Fern Cleanup To Cost Millions
YALOBUSHA COUNTY — Cleanup from Winter Storm Fern is expected to cost millions of dollars in Yalobusha County, according to preliminary estimates discussed during a lengthy Board of Supervisors meeting held Feb. 5. Supervisors approved an emergency contract with TFR Enterprises, Inc. to handle countywide debris removal during a special-called meeting that day. The vote…
Read MoreLocal Request Opens Fishing Season For Entire State In 1946
20 Years—February 9, 2006 – Alexander Scott pled guilty to the August 16, 2003 murder and robbery of Bill Quinn. With a plea bargain, he would serve 25 years. Don Giles, Yalobusha Habitat for Humanity board member, unloaded floor covering donated by Home Depot for a project in progress at Water Valley. Yalobusha County 4-Hers…
Read MoreA Wagner Week Letter From Oxford In 1904
It’s a Wagner Week! Let’s take an ice storm break and see what the people with no worries were up to in the warmer weather of 1904. Oxford socialite Elma Coleman Meek is writing to our own George Wagner who is off at school in New York. She’s in love with Relbue Price of Oxford…
Read MoreSupport Still Needed After Fern
In the immediate aftermath of Winter Storm Fern, Yalobusha County saw something that never gets old: neighbors helping neighbors. Chainsaws came out. Driveways were cleared. Roads were opened back up. Folks checked on elderly neighbors, shared generators and made sure no one was left in the dark, literally or figuratively. Volunteers gave countless hours, and…
Read MoreLocal Ties In Historic Cheer Title
TILLATOBA — A Germantown High School cheerleader with family ties to Tillatoba helped make school history with the program’s first national championship. Caroline Zorn, a junior at Germantown High School, was a member of Germantown’s Gameday Cheer Team, which won a national championship on Feb. 1, 2026, at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Center…
Read MoreMcCool Wins Tickets To Monster Truck Show
Christian love and sympathy is extended to the Dynamite Kirk family of Grenada. Mr. Kirk passed away Feb. 7, 2026, at his home. Christian love and sympathy is also extended to Michelle Clolinger in the loss of her son, Nicholas Hardy, known to many as “Little Nickey,” who passed away Feb. 4, 2026. Deborah McCool…
Read MoreObituaries 02/12/2026
Landon Arbuckle WATER VALLEY – Landon Arbuckle, 14, passed away Monday, Feb. 2, 2026, leaving behind a world made quieter by his absence. Landon was a student at Water Valley Junior High School and the kind of kid you noticed immediately. He lived with energy, confidence and humor, often using quick wit and sarcasm to…
Read MoreOne Meal, Many Thanks For Linemen
I hope everyone has power back on. I know there are still some with specific issues that are waiting, but hopefully most are now enjoying all those creature comforts we sometimes take for granted until they are gone. My mom, Margaret Ross, and sister Carol had gotten so used to not having power that they…
Read MoreDebris Pickup To Begin Countywide
YALOBUSHA COUNTY — Organized debris removal following Winter Storm Fern is set to begin countywide, as equipment arrives and crews prepare to start systematic pickup of storm-generated debris along county and state road rights of way. Steven Vinyard with TFR Enterprises, the county’s debris removal contractor, debris collection officially begin Feb. 9 and is expected…
Read MoreRelief Effort Brings Hope, Supplies To Yalobusha County After Fern
YALOBUSHA COUNTY — When Winter Storm Fern left much of Yalobusha County without heat, water, or reliable access to basic supplies, help arrived quickly — and quietly — through a call answered hundreds of miles away. Josh Gill, a commander with the United Cajun Navy, was contacted by Libby Kuchta, a volunteer liaison working with…
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