an updated facility to house the health department in Water Valley, the state health department’s District Health Officer, Dr. Alfio Rausa, heard some good news from Yalobusha supervisors during the “first Monday” meeting held in Coffeeville Jan. 4.       That good news…

By David HowellEditor SCOBEY – Emergency officials were scrambling early Sunday morning after an automobile crash in Scobey killed one person and a stabbing at Windsor Foods critically injured a worker.     Coroner Ronnie Stark reported that Ben Love, 21,  of Tillatoba was killed in the automobile accident after his Ford F250 pickup overturned. Love…

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Firefighters battled a stubborn grass fire on County Road 230 just after noon on Monday. County volunteers from departments in Velma, Pine Valley, and Otuckalofa along with the county unit one from Water Valley worked for about two hours controlling the blaze which burned a shed and destroyed about 30 bales of hay. More in…

By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – The Yalobusha General Rural Health Clinic, the county’s new $2.2 million family medical facility, opened Tuesday to rave reviews from patients. “It’s wonderful. Absolutely gorgeous,” commented a patient early Tuesday morning in one of the two waiting rooms. Others echoed her comments. The closest thing to complaints came from…