Two local churches were involved in recovery efforts by Monday morning with others expected to follow. Local emergency operations director Royce McKee said Red Cross and Salvation Army relief is available to countians, and he asks that anyone engaging in such efforts to coordinate with him at 601-876-8823. He said New Home Church is acting…

Fifth district supervisor, Clennel Brown, told the board of supervisors at their Monday meeting that he plans to resign the post effective April 30. Brown said he has prepared a letter which will be delivered to supervisors. He has suffered health problems which became more pronounced last year. Brown was first elected in 2011, taking…

Supervisors say they have been constantly working to maintain roads, attempting to patch them, at least temporarily, until some of the roads can qualify for state money, or at least until money from the state’s relatively new lottery filters from the state to county treasuries, allowing them funding to rework and replace a network of…

Concern for COVID-19 took a back seat Easter Sunday as neighbors, first responders, firemen, supervisor crews, utility workers and others pitched in to help residents of northeastern Walthall County recover from a tornado that touched down during the late afternoon, damaging an unknown number of homes and outbuildings and a great deal of timber as…