CITY OF WATER VALLEY BOARD MEETING for May 5, 2009  6:30 pm AGENDA      ************************************** 1. Call Meeting to Order 2. Approval of Agenda 3. Approval of Minutes 4. Burns Law Firm Invoice 5. WIA Summer Youth Employment program 6. Approval to purchase drinking water fountains 7. Bids on Stationary 80 KW Generator for Water…

The Water Valley High Blue Devil baseball team advanced to the MHSAA Class 2A semifinals with a 2-0 win over Hamilton Saturday.

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…

JACKSON – The Mississippi Army National Guard’s 155th Brigade Combat Team, headquartered in Tupelo mobilized under a Presidential Partial Mobilization of Reserve Forces in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom on Friday, May 1.     The members of the combat team, consisting of 3,400 soldiers, reported to their units Friday morning. Fourteen of the soldiers are…

    Is kudzu taking over your property?  Kudzu is one of the ten worst invasive species in the United States!  Do you know how to control kudzu?  Do you know that there are landowner assistance programs to help control kudzu?  If not, then come to the “Kudzu Control Workshop” to be held in Coffeeville.   …

By David HowellEditor WATER VALLEY – Beer and light wine sales in Yalobusha County nudged $2 million in 2008, according to the latest figures provided by the State Tax Commission who breaks down the information using distributors’ sales to retailers in the county.     The figures show that 33 retailers in the county purchased $1,729,885.57…

Staff Report WATER VALLEY – The 2009 Yalobusha County Relay For Life raised $65,501.03 and was a very successful event even if it didn’t make as quite as much money as last year, according to Glenda Gordon, event chairperson. “We may not have met this year’s goal, but we are so thankful and truly blessed,”…

Subject Area Test are underway this week at the Water Valley Schools. Last spring WVHS students Kyle Jones and Josh Sullivan made perfect scores in the tests. Kyle scored a perfect 500 in biology and Josh got his 500 score in U. S. history. Klye will be enrolling in the Mississippi School for Mathematics and…

By Jack Gurner Reporter WATER VALLEY – Yalobusha County’s unemployment is holding steady as she goes, according to latest numbers from the Mississippi Department of Employment Security. The March rate of 12.9 percent is same as the revised numbers for February. Yalobusha County was still higher than the five surrounding counties, but not by much.…

Four Of Five Alderman Seats Contested By David HowellEditor     The polls open next Tuesday at 7 a.m. and there is plenty of politicking in Water Valley as four of the five aldermen seats are hotly contested and two longtime political figures will face off in a rematch for the mayor’s seat.     The rematch…