Fire Department Launches Program To Install Free Smoke Detectors
WATER VALLEY – The Water Valley Fire Department launched a smoke detector program Monday with a goal to equip all residences inside the city limits with smoke detectors. Fire Chief Mark McGavock reported the smoke alarms are available on a first-come, first served basis and there are no income stipulations or other criteria for eligibility.…
Read MoreBe Sure To Pick Up A Carnival Program
WATER VALLEY – The 53rd Watermelon Carnival program is on sale now. This year’s edition “Water Valley Then and Now,” and features an interview with Grant Thompson on his work to preserve family histories and the history of Water Valley through photographs and audio tapes. Information on the various civic organizations in the city, along…
Read MoreCarnival Prep Is A Collective Effort
It’s all hands on deck in the city as the final push to make the city spic and span for the big carnival weekend is underway. That was Mayor Donald Gray’s words – spic and span – and we all know how good the city looks each summer for the biggest event in the county.…
Read MoreAdvice For Healthy Chickens In 1888: Hot Meals And Weekly Foot Rubs
It’s a Wagner Week and here is one of my favorite letters from the collection. Whenever I get a hankering to get some backyard chickens I just read this letter and it sets me straight pretty fast. By the end of the letter I always conclude that I’m just not at a point in my…
Read MoreLook Back In Yalobusha History
• 15 years ago, July 24, 2008 – Sales tax collections in Water Valley and Oakland were “flat” over the past year, only increasing by less than one percent. In Oakland, collections actually decreased 2.3 percent. Watermelon grower Jerry Vaughn and son, Trea, were pictured on the front page with one of their big Carolina…
Read MoreObituaries 07/20/2023
Gerald Rankin McCay TUPELO – Gerald Rankin McCay met his Heavenly Father on July 8, 2023 in at the Greenhouses at Traceway in Tupelo. Jerry was born on February 21, 1950 in Tupelo to the Reverend Dorsey Hugh McCay, Sr. and Mary Helen Rankin McCay. He was a proud brother that fell in line as…
Read MoreTillatoba News
Phillip Tillman has scheduled a book signing for his latest publication, “I Wanna Go Home.” The signing is scheduled at the Tillatoba Baptist Church Fellowship Hall on Saturday, July 29, from 2 to 4 p.m. The book is a biographical account of the lives of Carolyn and Phillip Tillman and heavily weighted with his 22…
Read MoreRotary Announces Carnival Raffle Prizes
The Rotary Club of Water Valley will hold their annual Watermelon Carnival Raffle to raise funds for community projects in the upcoming year. The club had such a great response to last year’s first place prize, the Blackstone Grill, that club members decided to offer it again and add some exciting new ones. The Rotary Club…
Read MoreOxford Man Killed In Hwy. 7 Crash
COFFEEVILLE – A 38 year-old Oxford man was killed in a three-vehicle crash on Hwy 7 on July 6. Yalobusha County Coroner Ronnie Stark reported Derrick Williams died from blunt force trauma to the head. The wreck occurred south of Coffeeville at 3:51 p.m. after Williams’ truck collided head-on with a heavy-duty farm truck. A…
Read MoreCounty Commits To Assist With Road
WATER VALLEY – Yalobusha County supervisors passed a resolution to provide $75,000 worth of county labor and equipment use toward a proposed million-dollar road project in the W.C. Gardiner Industrial Park in Water Valley. Though not lengthy, the road would go a long way toward drawing new businesses and jobs to the county. The third-of-a-mile…
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