Under the Water Tower

8/22/24- Board of Alderman lay a ton of things to look for on the horizon! Also, Coach McCann joins us to discuss football team and were the program is headed! If you like what your listening too, please subscribe and if don't mind, leave a positive review on your podcast app! We do not own the rights to any music used but sure enjoy the great sounds! Social Media : X @utwpod FB @utwpodcast email:...

8/15/24- List of improvements coming to downtown Hernando, Hernando Volleyball preview with Coach Cross, and more!! If you like what your listening too, please subscribe and if don't mind, leave a positive review on your podcast app! We do not own the rights to any music used but sure enjoy the great sounds! Social Media : X @utwpod FB @utwpodcast email: underthewatertowerinfo@gmail.com Sponsors t...

8/8/24- Baseball fields and surrounding lands bought and annexed, new sewer projects, and more this week! If you like what your listening too, please subscribe and if don't mind, leave a positive review on your podcast app! We do not own the rights to any music used but sure enjoy the great sounds! Social Media : X @utwpod FB @utwpodcast email: underthewatertowerinfo@gmail.com GoFundMe for Rudd Fa...

8/1/24- UTW comes back for season 4 and catches everyone up with local news, special segments, and more! If you like what your listening too, please subscribe and if don't mind, leave a positive review on your podcast app! We do not own the rights to any music used but sure enjoy the great sounds! Social Media : X @utwpod FB @utwpodcast email: underthewatertowerinfo@gmail.com Sponsors that make sh...

Preview / trailer for our return to the air! New vigor, segments, and host with the same great content you loved from the past 4 years!

Episode Notes On our last weekly show, we reminisce about what we loved from doing the show, and how we will miss talking and giving information about the town we love. But we weren't going to go a whole episode without passing on information- We make you aware of County redistricting, and to make sure you find out if it affects you. We give our final shoutouts of upcoming events over the next cou...

Episode Notes On what is now our Penultimate Weekly Episode, we explain our reasoning, before delving into the aldermen meeting from this week. In the meeting, we hear about a new parks committee, how the City leaders are asking for Federal money, and what the city's new Food Truck Ordinance will look like. We let everyone know all that the Library will be doing this summer, and of course go over...

Episode Notes On today's episode, we start the show by wishing Happy Birthday to our Sponsor, and end the show wishing our Mothers Happy Mother's Day. In between, we talk about your past week, we hope we don't experience an O' Brother Where Art Thou experience, why we hope the elections in August don't mirror August 1903, and then let you know of outcoming events. In Sports, we say farewell to the...

Episode Notes On today's Episode, we celebrate an unofficial holiday by catching you up on everything that has happened since our last show. We then delve deep into the aldermen meeting, and why it was a historic day for the Hernando Parks and Rec. We then inform you to not believe the misinformation on people with better credit scores subsidizing those with less, and why it will cost a little mor...

Episode Notes On today's show, we catch you up on a busy weekend in North MS, and why sometimes you just need to stop at one. We then inform you about Desoto County getting more DA help, we congratulate the students who were honored at the school board meeting, and tell you how MS set a new record last month. Our places to go in Desoto County takes us to Horn Lake this week, where we talk about a...

Episode Notes On today's show, we talk about about a big event for Derick's family that may or may not involve infighting. We then talk about something both fun and serious that happened over the weekend. before turning to a marathon aldermen meeting that involved disagreement and discussion that was respectable and did not become a feud. Our Shoutouts highlight the busy weekend in Hernando, where...

Episode Notes On today's episode, we bask in the sun from the last few days and sit down to talk about what has happened over the last week in our lives. We then tell you where you can start signing up for summer school if your child needs to take classes, how MS is 2nd in something, and why while inflation is slowing down, you will still not know it if you need shelter or food. In Shoutouts, we t...

Episode Notes On today's episode, you may always think our show is a circus, but today we discuss the real circus coming to down almost a century in a half ago, and how that would still draw a massive crowd today. But before that, we discuss last weekends storms and what we did over the weekend, we break down this weeks alderman meeting, and we summarize the MS Legislature's finalizing the numbers...

