Under the Water Tower

Episode Notes On today's show, we come back from a beautiful weekend to discuss our Words From the Weekend, before turning our attention to Desoto County Schools. We discuss a summer reading program for 3rd Graders, and summer school in general, including an underrated movie. Next, we look at a new hotel coming up in a new location in Southaven, we talk about dog trials in our Fact of the Week, an...

Episode Notes On today's show, we celebrate the starting of the Master's golf tournament, before delving into this week's aldermen meeting, where we finally celebrate the plan for the Animal Shelter. Next, we look at how the State allocated the ARPA funds, before turning to the upcoming events in Desoto County. Finally, in Sports, we recap the week so far and preview the upcoming games. Please sub...

Episode Notes On today's episode, we start this rainy Tuesday by giving you our words from a much prettier weekend. We then cover the Passing of the Legislation to allow Hernando to vote for a Penny for the Parks. Next, we preview several discussions that will take place at the aldermen meeting tonight, and tell you why MS is definitely the Music State. Of course, you can bet that we have your fac...

Episode Notes On today's episode, we talk about surviving the storm, before delving into Annexation talk from Southaven; explaining the State Legislature buying themselves some more tim;, shoutout several upcoming events in April, including one tomorrow morning; and then recapping one signing and all the games since Tuesday in Sports. Please subscribe where you listen and on Apple iTunes, and plea...

Episode Notes On today's episode, our words from the weekend look at how adaptable we are, and then talk about the slap heard around the world. We then give you the update on where the ability to vote for Pennies for the Parks stands for Hernando. We discuss a historic income tax reduction for the residents of MS, and then briefly look at other bills that are still alive. Tuesday means a county wi...

Episode Notes On today's episode, our State teachers finally get the pay raise that has been discussed for 3 months, and they will now be paid more than the Nationwide average. Great job, legislators-well, except for a couple of you. We then look at great employment numbers for MS, and how close the State may be to reducing the State income tax. In Shoutouts, we go over several events coming up in...

Episode Notes On today's episode, we are back after Spring Break and we delve in to the madness that is March- from going back to school after Spring break, to the weather, to sports, and to what is going on in the economy. We catch up on several local stories, including the hiring of the new Sports Director for Hernando, mentioning a special aldermen meeting that took place 2 weeks ago, before de...

Episode Notes On this Ides of March episode, we watch our backs as we head into Spring Break by first giving you our Words from the Weekend. We then preview what should be a long aldermen meeting tonight that we look forward to following up and reviewing next Tuesday. Our Fact of the Week is very ironic for all the right reasons. And in Sports, we recap just a couple of games that happened due to...

Episode Notes On today's episode, we enter the Spring Break weekend looking at more MS State Legislative bills that either died or continued on this week. We then talk about the wonderful ways that St. Jude is helping those in the Ukraine, before announcing a plethora of upcoming events in the area in our Shoutouts. Finally, there were not as many games this week due to the rain, but there was one...

Episode Notes On today's episode, we talk about our completely different words from the weekend, before making some people aware of new voting locations, and then we take a deep dive discussion into the latest bill to hit the Governor's desk. Our fact of the week gives us the exact birthday/anniversary of our beloved Hernando, and in Sports, we recap the softball and baseball games since our last...

Episode Notes On today's show, we give you news from the city, county, and state level by discussing the aldermen meeting, mentioning a postponement of a major road widening, and looking at the bills that are still alive- and those that have died- in the State Legislature. We then shoutout the upcoming events in the area, and finish with Sports- where we look at 4 signings and then begin our initi...

Episode Notes It is the first of the month, and we start out the episode talking about our words from the weekend, that have a lot to do with a wonderful fundraiser that took place. We then preview the aldermen meeting taking place tonight that could have a couple of interesting or divisive topics. We briefly discuss DCRUA getting more money, before looking at city budgets from 1925 in the Fact of...

