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I woke up Thursday morning to a nice, slow rain and cooler temperatures. After finishing all my laundry, I couldn’t decide whether to go back to bed or pick up my crocheting. The bed won. I hope everyone enjoys a safe and relaxing Labor Day weekend. Our friend Larry Franklin of Hardy visited with us…
Read MoreInside The Blue And White
Hey y’all, and welcome back to my column, Inside the Blue and White! It was a great week on the campus of Water Valley High School. I’m so glad you’re back reading and enjoying it! Let me tell you all the exciting news and things that have happened! Golf’s tournament got cancelled this Thursday because…
Read MoreBlue Devils Open Season With 19–7 Win Over Independence
INDEPENDENCE – Water Valley opened the 2025 season in convincing fashion Friday night, defeating Independence 19–7 on the road. The victory snapped a three-year losing streak to the Wildcats and marked head coach Clint Faust’s first win over the Wildcats since taking over the program in 2023. Independence struck first on the third play from…
Read MoreRolling Dice, Building Friendships: Four Decades Of Monthly Bunco
WATER VALLEY – Bunco is a dice game with no real strategy and a whole lot of noise. The rules are easy: roll some dice, count your points, yell ‘Bunco!’ when you get lucky. But for more than forty years for Terry McMinn, Brenda Holloway, and Patsy Humphreys, it’s been less about the dice and…
Read MoreElectric Commission Explores Partnership With MSU for Grid Work
WATER VALLEY – The Water Valley Electric Commission is looking to Mississippi State University for help tackling decades of underinvestment in the city-owned electric system. At a Thursday, August 21 meeting at Everest, commissioners hosted three MSU officials — Dr. Dallas Breen, executive director of the Stennis Institute of Government; Dr. David Wallis with the…
Read MoreTelford Pleads Guilty In 2023 Fatal Shooting
WATER VALLEY – Nearly two years after a fatal shooting in Water Valley, Ja’Quin Telford has pled guilty to heat of passion manslaughter in Yalobusha County Circuit Court. Telford entered the plea on August 26 in Water Valley, and sentencing is scheduled for September 18. The case stemmed from a Sept. 14, 2023, shooting that…
Read MoreSupervisors Address Roof Leaks, Grants And Burial Policy
WATER VALLEY – Yalobusha County supervisors worked through a wide-ranging agenda Monday, August 18, in Water Valley, tackling topics from courthouse roof repairs and economic development to road adoptions before closing the session with two matters in executive session. Supervisors approved bids from Marchbanks Specialty Co., the low bidder on two projects, to repair leaking…
Read MoreVictory Turns Small-Town Roots Into Big-Stage Vision
WATER VALLEY – If you were at The Town and Country Garden Club’s Music Fest at The Civic and found yourself gawking at the lights, amazed by the sound, and thinking, Okay… this is next level, you’ve already had a little taste of Victory Event Group. At the helm is Max Victory—yes, that’s his real…
Read MoreCity Budget Faces New Challenges
City officials are fine-tuning the budget for the new fiscal year beginning in October, and it will present some unusual challenges. One of the big questions on the table is the PILOT payment—short for Payment in Lieu of Taxes. This is the money the city receives from the electric department each year, transferred into the…
Read MoreFrom Ole Miss To The Wagner Girls: Then And Now
I write this on Monday, the 25th, which is the first day of 2025 fall classes at the University of Mississippi. Let us all send up our collective thoughts and prayers to Water Valley’s young people — this time with an emphasis on those who are newly arrived at Ole Miss and Northwest. And State,…
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