Episode Notes On Today episode, we look back at the terrible storms that hit MS last Friday night, and continue to pray for and ask people to send support. We then turn out attention to two topics from the last Board of Supervisors meeting- an interesting pay increase request and the new Civic Center expansion that is finally about to start. We then look at the State legislature- where certain peo...

Episode Notes We are back after a week off from Spring Break to bring you up to date on all the news in Hernando. We start with this week's aldermen meeting- where the redistricting for the next 7 years has been completed- followed by news of a candidate dropping out a Senate race. We then tell you why you may not be driving a Tesla bought in MS anytime soon, and why you have a few more days to fi...

Episode Notes On today's episode, we catch you up on our mostly uneventful past week, before delving into a 2 hour aldermen meeting dealing mostly with a PUD revision and the beginning of a round-about discussion. We then give you our Fact of the month from the Desoto County Museum, and go through a big weekend of shoutouts coming up at the end of the month. We end the show with 3 signings, and Ma...

Episode Notes On today's episode, we welcome in the month of March with a classic song, and talk about what has been going on in our personal lives since the last show. We then update you on ice days not having to be made up, before talking about a couple of new things coming to Silo Square. Speaking of Silo Square, we talk about changes coming to the Landers Center and the Amphitheater, before ma...

Episode Notes On today's show, we looking back at the sold out Mardi Gras Ball last weekend, and thank all those who contributed, helped, and came. We then turn our attention to the aldermen meeting that took place on Tuesday, where a new sign ordinance was discussed, and the main item was tabled until next meeting. We make listeners aware of a Pothole hotline that has been set up to report road d...

Episode Notes On today's episode, we get ready for Mardi Gras Weekend by quickly discussing the fundraiser by the Krewe tomorrow night. Only about 20 re-released tickets remain, so go to the Krewe's Instagram to get yours. Then we catch up on everything that happened since our last show; we get excited about what looks like real funding for the first Phase of the I-55 widening; we then update you...

Episode Notes On today's episode, we try not to inflate any stories too much as we talk about what has happened in the last week. We then take you on a ride through the aldermen meeting, celebrate a grant that the city got for bike lanes, and then make you aware of a bill that passed the MS House that needs to be made law. Our fact of the week looks back at an ice storm worse than the one we saw l...

Episode Notes On today's episode, its another day of ice and no school, which is fitting that this is Groundhog week. We are all living the nightmare. We start the show by giving our thoughts on the Tyre Nichols video that came out over the weekend, and how hopefully changes can be made. We then look at the candidates who applied to run for the different positions that will effect people Under the...

Episode Notes On today's show, we look to how the graduation rates have increased over the last 9 years, and how well Desoto County is doing as a whole. We then make you aware of bills starting to make their way through the legislature, but won't go too deep until they actually head to the Governor's desk (the ones that survive). We tell you about 3 great upcoming events in Shoutouts, and then rec...

Episode Notes On today's show, we look back at a Church-filled, long weekend before delving into the aldermen meeting for this week. We then debut a new segment on the show- places you may not know about in Desoto County. We then look back at how well we did on our NFL picks, and catch you up on a busy week of high school sports. We end the show with the upcoming events in shoutouts, and then sign...

Episode Notes On this week's show, we delve into the bill making in Mississippi, we see why Tik Tok is a no go for public communications in MS, we discuss someone choosing not to run for the legislature, and how inflation decline for the 3rd month in a row. We give you this week's fact of the month, and we introduce a revamped sports section, covering both nationwide and local sports. Stick around...

Episode Notes The first show of 2023 is out! Tune in to our new show format, with a lot of your old favorites, as well as some new touches. Today we will reminisce about our Christmas vacations, before turning our attention to the current news Under the Water Tower. We then critique our predictions for 2022, before giving you ours for 2023 at the Local, State, and National level. Finally, we catch...