Entries by NEMiss.News

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About a self-framing photograph…

  Before “smart” phones, before people carried a camera of sorts always and everywhere, serious photographers paid a lot of attention to how a picture was composed. What was going to show in the picture? Were there distracting elements that took away from main focus of the photo? A famous news photograph of the Kent […]

New Albany Elementary August citizens of the month

New Albany Elementary School Citizens of the Month for August are as follows: Janice Poe Russell, Enzlei Edwards, Carolina Waldrop, Braden Ivy, Peyton Blackwell, Cohen Hankins, Vivian Mitchell, Cora Ridgeway, Ja’Nylah Standfield, Alaia Fonseca, Isla Yates, Larson Hall, Charlee Glasson, Fernanda Gonzalez, Brooklyn Hobson, Avalee Crowell, Eva Ordaz, Haylen Gibbs, Anna Grace Moore, Kaitlyn Kennedy, […]

New Albany’s Movie Reel 4 is reopening tonight, August 28th

    The Movie Reel on Coulter Drive in New Albany will be re-opening tonight, Friday, August 28, after having been closed for many weeks. Precautions are in place for health safety. Masks must be worn in the theater lobby, but may be removed when seated in the theater. Socially distanced seating will be available. […]

Expired: Kevin Douglas Holloway, 53

SALTILLO –  Kevin Douglas Holloway, 53, passed from this life to the next at his residence in Saltillo on Thursday, August 27, 2020.   Kevin was born in Tupelo on January 30, 1967.  He lived most of his life in Lee County except for 13 years in Booneville.  A graduate of Mooreville High School in 1985, […]

New Albany Light, Gas and Water still closed

The Cleveland Street office of the New Albany Light, Gas and Water Department remains closed, although manager Bill Mattox said the plan is to  reopen it Monday, Aug. 31. The closing came last week when several of the small staff tested positive for the coronavirus. City officials deemed it unsafe to operate with only a […]

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Dance Like The Stars raises over $259,000 for Boys & Girls Clubs of North Mississippi

The Boys & Girls Clubs of North Mississippi’s Dance Like the Stars event raised over $259,000 for the youth development organization and New Albany representative Kimberly Langley tied for the Facebook Peoples Choice Award.  The other winner was Keri McMillin of Tupelo. The annual event broadcast on August 22 from the BancorpSouth Arena in Tupelo and has been […]

No candidates yet for county school board seat

No one had qualified as of Wednesday to run for the county school board seat that will be on the November general election ballot. The deadline is Friday, Sept. 4. