WATER VALLEY – The Old Yalobusha County Jail, a 120-year-old landmark standing beside the courthouse in Water Valley, has been named to Mississippi’s 10 Most Endangered Historic Places list for 2025. The recognition was announced Thursday night in Jackson during a Mississippi Heritage Trust ceremony unveiling the 15th edition of the statewide list, which highlights…

WATER VALLEY — The first Base Camp Coding Academy Alumni Impact Panel drew a full house last Thursday morning as more than 100 students from a half-dozen different high schools and professionals gathered for an honest look at how a small-town tech program is changing lives and how much perseverance it takes to make it.…

WATER VALLEY — A street-by-street digital mapping project completed this month could lead to what Mayor Tommy Reynolds calls a “transformative paving program” for Water Valley, a plan that uses scientific data, not guesswork, to guide investment in future infrastructure improvements. The city is the first in north Mississippi to complete a comprehensive digital street-mapping…

WATER VALLEY – It was truly a tale of two halves Friday night as the Water Valley Blue Devils shook off a sluggish start and came alive after halftime, rallying for a 42–28 win over Strayhorn (3-8) to remain unbeaten in region play. The victory improved Water Valley to 7–2 overall (3–0 in region) and…

Just when I thought it was time to tone down the discussion about a unit versus beat system of government in the county, along come more ideas — and this time from inside the city limits. Take what Mayor Tommy Reynolds and the Water Valley Board of Aldermen are doing with their new street-mapping project.…

10 Years—October 29, 2015 – Readers weighed in on the November unit versus beat referendum by writing letters to the editor. Larry Bell said that the county could not afford an additional two jobs, a county administrator and road foreman, as required under the unit system. Bell said if the vote for unit system passes,…

It’s that time of year again when the air starts to change. The mornings are cooler, the afternoons golden, and you can feel that quiet excitement building, the kind that means the holidays aren’t far off. Even with rain in the forecast for part of the week, everyone seems ready for what’s ahead. Around here,…

It’s a Wagner Week and I found a letter from a famous person! Well, she would be fairly famous in some circles, I imagine. When I pull a letter out of the very clearly never-ending box of Wagner Letters and don’t immediately recognize the name at the bottom of the letter, I Google it. Almost…