Law Officers Train For Active Shooter
WATER VALLEY – The Water Valley Police Department coordinated an active shooter training last week simulating different threats for a school, hospital or factory setting. The training was held for much of the afternoon on June 28 inside the Water Valley High School and also included participation from the Yalobusha County Sheriff’s Department, Yalobusha County…
Read MoreWork Underway To Restructure County’s Fire Departments
WATER VALLEY – The Yalobusha County Emergency Agency (EMA) is working to restructure the county’s volunteer fire departments to reduce premiums for homeowners insurance in areas of the county outside of the municipal limits of Coffeeville, Oakland and Water Valley. EMA Director Stewart Spence reported to supervisors that work is underway to restructure the county’s…
Read MoreGray Retires From Farm Bureau
WATER VALLEY – Family members, friends and clients celebrated Farm Bureau agent Donald Gray’s retirement after a 40-year career during a reception Thursday afternoon. “Don has been solid as anybody has ever been in this business,” Agency Manager Bradley Brown shared as he presented Gray a certification of appreciation. “We are going to miss him…
Read MoreOlaf Finds New Role As Scarecrow
Olaf has done a pretty good job watching over the garden this year. Don’t worry if you don’t know Olaf, I didn’t either. He is a fictional character from Disney’s Frozen movies, and the stuffed animal version came from my granddaughter’s closet. I am not sure what his purpose is in the movies, but I…
Read MoreHill Country Living
It’s a Wagner Week because my column deadline is the day before July Fourth. There are no fireworks, smoked ribs and watermelon margaritas to report yet. They are all currently in preparation. Instead we’ll see what a few rich people were doing back in July of 1888. First, we have Frank from a cigar shop…
Read MoreLife Has A Unique Way Of Coming Full Circle
I got the most amazing and shocking phone call tonight. Thank you, Amanda Haas for being a bridge to this lady. All my life I have wanted and looked for someone who was my mother’s friend during her school years, to know what she was like and if I looked like her as a teen.…
Read MoreFirst African-American Political Cartoonist Was Born In Yalobusha
The first African-American political cartoonist, Henry Jackson Lewis, was born a slave around 1837 or 1838 in Yalobusha County somewhere near Water Valley. The oldest known cartoons by Lewis were published in 1872 about the time he settled in Pine Bluff, Ark., according to Archaeologist Marvin D. Jeter and Gallery Director Mark Cervenka, who wrote…
Read MoreTillatoba News
By the time you read this article, the Fourth of July will be over and in the books. I pray you all had a wonderful and safe holiday. I’m trying my best to stay in and stay cool, and I hope the ones that can will do the same. Also the mosquitoes are terrible at…
Read MoreOakland Chamber Receives Grant for Pickleball Court and Park
OAKLAND – The Oakland Area Chamber of Commerce has received a $25,000 grant from AARP to create a pickleball court and pocket park adjacent to the Timothy Booker Senior Citizens’ Center in Oakland. AARP received more than 3,600 grant applications and awarded 310 across the nation. Oakland is one of four selected in Mississippi. “We…
Read MoreObituaries 07/06/2023
Berniece Pettit SCOBEY – Thelma Berniece Lane Pettit, 86, of Scobey passed away Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at St. Dominic/Jackson Memorial Hospital in Jackson. She was born February 17, 1937 in Tallahatchie County to Dee Burnice and Wilma Bloodworth Lane. Berniece touched the lives of many children through the years working as an Assistant Teacher…
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