Federal Court Asked to Order New Alderman Election WATER VALLEY – A Water Valley city employee has filed a federal lawsuit against the city, claiming its four aldermanic wards are unconstitutionally divided and asking a judge to order new ward boundaries and an immediate election for the city’s four ward aldermen. Deborah Jackson, an employee…

WATER VALLEY – Yalobusha County voters will head to the polls Tuesday, Nov. 3, to decide several contested federal and judicial races, with Saturday marking the final opportunity to cast an absentee ballot in person. Circuit Clerk Daryl Burney said his offices at the Water Valley and Coffeeville courthouses will be open from 8 a.m.…

A burn ban has been imposed in Yalobusha County, joining approximately 60 counties across Mississippi where prolonged dry weather and worsening drought conditions have raised concerns about wildfires. The National Weather Service reported earlier this month that portions of northwest Mississippi were experiencing extreme to exceptional drought conditions  contributing to hundreds of wildfires across the…

WATER VALLEY – Water Valley’s new city clerk has identified a series of problems with the city’s financial recordkeeping, including checks dating back several years that were never deposited, incomplete bank reconciliation records, unprocessed tax-sale transactions and more than 40 bank accounts that complicate the management of city funds. Joy Welch, who began work Oct.…

WATER VALLEY – Yalobusha County supervisors voted Monday to spend more than $1 million from the county’s general fund reserves in an effort to release millions of dollars in federal reimbursements for cleanup expenses from Winter Storm Fern. The action came during the board’s Oct. 19 meeting after Board President Cayce Washington reported that approximately…