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After Years On ‘The Hill,’ Smith See Patients At Arrington Clinic

COFFEEVILLE – There is never a routine day at a rural health clinic, one reason why Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) Katherine Smith enjoys greeting her patients at Arrington Medical Clinic in Coffeeville each day. A Clarksdale native, Smith’s first job after earning a Master’s of Science in Nursing was at Dr. Paul Odom’s clinic in…

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Electricity Cost Will Increase 4.5 Percent

WATER VALLEY – Starting next month the city’s electric department customers will pay more for electricity following a 4.5 percent rate hike from Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The rate increase was announced by TVA late last month as the entity plans to invest $15 billion over the next three years to build additional generation and…

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Dewberry Sentenced To Life Plus 40 Years

WATER VALLEY – A Water Valley man was sentenced to life in prison plus 40 years after a jury convicted him of sexual battery of a child under 14, fondling a child and child pornography possession. Circuit Judge Smith Murphey told Timothy Aaron Dewberry, 42, that his days of freedom were over as he handed…

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Junior Blue Devils Off To A Hot Start

WATER VALLEY – – The Water Valley Junior High Blue Devils football teams are off to a hot start in 2023. The eighth grade team has started (2-0) with back-to-back shutout victories over Charleston, 14 – 0, and Pope, 14 -0. In the Charleston game on Tuesday, August 29, the game was knotted up at…

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Tremendous Heart, Effort Not Enough To Overcome Bearcats

BALDYWN – On Friday, September 9 the Water Valley Blue Devils traveled to Lee County to take on the homestanding Baldwyn Bearcats. The Bearcats are picked by many media pundits to make it to the MHSAA State Championships in Class 1A this season. The Blue Devils overcame an early 14 to zero deficit to take…

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September, School Days And Coming Back Home

It is September, and schools across the country are back in session now. Fifty-five Septembers ago, I left my rural farmland to attend college at the University of Mississippi. In terms of the seasons of the year, that was early autumn. In terms of the seasons of my life, it was early summer. You see,…

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So Much For A Strong First Impression

Some weeks you struggle for column material and some weeks you create it. Last week I created it. The story about the plea deal for the brothers charged in the 2020 highway murder included a lot of information provided by assistant district attorney Marvell Gordon. The only problem, I had a brain glitch and reported…

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Hill Country Living

I’m calling it. It’s Fall. I know that Fall doesn’t officially start for a couple more weeks but I’m not waiting any longer. This horrendous extended summer has stretched my seasonal limits and I’m at the end of my dog days rope. I take the cooler mornings we’ve been having here in the past few…

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Sailing The Wine-Dark, High Seas

The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy’s class of 1965 holds reunions every five years, and lately, we’ve started having mini-reunions in between. This year, about twenty gathered in Memphis for a cruise up the Mississippi. Margaret and I couldn’t be away from home long enough for the cruise, but since the rendezvous point was the Peabody…

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Cox Had Speaking Role In 1964 Cult-Classic Film

Former Water Valley resident D. Mitchell Cox, son of the late Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Cox, had a speaking role in the 1964 cult-classic film, “Strait Jacket” with Joan Crawford. Cox, who had never acted in his life, played a psychiatrist who visited Crawford’s character, Lucy Harbin, after her return from the “institution” in…

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