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WATER VALLEY – After more than three decades practicing medicine, most of them spent in emergency rooms and another decade running a nephrology clinic, Dr. Jonathan Massey is beginning what he calls the final chapter of his career. At age 59, the veteran physician has joined Yalobusha Health Service’s Odom Rural Health Clinic in Water…

WATER VALLEY – The Water Valley Electric Commission is seeking applications for a new department manager following the resignation of longtime manager Crystal Floyd last week. Commissioners moved to declare the position vacant and begin advertising for a replacement, setting a Sept. 18 deadline for applications. The decision to begin advertising came during the commission’s…

CHARLESTON – The multi-agency search for fugitive Ewel Scott came to an end last Thursday morning, August 14, when he was captured north of Charleston in Tallahatchie County after weeks of evading law enforcement. Authorities reported that Scott, 44, was arrested around 10:30 a.m. near the intersection of Mudline and Howard roads, an area that…

WATER VALLEY – The new Water Valley Board of Aldermen tackled a lengthy agenda in their monthly on August 5, a two-and-a-half-hour session that touched on everything from city-wide job descriptions and department leadership to electric system upgrades and speed bumps. Several of the agenda items pointed to matters that could shape the board’s work…

I know there’s a lot of reporting from meetings held earlier this month in this week’s edition, and I’m running a little behind. August has been the busiest meeting month I can remember in a long time, and I’m still trying to catch up. There’s even a short story about the inaugural Parks Commission meeting…

I usually write my columns on Monday mornings. But here I am writing on a Sunday morning because this time tomorrow I will be dropping my one and only oldest child off at college. Admittedly, “off at college” is only twenty minutes away in the very next town where my child already spends 90 percent…

August is more than half-way over, so we need to talk about… Christmas. Yes, we know. It’s 94 degrees, and your flip-flops are practically melted to the sidewalk. But the Chamber has been quietly planning the most wonderful time of the year. Think of it like this: we’re just giving you a head start so…

It was a political year 90 years ago in the county and sheriff candidate C.W. Busby addressed voters about negative campaigning in the August 16, 1935 edition of the North Mississippi Herald. Busby was the top vote-getter on a five-man ticket for sheriff in the primary after the vote tally from each of the county’s…

Mahaley Hames and her sister Lou Whatley have been wandering around Mississippi and Tennessee lately. Mahaley said they decided to visit a friend near Maryville, Tenn. Here is her report: “My sis is 83-years-young and I will be 87 in December. We went through Oxford, Holly Springs, and Bolivar, Tenn. to catch Highway 40 at…

Christian love and sympathy is extended to the family of Gerald Wiggins of Oakland. Gerald passed away on August 16 after a long battle with kidney cancer. He leaves one daughter, Larissa, and three grandchildren. Faye and Kristie Hartley enjoyed a short vacation to Pensacola, Fla., this past weekend. James Lee Sturdivant had a blast…