Eighth Grade Blue Devils Begin Season With Victory Over Charleston Tigers
Staff Report WATER VALLEY – On Tuesday, August 27, the Water Valley Blue Devils hosted nearby rival Charleston for a Seventh, Eighth, and Junior Varsity Football contest. The 8th Grade Blue Devils began their season with a dominant 14 to zero victory over the stout Tigers. In the opening frame, the seventh grade Blue Devils…
Read MoreA Journey Of Faith – Landmark House Is Restored
WATER VALLEY – It’s been a year since Amala Dass nearly walked away from one of his life’s most strenuous challenges. After laboring to restore a grand, historic, two-story house on Markette Street for over 18 months, Dass had lost hope. This tipping point came last August – Dass had blown both his budget and…
Read MoreOakland Man Indicted For Murder By Grand Jury
By Clay McFerrin Sun-Sentinel Editor CHARLESTON – An Oakland man charged in the August 2023 shooting death of a Coffeeville woman has been indicted by a Tallahatchie County grand jury. Bobby Arnez Taylor, 42, of 89 County Road 601, Oakland, faces charges of first-degree murder, attempt to commit murder and grand larceny of a motor…
Read MorePolice Probe Bizarre Hit And Run
WATER VALLEY – City officers are investigating a hit-and-run following a bizarre incident that occurred Monday morning on Wood Street. Water Valley Police Chief Jason Mangrum reported officers responded to a residence on Wood Street around 11 a.m. after a property owner dialed 911 to report a man was outside his vehicle with his britches…
Read MoreTVEPA Receives Preliminary Award For Fiber Deployment
WATER VALLEY– The Office of Broadband Expansion and Accessibility of Mississippi (BEAM) has announced the approval of grant funding for nine broadband projects across Mississippi including funding for areas in Water Valley. The news comes as Tallahatchie Valley and its subsidiary, TVIfiber, have collaborated with the BEAM office during the last 18 months on a…
Read MoreWater Valley Was Always Home
This week’s story about Amala Dass’ project to restore the Markette Street house is one of my favorites in a long time. I have known Amala for almost a decade, first connecting with him at Parchman as we both served with Kairos Prison Ministry. I rarely saw Amala the last few years and I discovered…
Read MoreHill Country Living
It’s a Wagner Week! Here’s a letter to Jessie from a classmate at Wellesley College outside Boston. I edited it for length but it’s a great description of college life at this all-girls school. January 23, 1897 My dear friend Jesse, Brownie and I had a mildly gay time in Boston. We were respectably Bohemian.…
Read MoreMaggitt Charged With ’84 Oakland Bank Robbery
• 15 years ago, Sept. 3, 2009 – Yalobusha County had the sixth highest unemployment in the state for the past July at 17.4 percent. The average for the past five years had been 9.5 percent. The Arts Council was presenting the city’s first studio crawl on Sept. 18. The Blue Devils came up short…
Read MoreObituaries 08/29/2024
Gary Lane Bolen WATER VALLEY – Gary Lane Bolen, a beloved husband, father, brother, and friend, peacefully left this world on August 19, 2024, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford. Born on September 5, 1945, in Crenshaw, Gary was a skilled carpenter in the construction industry, dedicating 40 years to his craft. Gary was a…
Read MoreTillatoba News
Love and sympathy is extended to the family of Joy Calder Walton. Joy, of Tillatoba, passed away Wednesday, August 21, 2024 at the Baptist Hospital in Oxford at the age of 74. She was laid to rest at the Union Cemetery in Tillatoba. We had a surprise visit last week from our friend, Elizabeth McKinney,…
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