By David HowellEditor WATER VALLEY –  Water from the county-owned well located at Windsor Foods near Oakland will continue to flow into pipes that serve customers on the  Billy’s Creek Water Association after supervisors approved a contract extension during a recessed meeting held last Thursday in Water Valley.     The association, which serves customers in…

Valley residents are certainly showing their creativity for the Christmas season.

By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – Monday afternoon John Tatum leaned on a mop handle and looked around his restaurant. It had been almost a week since heavy rains caused sewage to overflow into the White Star Café closing the Main Street eatery and bar. Tatum was sanitizing the floor with a dilute mixture of…

Increases Buck Statewide Trend By David HowellEditor Although modest, Yalobusha municipalities each have recorded a tax collection increase for the first four months of the current fiscal year that began July 1.     Water Valley has recorded the largest percent increase, at 10 percent, compared to the first four months of the previous fiscal year.…

City Crime Report WATER VALLEY – During a preliminary hearing in City Court on Dec. 4, Yolanda Hawkins was bound over to a grand jury. Hawkins has been charged with murder for allegedly shooting Hugh E. Nicholson on Nov. 16. Judge Trent Howell set bond at $25,000 and returned Hawkins to the custody of Yalobusha…

COFFEEVILLE – Aldermen continued the discussion of the sale of an acre of land located on the Hwy. 7 bypass during their regular monthly meeting Nov. 4. The issue was brought forward from the October meeting. Mayor Mack Burns reported to the board that he had discussed with Gerald Booker his interest in purchasing the…

The Water Valley Community Band will present their Christmas Concert Sunday, December 14, beginning at 2:30 p.m., in the Water Valley Civic Auditorium. Admission will be $5. The program will include: Kiefer’s Special March, Merry Christmas Everyone!, A Christmas Interlude, Allied Honor, Themes from the Nutcracker Suite, Deep River Rhapsody, and The Name’s Claus…Santa Claus.…

By Jack GurnerReporter OAKLAND – It starts as a nerve rattling sound that alerts Yalobusha firefighters that somewhere in the county’s 495 square miles their services are needed. Sometimes days pass before the warbling “tone-out” shatters the silence of the county fire radio frequency. At other times, the calls will follow one another by just…

By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – Residents are being urged by city officials to bag their leaves and not just dump them street side. “Please bag them!” Mayor Bill Norris pleaded during opening comments at the regular first Tuesday meeting of the City Board on Dec. 2. “Put them in a box or sack or…

  By Jack Gurner Reporter WATER VALLEY – The board of aldermen will lower the water rate for industrial users if they adopt a proposed amendment in January to the Water Resources Management Ordinance. The amendment would return the rates for the industrial classification to the level they were before the increase aldermen approved just…