By John Howell Sr. Tallahatchie Valley Electric Power Association (TVEPA) customers are asked to reduce consumption of electricity as generating demands on the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) rise to record highs, TVEPA spokesman Margaret Russell said. No curtailments are slated, Russell said during a Thursday morning interview. “It’s on a day-to-day basis,” she added, but…

By William Browning Amy McMinn grossed $84,816 last year acting as Yalobusha County’s Chancery Clerk. McMinn also made $11,611 serving as the county’s law librarian and inventory clerk in 2006, bringing the total to $96,427 – making McMinn the highest paid employee of Yalobusha County. Of that total amount, taxpayers paid $46,900. The remaining $49,527…

By William Browning TILLATOBA – If you found yourself driving County Road 161 on the afternoon of August 6, the kudzu lapping the roadsides was old, and the gravel beneath your tires new. And the cabin you eventually met – sitting nigh in the middle of the road – was begun by Fletcher Fly in…

By David Howell        The Mississippi Supreme Court overturned an order from Chancellor Mitch Lundy restricting school-sponsored outdoor activities Friday afternoon.    Lunday had issued a temporary restraining order Thursday that prohibited football, band and other activities from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. In this order, Judge Lundy referenced a heat advisory issued by the National…

By William BrowningReporter WATER VALLEY – In Yalobusha County’s most hotly contested race, with six candidates vying for the sheriff’s seat, Incumbent Lance Humphreys and candidate Jamie Caldwell are set for an August 28 runoff.     Humphreys tallied 1,924 votes while Caldwell pulled 975 in the August 7 Democratic Primary.     Johnny Sossaman was the…

  Schools in the Water Valley School District officially opened Tuesday  for the 2007-08 school year.  The Staff for the school year includes: Sammy Higdon, Superintendent; Anthony Barnes, Assistant Superintendent/Federal Programs Director; Glenn Kitchens, High School Principal; Chester Drewery, Elementary School Principal; Rickey Babb, Assistant High School Principal; Carol Gary, District Test Coordinator/Elementary School Assistant Principal;…

Chancellor Mitchell M. Lundy, Jr. of Grenada issued today a temporary restraining order that prohibits outside sports-related activities in DeSoto, Tate, Panola, Grenada, Yalobusha and Montgomery counties.    The order holds from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. each day until further notice.    Water Valley High – presumably with every other school in the six county area…

By William Browning Reporter WATER VALLEY – Describing what she hears on Main Street as “vulgar” and “despicable,” one citizen asked city leaders Tuesday night, “If we have a noise ordinance, what’s happened to it?” At the August 7 Board of Aldermen meeting, Carol Brown said that loud music pouring out of vehicles in the…

WATER VALLEY – Hours after the North Mississippi Herald hit the streets Wednesday morning with a plea from Water Valley Police Captain Roger Thomas asking for public help to catch an indicted sex-offender, Curtis Sea was arrested.    Thomas said that his department had been actively hunting Sea since he was indicted on nine counts of…

8By David Howell Editor WATER VALLEY – In one of the hardest fought races in the county, Incumbent Circuit Clerk Daryl Burney received almost 63 percent of the 4,909 votes cast Tuesday. Burney received 3,079 votes to Tina Stevens’ 1,830 votes  in an unofficial vote tally.     Burney pulled 10 of the 11 precincts, only…