By David Howell COFFEEVILLE, Miss. – Following a split vote during a recessed county board meeting, Water Valley School District Superintendent Sammy Higdon was appointed to serve on the Northwest Mississippi Junior College Board of Trustees. The decision came  Monday in Coffeeville.     He will replace Aaron Burney, who had recently resigned due to health…

By David Howell  Editor VELMA, Miss. – Two teenagers are behind bars and another out on bail after being connected to at least three burglaries in the Velma community during recent months.     Brothers Dameon and Timothy Cook have been charged and with burglary for allegedly entering a residence and vandalizing it on June 24.…

    Starting July 1 anglers and hunters need to renew their Sportsman License to fish and hunt.     The 2006-07 license year ended June 30 and now is the time to make sure you’re legal when you hit the water on your next fishing trip or this fall when hunting season begins. A license may…

By William Browning Reporter  WATER VALLEY, Miss. – City residents should expect monthly garbage rates to jump from $9 to $10.50 on August 11. Commercial rates will also increase, anywhere from $8 to $10 monthly.       At the last Board of Aldermen meeting (July 3), aldermen voted to raise the rates in order to offset a…

By David Howell WATER VALLEY – Although a tentative decision had already been reached, Water Valley Aldermen formally approved allowing a farmer’s market to operate on Main Street during July and August on Saturdays.     That decision, as well as a vote to adopt an ordinance allowing a portion of tickets issue to fund Yalobusha…

By David Howell SARDIS – A Coffeeville man is out of jail after posting a $200,000 bond last Thursday.     Daryl Necaise had been locked up in the Yalobusha County jail since May 15, after being  charged in the May 11 shooting of Laurence Covington. His bond originally was set at $575,000 by Justice Court…

By William Browning Reporter WATER VALLEY, Miss. – In just over a month’s time, the beer petition rambling through Yalobusha County has doubled its number of signatures.     With an assertive movement that includes setting up booths across the county – and could involve a door-to-door march – members of the Yalobusha Progressive Association have…

By John Howell Contributing Writer ENID LAKE – Though not open to the public, the North Mississippi Fish Hatchery at Enid Dam has already produced crops of bass, triploid crappie, walleye and triploid grass carp this year. Now, hatchery manager Justin Wilkens and his staff are breeding flathead catfish. The fish hatchery, built between the…

By David Howell WATER VALLEY – An Oregon history teacher’s guardian angel came in the form of four volunteers with the Civil Air Patrol (CAP), who found his crashed plane last Wednesday in Lafayette County.     Dennis Steinbock of Klamath Falls, Oregon was making a cross-country trip in a Zodiak plane, piloting himself from Alabama…

By William Browning WATER VALLEY – At the recessed Board of Aldermen meeting last Tuesday (June 19), members of the Water Valley Main Street Association (MSA) stood before the aldermen, asking the city for financial support – a requirement if the group is to be inducted into the Mississippi Main Street Association.     “We’re asking…