By David Howell Editor WATER VALLEY – Work is underway at home and and in the state’s capital to gain legislative support for constructing a regional jail in Yalobusha County.     The project moved forward last Thursday as Yalobusha Supervisors voted to hire a consultant and House Bill 988 moved out of the House corrections…

Water Valley Police Capt. Roger Thomas reported the following activity in the Water Valley City limits during the past week: • Made two arrests for driving under suspension; • Made two arrests for possession of a controlled substance; • Made two arrests for simple domestic assault; • Made one arrest for public drunk; • Made…

   Sales tax figures released by the Mississippi Tax Commission  showed that overall sales tax collected in Water Valley dipped slightly while Coffeeville and Oakland both recorded healthy increases.     Sales tax figures released by the Mississippi Tax Commission  showed that overall sales tax collected in Water Valley dipped slightly while Coffeeville and Oakland both…

by David HowellEditor     An Oxford company has been busy through the weekend moving equipment into the Water Valley industrial park in the building that formerly housed Steele Manufacturing.     After one of Caterpillar’s key parts plants, located in Oxford, sustained heavy damage in last Tuesday’s tornado, Water Valley businessman Cayce Washington offered the use…

If you are heading north to Lafayette County via the “back way” you can’t get there from here. A bridge on CR 387 just north of the Yalobusha County line is being replaced with a box culvert. Once demolition begins on the bridge in a few days the road will be closed for possibly two…

WASHINGTON, Feb 08, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — The U.S. Small Business Administration will make low-interest disaster recovery loans available to Mississippi residents and businesses affected by the severe storms and tornadoes on February 6, 2008, SBA Administrator Steve Preston announced today. Administrator Preston took this action following a February 6 letter from Mississippi Governor…

Circuit Clerk Daryl Burney provided this map of the Districts of Yalobusha County

By David HowellEditor     A Senate Bill introduced last Thursday will put Yalobusha County in the hunt for a joint regional/county jail that would be financed by the state. Senator Grey Tollison authored Senate Bill 2584 which would authorize the Mississippi Department of Corrections to contract with Yalobusha County for a regional prision.     The…

Hayden Mitchell, eight-year-old son of Kenny Mitchell and the late Dr. Nina Evans Mitchell, of Holcomb exercised one of his market hogs Friday morning, Feb. 1, at the Dixie National Livestock Show on the Mississippi Fairgrounds in Jackson. A participant in Leflore County 4-H, Mitchell is in his second year with the market hog contest.…

    The Board of Supervisors have scheduled a recessed meeting on Tuesday, February 19, at 9 a.m. at the third floor board room of the Water Valley Courthouse.     The meeting was scheduled to discuss a potential interlocal agreement between Yalobusha and Panola County regarding drug interdiction on I-55. Sheriff Lance Humphreys presented the agreement…