Reading food labels is the best way to purchase the healthiest foods for you and your family. Unfortunately, many people find it difficult, confusing, and even overwhelming to sort through the nutrition facts label. Food manufacturers often highlight health and nutrition on the front of packaging, ostensibly to make it easier for consumers to make…

Homecoming at Tillatoba Baptist Church is Sunday, Sept. 27, at 10 a.m. Brother Ted Darby will bring our message. Due to remodeling in our sanctuary, worship will be in the fellowship hall.  No meal will be provided and the church family request to please wear a mask. Congratulations to Presley McMillian, who won first place…

I was 14 years old in 1957 when the Russians launched Sputnik, the world’s first successful satellite, and I well remember the fervor that event generated in this country.  There was sudden fear that we were lagging behind our most menacing adversary. At the time, the fear certainly seemed justified since it was just the…

It’s a Wagner Week and here’s a letter to Ed from Minnie. I don’t know what the Peace Institute is and the letter didn’t have an envelope, so I couldn’t determined from what post office it was mailed. So that remains a mystery to me. I do know that Minnie’s fortune-telling match trick is something…

Last week’s column was on federal and state historic tax credits (HTC). The HTCs are important as they have been and are currently being used in Water Valley to fix the most abandoned of our downtown buildings. It is no stretch to say that without these federal and state credits, those buildings would have remained…