WATER VALLEY – The Water Valley Area Chamber of Commerce presented the Business Spotlight Award to Hometown Pizza on Friday, June 20. First introduced by the Chamber in 2016, this award recognizes business and individuals that demonstrate exceptional commitment to the community. Hometown Pizza opened in 2014, and has served as a community hub with…

By ADAM PRESTRIDGE The Grenada Star GRENADA – Hats off once again to Grenada Railroad as it continues to invest its resources in the community, moving full steam ahead to aid in its growth. In late April, the short-line railroad, operated by Pinsly Railroad Company, celebrated another milestone as railroad executives, along with local, county…

If you read the story on page 3 about the Grenada Railway depot, you learned about another milestone that follows the ninth hour miracle that saved the old Illinois Central railroad that runs from Canton to Memphis. Former Water Valley mayor Larry Hart has said on more than one occasion that the near demise of…

It’s a Wagner Week! Oxford socialite Elma Meek has found her match when it comes to town gossip: Ole Miss frat boy, Morgan Garrott. I edited out half of this letter for the sake of length but you can google almost any of the names in this letter be sent down a rabbit hole of…

If you’ve ever pulled an old Watermelon Carnival t-shirt from a drawer, you already know – it’s not just a shirt. It’s a memory. Soft, faded, maybe with a stubborn corn dog mustard stain or two—it’s living proof you were there at the Street Dance, when the fireworks lit up the sky, the Carnival program…

    Speaking at a Rotary Club meeting on June 24, 1975, Sheriff L.A. Jones reported that the crime rate in southern states was on the rise. Jones reported that in 1974 the crime rate rose 17 percent in the U.S., but the rise was 21 percent in the South. Jones said that Americans were…

I hope all of you are surviving this hot weather and drinking plenty of water, we all knew summer would finally arrive. I would like to thank Scotty and Stephanie Chambers and Gary and Adam Chambers for rescuing David from a ditch he had fallen into while bush hogging in the pasture. They brought him…