The award was presented to WVMSA Director Mickey Howley at the annual MMSA luncheon held Thursday, June 25, in Jackson. The goal of the project was to “clean, paint, and polish up Duncan Street’s appearance,” Howley said. Volunteers ranging from business owners, high school students, church groups and WVMSA members worked four Saturdays in October…

Sellers Calls Yalobusha Home Staff Report OXFORD- Calvin Sellers, chief of police at the University of Mississippi and a former Yalobusha County resident, has been named president of the Mississippi Campus Law Enforcement Officers Association. Sellers, a member of the association for more than 20 years, said he’s seen the good MCLEOA does in helping…

White Is Convicted Of Violating Ordinance He Helped Pass In 2003 By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – Ward Two Alderman Fred White was found guilty in City Court last Thursday of violating the “junk ordinance” and was fined $500 and given 90 days in jail. Municipal Judge Trent Howell told White that he would suspend…

Staff Report OXFORD – Ray Hawkins of Water Valley, assistant chief of police at the University of Mississippi, has been named Officer of the Year by the Mississippi Law Enforcement Officers Association. Hawkins joined the UM’s Department of Police and Campus Safety in December 1996 after serving with the Water Valley Police Department for over…

WATER VALLEY – Yalobusha County’s unemployment reached 16.4 percent in May, the highest rate in 22 years.     In late 1986, unemployment in the county topped out at 21.1 percent before dropping to 7.5 percent by the end of 1987.     The current rate is double that of a year ago when unemployment for May…

All City of Water Valley offices and departments will be closed Friday, July 3, 2009 for the Fourth of July holiday. Commercial garbage route will run Friday.

Staff Report     Mississippi State Trooper Rodney Williams moved to Water Valley last year, purchasing a brand new house on Wood Street. This June, U.S.D.A. Rural Development recognized Williams for becoming a new homeowner in conjunction with National Home Ownership Month.     Williams came to Water Valley from Clarksdale, where he was renting a home.…

Sheriff Makes Gambling Arrests By Jack GurnerReporter TILLATOBA – Sheriff Lance Humphreys seized a pair of illegal poker machines from the Pit Stop in Tillatoba on Tuesday. Humphreys said that he was making a beer permit inspection of the establishment when the machines were observed in a back room. Current owner of the business is…

Volunteers from the Fuller Center for Housing have completed nine housing upgrade projects in Yalobusha County during the past year and another is in progress. Locations include four in Coffeeville, two in Water Valley, two in Oakland, one in Tillatoba, and one in the Airmount Community. Working on the home of Emma Jean Benson near…

Music in the Park – The band “Soule” wasn’t able to perform for what was to be the final Music in the Park on June 12 due to stormy weather, according to Bennett Hill, president of the Water Valley Area Chamber of Commerce. So, the band will be downtown at the pavilion in Railroad Park…