Supervisors Pencil In Budget For New Fiscal Year
WATER VALLEY – In a marathon meeting that stretched from 9 a.m. to nearly 4 p.m. last Monday, Aug. 4, at the Water Valley courthouse, county supervisors hammered out spending for the 2025–2026 budget, with only a brief sandwich break during the day. The budget discussion began around 10:30 a.m., following several other agenda items,…
Read MoreQualifying Underway For School Slots In Water Valley, Coffeeville
WATER VALLEY – The qualifying period is underway for school board elections in the Water Valley School District and the Coffeeville School District, with one seat in each district on the November ballot. Each school district is divided into five geographic subdistricts, and one trustee is elected from each subdistrict to serve on the board.…
Read MoreObituaries 08/14/2025
Peggy Carruth Brewer TILLATOBA –Peggy Carruth Brewer, age 58, passed away Monday, August 11, 2025, at her mother-in-law’s home near Batesville. A graveside service will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, August 13, 2025, at Curtis Union Cemetery with Rev. Rickey Harris officiating. The family will receive friends prior to the graveside service from…
Read MoreA Few Carnival Leftovers Worth Sharing
I always take more pictures and notes during the Watermelon Carnival than I can squeeze into the next edition of the Herald. So, I figured it might be fun to share a few more of these stories while the carnival is still fresh on our minds. I enjoyed catching up with Tommy Latham, who may…
Read MoreWords To Her Firstborn: Maria’s 1886 Letter
It’s a Wagner Week and as a mom who’s sending her first born child to college next week, I thought I’d go back to 1886 and publish a letter that Wagner matriarch, Maria, is writing to her first-born child, John Henry, who is off at his first semester of Bingham Military Academy. I was entertained…
Read MoreHow I Adopted My Human (And Snack Dad, Too)
People often ask, “Sweetie, where did you find such a well-trained human?” And first of all, thank you for noticing. It wasn’t easy. But after a lot of hard work on my part, she’s attentive, minds well, and speaks fluent Dog Mom. But let’s not pretend I found her on purpose. I was just a…
Read MoreAtomic Energy Was 1945 Herald Topic
The development of three big news stories during the past week prompted Herald Editor Ed Shearer II to reflect on the events in the August 9, 1945, edition of the Herald. The first big news was the report of the Potsdam conference, which let the world know the pattern for the future of Europe and…
Read MoreMt. Liberty News
I hope everyone has had a great week. Things have been going well at Mt. Liberty. We were blessed to see Bro. Dave baptized on Sunday, and we’re excited to see what God has in store for him. I know many of you probably enjoyed the Watermelon Carnival over the weekend. I didn’t make it…
Read MoreOakland News
North Central Planning and Development runs the lunch program for senior citizens each weekday at the Timothy Booker Senior Citizens Center in Oakland. Program Director Margaret Scott White said they have openings for new participants. If you are 60 and over and live in the Oakland, Tillatoba, Scobey, or Enid area in Yalobusha County, you…
Read MoreTillatoba News
We got a good rain Sunday afternoon. David and I had been sitting on the porch watching the last of the company pulling out of the drive, and I told him that I saw a few clouds up in the sky and hoped they were rain clouds so I wouldn’t have to water my flowers.…
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