By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – Water Valley lost a good friend last week and I lost a good neighbor. Thomas S. “Tommy” Swearengen died Wednesday, Feb. 11. He was best known in recent times as Alderman of Ward 3. His obituary is in the obituary section of this website and is posted below this…

By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – Last November BorgWarner Plant Manager Hans Werner predicted that things might get ugly at the local plant. “We are in the middle of the ugly,” Werner said Friday after another 30-plus employees were laid off with more to follow before the end of the month. “We are cutting out…

By David HowellEditor WATER VALLEY –The community will be opportunity to “pony up” to offset funding cuts scheduled for the upcoming school year, a move that could restore several athletic programs at the Water Valley School District in the coming school year, following a 4 – 1 vote at Monday night’s school board meeting.   …

Longtime Yalobusha County resident and Water Valley Alderman Tommy Swearengen died Wednesday at the Yalobusha General Hospital. A wake service was held Friday night at First Baptist Church. The funeral service was held in First Baptist Church at 10 a.m. Saturday morning. Burial was in Oak Hill Cemetery. More in this week’s North Mississippi Herald.

By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – High utility rates on electricity and natural gas are on the minds of consumers and Brandon Presley, Northern District Public Service Commissioner, will be in town this week to hear complaints. Presley will hold a “Ratepayers’ Forum” at the Yalobusha County Courthouse in Water Valley from 6 p.m. until…

One of the factors Mayor Bill Norris said he took into consideration when he vetoed the amendment to the amendment of the Water Resources Management Ordinance was a water rate study done by the Mississippi Rural Water Association. Aldermen questioned the rate study figures when first considering the amendment last December and again Feb. 3…

Below are the Legal/Public Notices which appear in the most recent issue of the North Mississippi Herald.  These notices are also available on-line along with those from participating Mississippi newspapers at the Mississippi Press Association website: http://publicnoticeads.com/MS/ Here, in one place, you now have access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to statewide…

YALOBUSHA – With three weeks and counting to qualify for municipal elections in the county, four new candidates have entered the races. Bobbie Joe Cox has qualified to run for Alderman of Ward One in Water Valley. He will be running against incumbent Charlie Harris. In Coffeeville, Marcia Stark has turned in her paperwork to…

COFFEEVILLE – Aldermen voted 3-0 to allow beer sales on Sunday after 1 p.m. during their regular monthly meeting Jan. 6. The amendment to the current beer ordinance came after Gerald Booker appeared before the board and made the request. According to the board minutes, Booker told the aldermen that the amendment would help to…

By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – At first the flu bug seemed bashful this year. Local healthcare professionals reported Friday that the bug hadn’t visited Yalobusha County. “We haven’t seen any yet,” said Becky Haley, LPN, at Dr. Joe Walker’s Family Practice Clinic. The Coffeeville Medical Clinic also report they hadn’t seen any positive cases.…