WATER VALLEY – The Town & Country Garden Club opened its fall season with a September meeting at the Yalobusha Country Club in Water Valley. Hostesses for the 5 p.m. meeting were Patsy Humphreys and Jessie Gurner. The featured speaker was Sherra Owen, a retired Home Economics and Character Education teacher with 33 years of…

20 Years—October 26, 2006 – Water Valley native Ken Hart released his second recording, “Driftin’,” recently. His first album, “Ain’t No Trains,” was released in 2004. Ken is the oldest son of Betty and Larry Hart. Two photos, one on the front page, featured Halloween decorations at the home of Christine Harrison on Blount St.…

I got to counting the years Monday night, and the tally is now over a quarter-century. Yes, I am getting older, and my years working in a newspaper office actually stretch back to my high school days at The Panolian. But it’s been 28 years on my own. Twenty-eight years covering city, county, school and…

Every fall, my human begins decorating the house with pumpkins. Most of them are ordinary enough. Round, orange, reasonably smooth. I may not personally see the need for vegetables as seasonal accessories, but I can at least understand the general idea. This year, however, she brought home a pumpkin that appears to have a serious…

It’s a Wagner Week, and I picked this letter out of the box simply because it had the telltale stained ring of a coffee mug that had been set upon it, likely 123 years ago. The writer is Charles Gustave Hylander, who was raised on Griffin Street in Water Valley, along with his numerous siblings.…

MYRTLE – Water Valley had plenty of opportunities to end its losing streak Friday night, but costly turnovers and missed scoring chances allowed Myrtle to escape with a 24-18 victory over the Blue Devils. Water Valley led twice in the first quarter and threatened repeatedly throughout the contest, but three trips deep into Myrtle territory…

I am writing this from Hong Kong on the last day of my travels. Imagine Mississippi’s most humid day, probably in August, and then combine that humidity with hundreds of high-rise buildings holding that humidity in, and you have some idea of the weather we have encountered here. The people who live here say this…

Bro. Grant began with references to Revelation 2:2, 9, 13 and 19, as well as Revelation 3:8 and 15. In these verses, Jesus is speaking to six churches: Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Philadelphia and Laodicea. In each of these verses, Jesus tells the churches, “I know thy works.” God sees what we do. We cannot…