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…

Two youngsters were slightly injured when a school bus ran off Eckford Street and into a ditch Thursday afternoon. The driver told investigators that a white Ford Focus heading south in her lane caused the accident and then left the scene. There were 14 students and the driver aboard bus number 16, according to Mario…

By David HowellEditor     Tax talk has been a recurring theme around the county as Yalobushians received their tax bills at the end of 2007.     Many have seen an increase and want to know why.     Each year, supervisors work to prepare a fiscal year budget, beginning October 1, and this year was no…

By Jack GurnerReporter WATER VALLEY – The city will participate in the Great American Cleanup – Mississippi as part of preparations for the town’s sesquicentennial, according to Mayor Bill Norris. Water Valley will be 150 years old this year and a Founders Day celebration will be held April 19 in honor of the city’s creation…

By David Howell Editor     A squabble about a county road found its way to federal court in late January when Fletcher Fly sued Yalobusha County.     Fly is seeking to settle a dispute concerning the ownership County Road 161, an issue that has been festering for several years.     The matter seemed to come…