By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – Circuit Clerk Daryl Burney is urging Yalobusha voters to participate in next Tuesday’s runoff after just over 10 percent of the county’s registered voters participated in the special election on April 22. Tuesday’s election will decide whether Democrat Travis Childers or Republican Greg Davis will represent the First Congressional…

City Crime Water Valley Police took a report of counterfeiting last week when a bogus $100 bill was passed at a local convenience store. The bill looked authentic, according to police, and passed the marker test since it was made using a legitimate $5 bill. It was detected because the watermark portrait was of Lincoln…

CITY OF WATER VALLEY BOARD MEETING May 6, 2008 6:30 PM AGENDA     ************************************** Call Meeting to OrderApproval of AgendaApproval of MinutesGrave openings & closings in City CemeteriesStorage Building quotes at Sports ComplexMosquito Sprayer QuotesGrass Cutting BidsGarbage Bag Rate increase approval to $ 8.00 per boxBurns Law Firm InvoiceDavid Burns ——– Speed BumpsDavid Burns ——–…

Many of our readers have asked to see the photos from the Founders Day events and the Relay For Life. Those photos are available at www.nmherald.printroom.com Click on the link and you’ll be taken to the Printroom.com site where you can view and even purchase photographs. All profit from the photographs will go to either…

Herald graphic artist Melody Smith is celebrating a monumental birthday today. Of course, we are not going to reveal her age, but Melody’s friend,  a prominent Water Valley realtor, did not want to day to pass unnoticed.     

Rock band 4Evermore will perform SATURDAY from 7 to 9 p.m. on Main Street at the Pavilion.  The Lions Club will cook hamburgers and O’Tuck youth will offer ice cream at the event, which is sponsored by the Water Valley Chamber of Commerce. The band was formerly known as Derek Stone from Tupelo. If you…

    The Yalobusha Board of Supervisors will have their next regularly scheduled meeting Monday morning, May 5, at the Coffeeville Courthouse at 9 a.m.     The following items are on the agenda, which is subject to change. Items may be removed or added until the actual meeting time. • Approval of Minutes • Request for…

Jessica Smith (center) was crowned Watermelon Queen at the Watermelon pageant held April 12. Amber Nicole Burney (left) was first alternate and Heather Nicole Suber (right) was second alternate. The pageant was hosted by the Water Valley Junior Auxilliary. More watermelon royalty pictures will be published in next week’s edition of the Herald.            …

By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – Sherman Harley appeared before the Planning Commission at its regular meeting Monday night, April 21, with a proposal for an apartment complex project to be located on Calhoun Street. Harley, who described himself as a resident of the city for more than 50 of its 150 years, presented tentative…

By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – The 2008 Yalobusha County Relay For Life raised $83,506.37, exceeding their goal and topping their 2007 total by about $3500, according to Jonnie Mayo, event chairperson. The annual spring fundraiser for the American Cancer Society culminated last Friday evening at the Crawford Sports Complex. Preparations began early in the…