Exploring: Coming Home Opens Eyes By William BrowningReporter (Editor’s Note: This is the second in a three-part series looking at the past, present and future of Water Valley growth.)     WATER VALLEY, Miss. – Some things don’t change.     Glancing 50 years back, a four month stretch in 1958 saw the pages of this newspaper…

Exploring: The Ones At The Helm By William BrowningReporter (Editor’s Note: This is the third in a three-part series looking at the past, present and future of Water Valley growth.) WATER VALLEY, Miss. – The conventions of Lilliputian municipalities call a mayor, in the military sense, to attention. Having taken office, he begins a four-year…

Main Street Maps Out Goals,Looks To City For Funding By Alexe van Beuren Reporter Hernando Mayor Chip Johnson,  and Bob Barber, Director of Planning, will present a program during the June 5 meeting of the Water Valley Rotary Club. The topic will be what the Main Street Association has accomplished in Hernando over the past…

Fox 13 News Came to Town to interview World War 2 Veteran

Fox 13 News Came to Town to interview World War 2 Veteran

Former ‘Serial Rapist’ To Have Fourth Parole Hearing Soon By David HowellEditor A man who raped at least eight women in Yalobusha County will soon be eligible for parole for the fourth time. John Eddie Gordon, once dubbed “The Water Valley Rapist,” has been behind bars since his initial arrest on August 12, 1986, but…

Voters Will Receive Notices Identifying Where To Vote By David HowellEditor     Yalobusha County voters should be receiving notices in the next few weeks from Election Commissioners and Circuit Clerk Daryl Burney instructing the proper place to vote.     “Ninety percent of the voters will be voting where they have been all along,” Election Commissioner…

High School Students Earn State Distinction By David HowellEditor         The timing was almost eerie as seven Water Valley High School students at the East Lab completed a three-month project mapping 238 city fire hydrants using global positioning technology.     Their field work included a visit to each fire hydrant in town, working an…

One Step At A Time: Windsor Deal Moving By David HowellEditor         Yalobusha supervisors are awaiting the return of an operating agreement from Windsor Foods that would move the county one step closer to finalizing a deal that would locate the Houston-based company to Oakland in the building that formerly housed Mississippi Beef Processors,…

By David Howell     Two divisions of the Mississippi Department of Human Services (DHS) in Yalobusha County are looking for a new home.     The Family and Children’s Division and Child Support Enforcement Divisions currently share a Main Street Building in Water Valley that will be torn down later this summer.     The building, located…