I hope everyone had a great week. We’re in that time between Christmas and New Year’s where we don’t know who we are or what day it is. I decided to get sick, so I’ve been pretty much holed up in the house. My daughter, Emily, left Christmas Day and went to Kansas. She went…

A federal lawsuit filed in June by eight people who formerly worked at Holley Carburetor and/or BorgWarner is slowly churning through the legal system. You may recall, Greenville attorneys George Hollowell, Jr. and Andrew Tominello held a press conference the day they filed the lawsuit, and multiple media outlets covered the story including news stations…

Merry post-Christmas-New Year’s to everyone! This column won’t reach many readers until after New Year’s Day when all in the world will feel clear and new. But I’m writing the column in the hazy days between Christmas and New Year’s. This is the “lost week” in which finding out what day of the week it…

• 15 Years Ago, January 8, 2009 – Taken on the last day of the previous year, a front page picture showed the final paperwork being signed for Carothers Construction to donate property valued at $1.4 million to the county. It was described as a bittersweet deal as the company prepared to moved to a…

P. Kevin Hughes was appointed as a Southern Governor for the Mississippi Funeral Directors Association. Originally from Water Valley, Kevin discovered his passion for funeral service at age 12, inspired by his town’s funeral director, Hamric Henry. After high school, he began working at Browning Funeral Home in Water Valley in 1990 while attending mortuary…

Happy New Year to all my faithful readers. I wish for all of you a wonderful, healthy and prosperous New Year! Christian love and sympathy to the Sandy McLellan Sturdivant family of Tillatoba. Sandy passed away Wednesday, December 25, at Grenada Lake Medical Center. She was such a sweet lady with a heart of gold.…

Welcome back to the last Inside the Blue and White report from 2024! It is so hard to believe that we are already halfway done with the school year. It has surely flown by fast and students are enjoying the holidays with their friends and family. During our last week of school the focus was…

WATER VALLEY – Anticipation is building for the New Year’s Eve celebration on Main Street as work continues to ensure this year’s Crappie Drop is another resounding success. In a nod to the world record five-pound, three ounce white crappie caught at Enid Lake in 1957, Water Valley’s first annual Crappie Drop was held on…