A line of severe thunderstorms passed through the area Thursday night into Friday morning causing some minor damage. A tree was reported down on Calhoun Street near the intersection with Wood Street and the Electric Department had to respond to several power outages around the city. This photo shows a severe thunderstorm that passed south…

By David HowellEditor COFFEEVILLE – Using a powerpoint presentation, Sheriff Lance Humphreys unveiled a plan Monday at a recessed supervisors’ meeting in Coffeeville to build a new $2.5 million jail that would house 56 county and pre-trial inmates and 25 joint-state worker inmates.     Humphreys’ told supervisors he could build and operate the jail without…

By David HowellEditor COFFEEVILLE – County supervisors began divvying offices in the freshly acquired Carothers Building at their July 7 board meeting held in Coffeeville. Supervisors voted to allocate just over a third of the 30-plus offices and space at the house located adjacent to the building for the Department of Human Services offices currently…

Staff Report WATER VALLEY – The new Mayor and Board of Aldermen held their first meeting on Tuesday, July 7. It was a brief 32-minute session during which they took care of mostly basic city business including some left over from last month. Their first action was to enter go into executive session to discuss…

By Jack GurnerReporter OAKLAND – A Tennessee pilot may owe his life to a patch of Mississippi kudzu. Cass Choate of Oakland, Tenn., was seriously injured Wednesday, July 8, when his single-engine aircraft crashed into a kudzu-covered wooded area about three-quarters of a mile east of I-55 and about 300 feet south of Hwy. 32.…

Yalobusha County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) Director Frank Hyde (right) steadies the boat as Panola County EMA Director Daniel Cole (left) and Panola dive team  member Jacky Chapman prepare to search the water at Enid Lake near Plum Point last Saturday. The group was searching for a submerged car, after a tipster reported a vehicle…

The O’Tuckalofa Open Golf Tournament will be held Saturday, Aug. 1, at the Yalobusha County Club. The tournament benefits the North Central Mississippi Service Center of the Red Cross headquartered in Oxford and serving six counties including Yalobusha. The tournament is a two person Ryder Cup format with shotgun starts from 9 a.m. until 1:30…

By David HowellEditor WATER VALLEY – If it sounds too good to be true, it is, warns Sheriff Lance Humphreys after taking a report that a Water Valley lady lost almost two grand in a recent international scam.     Humphreys said his department took a report after the victim received a check for $1,895.22. The…

By David HowellEditor Yalobusha’s Economic Development District Director, Bob Tyler, reported his department has several projects ongoing.     Tyler said an update is imminent involving the North Mississippi Railroad Coalition, a group he was instrumental in starting after state officials learned that CN Railroad were in the process of selling its Grenada Line, which included…

HATTIESBURG -Steffi River will represent Water Valley in the 60th Anniversary Mississippi Miss Hospitality Pageant, July 26th – August 1st at the Saenger Theater in downtown Hattiesburg.        Steffi is the daughter of Keith and Jayne River. She attends the University of Mississippi and is majoring in Business. Steffi hopes to attend law school…