Staff Report YALOBUSHA – County residents are already seeing activity by workers for the 2010 Census almost a year before the count is scheduled to begin. Census forms are scheduled to be mailed during March of 2010 with the actual count to begin after Census Day on April 1. Currently Census workers are performing address…

Paintings by Pati D’Amico are currently being featured in the lobby of Renasant Bank. The exhibit is the latest installment of a rotating show by local artists sponsored by the bank and the Water Valley Arts Council. Ten of D’Amico’s “slightly expressionistic” works are included in the show, which will run through the first week…

By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – Seventy-nine Water Valley seniors are candidates for diplomas in Thursday night’s graduation ceremony. The commencement will begin at 7 p.m., May 21, at the Tad Smith Coliseum. The class is the largest in the tenure of Dr. Glenn Kitchens, High School Principal who will welcome the attendees and introduce…

By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – It’s been six months since BorgWarner Plant Manager Hans Werner first predicted that things might get ugly at the local plant. “I think we are through the ugly,” Werner said Friday following a round of layoffs that he believes are the last significant cuts for this year. The latest…

Here is the WVHS Graduation section in PDF format.

We at Water Valley Main Street Association hope y’all can join us for the May viewing of our Movie On Main Series. This time we’re showing “From Russia With Love” starring Sean Connery! The movie is FREE and OUTSIDE! So, grab a chair and some friends and family and come on out to the corner…

The R&B group Soule will perform classic hits like Brown Eyed Girl, Electric Slide, My Girl and Too Proud to Beg. The group is based in Oxford and has performed at the Oxford Double Decker Festival, Friday Night Concert Series, and 4th of July Street Dance. They have also performed at the Batesville Street Festival.…

Staff Report WATER VALLEY – Stanley Crow, long time band director and music educator, has been presented the first Ed Shearer III Memorial Award for Artistic Achievement. The presentation was made  by Ramona Bernard and Bill Warren, co-directors of the Water Valley Arts Council, and David Hopple, a member of the Arts Council and Assistant…

By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – Voters in Ward Three will return to the polls Tuesday, May 19, for a runoff in the city’s Democratic Primary Election and officials are hoping that things will run more smoothly than they did on May 5. Phillip Tallant will face Rubye Carr for the Ward Three Alderman’s seat.…

The Main Street Market Festival offered a day full of fun for all ages, said organizers. For a look at all the photos taken by the Herald that day, please go to this link: www.nmherald.printroom.com