Our Oakland Area will celebrate with an old-fashioned birthday party to celebrate America’s 250th birthday. It will be held July 3 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Swearengen Walking Track and Park.  Bring a chair! We’ll have small prizes for the best decorated chair, costume or bike We will have music provided by our…

BATESVILLE – Jametric Letraile Judson, 48, of Water Valley, died Wednesday, June 24, from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash on Interstate 55 near Batesville. Judson was a longtime employee of the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office, where he served as detention supervisor and supervised C Shift at the Lafayette County Detention Center. Sheriff Joey East…

WATER VALLEY – Discussions about stray dogs, brush and debris pickup, overgrown property, broken equipment and Watermelon Carnival preparations dominated a June 16 meeting of the Water Valley Board of Aldermen, highlighting demands on already stretched city departments. During the meeting, the board unanimously approved the hiring of an applicant for the newly created Public…

WATER VALLEY – Organizers of Water Valley’s Bicentennial time capsule project believe they have located the capsule buried near City Hall nearly 50 years ago. J.R. Burleson and Cruz Burleson of Odd Fellows Lodge No. 82 recently used metal detectors, probes and shovels to search for the capsule. A tip from City Clerk Vivian Snider…

WATER VALLEY – A Mississippi family business that traces its roots to a small hardware store in Vardaman more than 60 years ago opened its newest location in Water Valley, bringing a new home improvement and building supply retailer to the city and marking a significant private investment along the Highway 7 bypass. Nabors Home…

WATER VALLEY – When Martin Street property owner Marco Gooch saw one of his vacant properties pictured recently in a Herald story about the city’s proposed vacant property ordinance, it struck a nerve. Gooch said his frustrations are not primarily about the ordinance itself. Instead, he says they stem from years of what he describes…

I wrote about my 51st birthday last week and how time seems to move faster the older we get. Case in point, the Looking Back photo in last week’s edition showed the renovation of the Herald building. I confidently reported that 20 years had passed since the project was completed. It didn’t take Mickey Howley…

20 Years—June 29, 2006– Multiple cases of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever have been diagnosed and treated in Water Valley. Paul Rodrique, manager of the Jamie L. Whitten Plant Material Center, located near Coffeeville, offered tours last Thursday. The tours included seven stops around the facility and the highlight was the wildflower exhibits, especially the fields…

I’m happy to get to report that I enjoyed a lovely supper at Courthouse Cafe a week or so ago. The heat hanging over Water Valley that evening was beyond measurement, but inside Courthouse Cafe the temps were cool and comfortable. I speak for the customers, of course, not the cooks. They may have a…