Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor: After buying land in Water Valley almost twenty years ago for an eventual retirement, my husband and I were prepared to move to a small quiet Mississippi town. Living within the city limits, but across the highway, we are not disappointed.   We are also not disappointed coming into town. My husband’s early…

Letter to the Editor:    I would like to thank all the people who called and/or contacted me asking me to run for “Alderman-at-Large.” I can assure all that I thought about and prayed a lot over the situation and finally determined that I did not think I was qualified to assume the job of…

Dear Editor:    I HAVE NO COMPLAINTS! This would be a pretty good statement if it accounted for 1 day.  But, if I can say I HAVE NO COMPLAINTS concerning a 15 day stay at Yalobusha General Hospital, that borders on pretty amazing, in my book!    I’ve been proud of and happy about our…

Dear Editor: I am writing to thank Yalobusha County residents for spreading joy to children around the world this Christmas. Through the generosity of the Yalobusha County community, the Northwest Mississippi Area Team was able to collect 22,900 shoebox gifts for Operation Christmas Child, the world’s larger Christmas project of its kind. Yalobusha County volunteers…

Dear Editor, It is with a heavy heart that I am writing this letter. My mother died on Jan. 30, 2016, and was laid to rest in Oak Hill Cemetery. In find comfort in visiting and often take flowers as a token of my love. On Dec. 7  I journeyed there to find that grave…

Dear Editor, I read the letter by Anne Burke, of Biloxi/Water Valley, with great interest and much frustration. Your letter, Ms. Burke, is a slap in the face to victims of sexual assault and sexual harassment, which have both been common problems since workplaces were invented. If you, the writer of this incredibly tone deaf and hateful…

To the editor: Before we drag all the men out to the city gates and stone them  for their sins, let’s step outside the politically correct box and make a stab at being fair. Some women learn early on that you catch more flies with honey than vinegar and apply that old axiom to the…

Dear Editor, Recently, a reader who “doesn’t know me” questioned why I was speaking out on civic issues.  While I did not grow up in Water Valley, my family has been in this area since the mid-1800’s.  My maternal grandparents taught school for years in Taylor and one of my great aunts taught here in…

Letter to Editor: Self Conflicts    Sometimes people hear only what they want to hear, some people see what they want to see, and they  believe in what they want to believe. Too many people trust in self and not God.    Let us always consider that our children are our future; without them there…

To the Editor:    Our mayoral race is bringing out simmering issues, as it should I guess.    We citizens who on one hand may prefer Water Valley to be an increasingly expensive mini-Oxford, while  others would build walls all around us and expel those they would deem unworthy. Not surprising this is a good…