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About 300 people attended the dedication ceremony for the Ford’s Well Recreation Area and Spyglass Hill Trail Thursday morning. The new facility includes a wrangler campground with 12 sites, gazebo, picnic shelter, comfort station, dump station, and a 17-mile multipurpose trail. Here just a portion of the Ford relatives and a fair size bunch of…

By David HowellEditor OAKLAND – Another casualty of the ill-fated beef processing plant surfaced in Monday’s supervisors meeting after Oakland Mayor Riley Swearengen reported that Oakland Yalobusha Natural Gas District is in arrears with one of the two U.S.D.A. loans that financed the construction of the gas district.     Swearengen told supervisors that the district’s…

CITY OF WATER VALLEY BOARD MEETING For October 6, 2009  6:30 pm AGENDA ************************************** 1. Approve Minutes2. Christmas Parade3. Cemetery Lots4. Flood Zone Map5. Brownfield Assistance6. Surplus Property7. Vivian Snider – Certification of Mandatory Municipal Clerk Training

  It’s not often you get a chance to buy a home and do a good deed for the community at the same time. But that opportunity is now available in Yalobusha County.   Reedy Acres Foundation has a house for sale. It’s a big home in a great neighborhood, and proceeds from the sale…

Staff Report OAKLAND – Windsor Foods will be taking applications in Water Valley next Tuesday for a new line that is expected to start up Nov. 2. Company officials will be in the Mechanics Bank Community Room from 2 until 6 p.m. on Oct. 13 to interview and take applications. Human Resource Manager Terry McMinn…

By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – There was a traffic jam on County Road 116 last Wednesday as a caravan of vintage vehicles arrived at the home of Janice and Odie Shuffield. The roughly 20 street rods were part of the Redneck Power Tour that had been working its way north from south Mississippi since…

  A rattlesnake and a potato shaped like a duck were among the unusual finds in Yalobusha County last week. Have you run across anything unusual in the county? You might bring it by for us to photograph.

By David HowellEditor WATER VALLEY –  The county’s former civil defense director has filed a federal lawsuit against Yalobusha County, alleging that supervisors and Sheriff William “Lance” Humphreys violated his First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.     Cecil Harrison filed the suit in federal court in Oxford last week, following his June termination after serving as…

The Farmer’s Market Fiesta and Antique Tractor Show was held Saturday. Several of Yalobusha County’s antique tractors were on display under the magnolias. The event was sponsored by the Water Valley Main Street Association.