School Board Appoints Trustee, Interim Principals
WATER VALLEY – The Water Valley School Board appointed Jeremy Warren to serve as Position One Trustee. The appointment came in a school board meeting Monday night to fill a vacancy after Jill Clark stepped down last month. Clark had served five years. Warren will serve until a special election is held in November to…
Read MoreWV Firefighter Needs Your Help
WATER VALLEY – The Water Valley Fire Department has a problem and needs your help. The department received a shipment of 200 smoke detectors last week and boxes and boxes of them are stacked up in Fire Inspector Layth Terry’s office making it difficult for him to see over his desk. This should be a…
Read MoreAbsentee Voting Is Underway For Mayor’s Race
WATER VALLEY – Voters in the City of Water Valley will go to the polls on Feb. 13 to vote in the special election for mayor. Ron Hart, Tommy Reynolds and Terry Rockette qualified to run for the seat that was vacated after former Mayor Donald Gray resigned to take office as Yalobusha County Chancery…
Read MoreWinter Storm Coming Feb. 10? Hogwash
Somehow a vicious rumor is circulating about another blast of winter precipitation coming in mid-February. I asked several people about the origin of this rumor and Mickell Dunn thinks the Farmer’s Almanac first predicted this second winter storm. The funny thing, just as final layers of ice were melting from the last storm, this new…
Read MoreCousin Reports On Schooling Up North
It’s a Wagner Week and here is an interesting letter from John Wagner’s cousin, Hiram. Hiram is my third favorite Wagner (behind John’s first wife, Katie Becton and his funny Oxford gal pal, Gussie Avant). Hiram lived in Water Valley but attended various schools for the “deaf and mute” throughout his life. Here, Hiram is writing…
Read MoreRockette Organizes Black History Diversity Parade
Dear Editor, I am, Terry Rockette, the organizer and creator of the black history diversity parade. Within this event, I wanted to display black history through my eyes and celebrate all races and gender who helped abolish slavery – black, whites, Jews, Irish and many other races. I submitted the request to the city for…
Read MoreWV Generosity Contributed To Successful Shoebox Collection
Dear Editor, Generosity throughout Water Valley contributed to a successful shoebox gift collection season at drop-off locations for the Samaritan’s Purse project Operation Christmas Child. Across the U.S., the project collected 10 million shoebox gifts in 2023. Combined with those collected from partnering countries in 2023, the ministry is now sending over 11.3 million shoebox…
Read MoreLook Back In Yalobusha History
• 15 years ago, Feb. 5, 2009 – Unemployment jumped to 12 percent in Yalobusha County putting the county in the “top ten” for unemployment in the state. School board members looked for ways to salvage several jobs and sports programs during their February meeting. Programs on the chopping block included volleyball, 7th and 8th…
Read MoreTillatoba News
Christian love and sympathy to the Beverly Lawson Hankins family. With her family by her side, Beverly Jewel Lawson Hankins, 67, passed from this life to the next on January 24. The visitation was held at First Baptist Church in Ripley last Saturday with the service following at 2 p.m. Ladies were encouraged to wear…
Read MoreObituaries 02/01/2024
Margaret Lucille Melton Hardy SOUTHAVEN – Margaret Lucille Melton Hardy passed away on December 29, 2023, at Desoto Healthcare in Southaven after a hard battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was a loving and adored daughter, sister, aunt, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Lucille was born in Big Creek on January 28, 1945, the third daughter of…
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