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By Sim Ramírez Special To The Herald WATER VALLEY – The cries for state champions from the populace is evoked often.  The Water Valley High School chess team would like to direct the readers’ gaze toward the edifice on 550 Market Street. It is there that, not one, not two, but three state champions reside.…

WATER VALLEY – A new shopping experience is coming to Water Valley with Friday’s grand opening of South Main, a boutique offering gifts, gourmet food products, vintage items, antiques and a “man cave” for those hard to find men’s gifts. South Main will also feature work from several Mississippi artists as Kathy Williams’ passion to…

The Rotary Club of Water Valley will hold its annual “chili cook off” on Saturday November 12, 2016, at the Pocket Park (at the corner of Main and Wagner Streets) from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m.  This fund-raising activity is held in conjunction with the Water Valley Chamber of Commerce downtown businesses’ open house. Last…

WATER VALLEY – Voters will head to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballot in the highly publicized presidential bid between Republican nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and, if absentee voting is any indication, the turnout in the county may rival the 2008 presidential election when almost 70 percent of county’s voters…

WATER VALLEY – City police arrested a belligerent man who was intoxicated on Main Street last Thursday following a scuffle. Scott Lexa was arrested and charged with public drunk, disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Water Valley Police Chief Mike King reported Lexa was also wanted on a circuit court bench warrant and…

WATER VALLEY – Another round of testing was completed last month for the decades-old chemical release site at the former Colt Industries/Holley Carbure-tor facility. The work was performed by EnPro Industries, the company that acquired liability for the contamination for the site in 2002.  “EnPro has had consultants out there the last several weeks doing…

WATER VALLEY – Davidson Elementary School and Water Valley High School are both rated C schools for the 2015-16 school year, giving the school district an overall C rating. The letter grades for schools and districts are based on the Mississippi Statewide Accountability System released last week by the Mississippi Department of Education. This marks…

WATER VALLEY – Law enforcement officers have almost completed serving paperwork on a lengthy list of people indicted by grand juries in the first and second judicial districts in Yalobusha County last month. A few indictments have not been served and remained sealed. As with all cases, the defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty…

Much of the state including Yalobusha County remains under a burn ban following a proclamation signed by Governor Phil Byrant on October 11 at the request of the Mississippi Forestry Commission (MFC). The MFC requested the partial state level burn ban  due to the increase in wildfire occurrences, elevated drought conditions, dry vegetation, and the…

By David Howell Editor WATER VALLEY – The Second Chance Animal Alliance (SCAA) may be a step closer to building a new animal shelter after supervisors tentatively agreed to provide land on Hwy. 32 near the new county jail. Speaking at a recessed meeting last Friday, SCAA member Mandy Beard told county officials that the…