Electricity Cost Will Increase 4.5 Percent
WATER VALLEY – Starting next month the city’s electric department customers will pay more for electricity following a 4.5 percent rate hike from Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The rate increase was announced by TVA late last month as the entity plans to invest $15 billion over the next three years to build additional generation and…
Read MoreDewberry Sentenced To Life Plus 40 Years
WATER VALLEY – A Water Valley man was sentenced to life in prison plus 40 years after a jury convicted him of sexual battery of a child under 14, fondling a child and child pornography possession. Circuit Judge Smith Murphey told Timothy Aaron Dewberry, 42, that his days of freedom were over as he handed…
Read MoreJunior Blue Devils Off To A Hot Start
WATER VALLEY – – The Water Valley Junior High Blue Devils football teams are off to a hot start in 2023. The eighth grade team has started (2-0) with back-to-back shutout victories over Charleston, 14 – 0, and Pope, 14 -0. In the Charleston game on Tuesday, August 29, the game was knotted up at…
Read MoreTremendous Heart, Effort Not Enough To Overcome Bearcats
BALDYWN – On Friday, September 9 the Water Valley Blue Devils traveled to Lee County to take on the homestanding Baldwyn Bearcats. The Bearcats are picked by many media pundits to make it to the MHSAA State Championships in Class 1A this season. The Blue Devils overcame an early 14 to zero deficit to take…
Read MoreSeptember, School Days And Coming Back Home
It is September, and schools across the country are back in session now. Fifty-five Septembers ago, I left my rural farmland to attend college at the University of Mississippi. In terms of the seasons of the year, that was early autumn. In terms of the seasons of my life, it was early summer. You see,…
Read MoreSo Much For A Strong First Impression
Some weeks you struggle for column material and some weeks you create it. Last week I created it. The story about the plea deal for the brothers charged in the 2020 highway murder included a lot of information provided by assistant district attorney Marvell Gordon. The only problem, I had a brain glitch and reported…
Read MoreHill Country Living
I’m calling it. It’s Fall. I know that Fall doesn’t officially start for a couple more weeks but I’m not waiting any longer. This horrendous extended summer has stretched my seasonal limits and I’m at the end of my dog days rope. I take the cooler mornings we’ve been having here in the past few…
Read MoreSailing The Wine-Dark, High Seas
The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy’s class of 1965 holds reunions every five years, and lately, we’ve started having mini-reunions in between. This year, about twenty gathered in Memphis for a cruise up the Mississippi. Margaret and I couldn’t be away from home long enough for the cruise, but since the rendezvous point was the Peabody…
Read MoreCox Had Speaking Role In 1964 Cult-Classic Film
Former Water Valley resident D. Mitchell Cox, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Cox, had a speaking role in the 1964 cult-classic film, “Strait Jacket” with Joan Crawford. Cox, who had never acted in his life, played a psychiatrist who visited Crawford’s character, Lucy Harbin, after her return from the “institution” in…
Read MoreJones’ Retirement Marks End Of An Era
WATER VALLEY – This week, an era at Blackmur Memorial Library came to an end with the retirement of long-time employee Donna Jones. Jones has been a fixture at the library for many years. She started as a volunteer shortly after moving to Water Valley and proved to be a motivated and tireless supporter for…
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