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Community Backpack Blessing July 27-2025 at 11a.m.. Tillatoba Baptist Church Bring your backpack to our Sunday morning service and let us pray over it and to encourage you as you began a new school year. This is open to anyone in the community. You do not have to be a member to participate. Diane Dukes…

4-H Terrific Tuesdays are happening this summer at the Extension office. We will have a program every Tuesday in July at 2:00-3:30 p.m. for youth ages 8 to18. Children under 8 must have an adult to attend with them. Each program is free. However, in order to have enough supplies for all participants, please call…

Watercolor Class at Coffeeville Thursday, July 10 Betsy Corso from Taylor, MS will present a beginning watercolor class this week’s Thrilling Thursday at Coffeeville Public Library on July 10 from 4:00 -5:00. Betsy, an artist and former art teacher at Water Valley HS, will be here to lead this creative program. Elementary age children and…

Happy 62nd birthday to the sweetest dearest daughter in the world, Tammy Arlette Williams Beshears. She will celebrate her birthday Friday, July 11, 2025. I love you to the moon and back three times, Mama. -0- Tammy and I went to the eye doctor in Water Valley Friday. We saw Taylor Evans for the first…

85 YEARS AGO July 26, 1940 The body of Mrs. Annie Mae Rounsaville Nix, wife of Dr. Horace Nix, was conveyed from their home in Charleston to the Dividing Ridge Cemetery Monday afternoon for burial. Governor Paul B. Johnson has Colonel Kermit R. Cofer of Water Valley as a member of the Yalobusha County Election…

Have you ever found yourself in the kind of situation where you thought, “I didn’t ask for this”? Most of us have. Whether the situation was a somewhat meaningless or something that was life changing, almost all of us have found ourselves in situations when we just thought, “I didn’t ask for this.” In the…

I hope all of you are surviving this hot weather and drinking plenty of water. 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 home and put him to bed. After…

Thrilling Thursday at Coffeeville Thursday, June 26 “Thrilling Thursdays” at Coffeeville Public Library are free programs for older children and youth on Thursdays 4:00 – 5:00 PM. Come join the fun this Thursday, June 26, at 4:00 when we will make masks. Supplies are provided. The programs are free, and no registration is required. Volunteers…

75 YEARS AGO June 29, 1950 Two of Coffeeville’s Eagle Scouts, J. Russell Bailey, Jr. and Ralph Lawrence Peeples, left last weekend for the Second National Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America, which is being held at Valley Forge National Park in Pennsylvania June 30-July 6. More than 30 people drove to Coffeeville from…