Episode Notes On today's episode, we discuss 2 events that happened this week in Hernando and Desoto County- the Hernando Chamber, and the FCA Breakfast, respectively. We then look at the bill the Senate passed to reduce the State Income tax, among other things, that will now look to go to conference. It's Mardi Gras weekend, so we will discuss the Krewe Ball in shoutouts, and look at 2 other upco...

Episode Notes On today's episode, we look back on a busy, beautiful weekend for both of us, before we get into our Words from the Weekend, where we mourn and celebrate the life of a great therapist, father, and asset to Hernando. We then discuss how new telehealth therapy could help Desoto County students, before learning about the formation and early life of Arkabutla Lake- a sometimes forgotten...

Episode Notes On today's 150th episode- can't believe we are 150- we have a little fun with this milestone and talk about yesterday's storms with our Top 5 rain songs, before we dive into the main part of our show. We break down all that happened during this past Tuesday's aldermen meeting, talk about the upcoming events in Hernando in Shoutouts, and then congratulate a signee and recap the beginn...

Episode Notes On today's episode, we record a day early due to basketball and work constraints, but we still have a packed show, starting with a brief look back at the Super Bowl from this weekend. We then delve into our words from the weekend, where we look at the Nostalgia and the Teamwork from our weekends. In our news portion, we give an update on roadwork going on on I-55- you are going to wa...

Episode Notes On today's show, UTW will give you our guide to setting the mood for your Valentine's Day on Monday. That's right guys, Valentine's Day is Monday! If she says she does not want anything, she is lying. We also briefly discuss the Planning Commission meeting this week, how inflation is affecting all of us, and our Shoutouts for the week. We then deep dive into songs to play this Valent...

Episode Notes On Today's episode, we go over our words from the weekend, where we have different takes on the ice event that happened late last week. We then look at new places for some Hernando residents to vote in this year's elections, we get everyone ready for Valentine's Day with our Fact of the Week, and we break down the last regular season basketball games as the District tournaments start...

Episode Notes On today's episode, we record a day early to make sure you don't have to battle the ice without getting your Hernando updates. We reminisce about a nostalgic song before we delve into the aldermen meeting from Tuesday, then look at Mississippi officially allowing medical marijuana. Next we look up upcoming events in Shoutouts, and finish with a football signing and a recap of the bas...

Episode Notes On today's podcast, there is a Bill in the House for a possible new State song, and we give our opinion on how that could be settled. We also discuss our words from the weekend; we preview a topic packed aldermen meeting tonight; we cover a portion of Desoto County "going green"; we look back at a bond issue that gave us our Podcast name in the Fact of the Week; and in spor...

Episode Notes On today's 144th episode, we find out it is not longer Christmas season; we discuss the passing of the Medical Marijuana bill by both houses and how the Governor will address it; we break down and explain a wonderful fundraiser happening one month from tomorrow; and in sports, we discuss the soccer playoffs, with heartbreaking losses for a couple of teams, and one great win for a tea...

Episode Notes On today's episode, Matt sits down with the new Hernando Parks Director, Jared Barkley, to discuss his vision for the Parks going forward (17:50). We also share some good news about working for the Desoto County Schools; give updates on 2 Senate bills that passed without the whole Senate there; a National Fact of the Week that may surprise you about the Founding Fathers; a recap of t...

Episode Notes Today we are going to ask the question that everyone else is asking around town, and if you do not know what that is, please listen in to find out and would love for you to email us your take. We will also review the aldermen meeting from this past Tuesday, summarize the reaction from the Supervisors public meeting on proposed zoning change, talk about medical marijuana passing the H...

Episode Notes On today's episode, we record a day early due to having some time off on Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. We honor Dr. King, before we go into our words for the weekend, which are different than they would have been to start the week. Next, we preview the aldermen meeting tonight, and then give you a slightly illegal Fact of the Week. We wrap up today's show with another exciting sig...

Episode Note On today's episode, we look at more bills discussed at the State level. These include possible medical marijuana, repeal of the income tax, live streaming of all public meetings, and greater teacher pay raises. But before that, we discuss a hot topic in the county- the possible rezoning of AR land proposed by the County Planning commission. We also look a the Krewe Ball in more detail...