WATER VALLEY — A Scobey resident who said he may be paying one of the highest property tax bills in Yalobusha County came before the Board of Supervisors on Dec. 15 seeking clarity, saying the numbers did not line up with what other homeowners across the county are paying. “He has questions about his tax…

The Hubert Creekmore Reading Series continues at Bozarts Gallery on Tuesday, January 6, with Water Valley’s own Sally Lott McLellan. A Mississippi native, Sally serves as a volunteer with the Prison Writes Initiative. Since 2021 she has been an instructor in Creative Arts at Parchman and Marshall County Correctional Facility where she guides students in…

A good newspaper columnist ought to start the year with something fun, and I think I’ve found just the ticket. Actually, Jim Shearer deserves the credit. Jim recently ran across an old Herald article documenting the burial of a time capsule scheduled to be opened on July 4, 2026. Just in case you’re wondering, this…

I hope everyone had a terrific Christmas. At least nobody around here was cold. The temperatures were so mild that we could’ve all gone swimming at Enid. I write this column on Tuesday morning, but by the time most of y’all read this, we will be just hours from learning our fate in the Sugar…

A New Year always makes you think ahead a little. Not in a resolutions and big promises kind of way, but in a quieter way. At the Chamber, when we talk about hopes for 2026, we’re really talking about people we know. Folks we see at the post office, the grocery store, ball games, and…

  10 Years—December 31, 2015 – Another year has passed and much of the local news was captured in the pages of the Herald, a 127 year tradition. In 2015, the newspaper recorded a pair of late winter snows in late February and early March before declaring enough snow, time for spring. Among highlights captured…

I’ve decided to start the new year with a positive attitude and a list of resolutions, because apparently that’s what humans do when the calendar flips over and they feel guilty about everything they ate in December. I figured if my human can write lists about “self-improvement,” I can too. Besides, how hard could it…

Sunday afternoon, your writer, along with my son Timothy Sullivan and my husband David, motored to Cleveland for a holiday meal with our son Derek and Jane Claire Deck. We enjoyed oyster Rockefeller, crab spears grilled by son Logan, macaroni and cheese, and a delicious pasta Derek prepared with steak and sausage and all kinds…

The Hubert Creekmore Literary Society (HCLS) will celebrate the 119th birthday of Water Valley poet, writer and editor Hubert Creekmore on Friday, Jan. 16, at 6:30 p.m. at Bozarts Gallery. Mississippi writer Hubert Creekmore was born in 1907 in Water Valley. Some believe he was born at the brick hospital next door to the home…