WATER VALLEY – Only a week into the new year and planning is already underway for the 2025 Crappie Drop in Water Valley. A brain trust meeting is planned, explains James McCormick, who has helped organize the event during the last three drops. McCormick constructed the second generation crappie, a giant plywood crappie used in…

Dear Editor, I don’t spend much time in the middle of town, just passing through from the Local Express gas station (come for the fuel, stay for the view) to Larsons where a diesel truck brings me my Blue Bell. Today oddly shaped things come into view passing between the two. They are electric car…

I wasn’t even two years old when James “Jimmy” Carter was sworn in as our nation’s 39th President – too young to remember his presidency. And during my school years that followed, his time in office was too recent for our history books. Maybe this is why I enjoyed watching the ongoing media coverage about…

Well, it’s over. The longest Christmas Break in recent memory. I’m not sure if the break was technically longer than all the others but it certainly felt so. I enjoy a long holiday break as much as the next person but my bathroom scale has paid the price. Poor thing. If the holidays hadn’t ended…

As 2025 starts to unfold, the Water Valley Area Chamber of Commerce finds itself doing what all good Southern chambers do – raising a glass of sweet tea and wishing every one of our members a year packed with joy, success, and just enough excitement to keep life interesting. After all, who wants a dull…

10 Years Ago, January 8, 2015 – January marked the start of an election year for county positions and three long-time supervisors announced they would not seek re-election. District 5 Supervisor Frank “Bubba” Tillman, District 1 Supervisor Tommy Vaughn and District 2 Supervisor Amos Sims were retiring. Sims had served since 1992, Tillman since 1999…

I think the big topic this week is going to be the weather. Y’all it is cold!! Monday I went to Tupelo and it snowed the whole way. We all know I’m not too happy right now – I need summer back ASAP. We had a great service Sunday morning. Brother Grant Coffey brought us…

Thankfully our little storm Sunday afternoon and night wasn’t as bad as the weather man predicted for us, but we did get plenty of rain and thunder. And best of all, we had snow in Tillatoba Monday morning! Sammy McCracken informed me that old folks shouldn’t play in the snow. I wonder why he said…