By David HowellEditor WATER VALLEY –     A longtime Yalobusha company  is a step closer to moving to its new facility in neighboring Lafayette County after county supervisors officially voted to accept the company’s property as a donation in a recessed meeting held last Thursday.     In what has been described as a bittersweet deal,…

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…

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.…

Parades Planned In Coffeeville,Water Valley, Open House In Oakland By David HowellEditor The holiday seasons has kicked into high gear across Yalobusha County.      At 1 p.m.Saturday, the anticipated Water Valley Christmas Parade rolled down Main Street. This year, Dr. and Mrs. Paul (Ervalene) Odom are grand marshals, leading the parade.     “The Tri-Lake…

By Jack Gurner Reporter WATER VALLEY – Yalobusha County’s unemployment rate for October was up from September and also rose more than two percent from October of last year, according to the latest figures released by the Mississippi Department of Employment Security. The October figure of 9.7 percent unemployment is the highest recorded for the month…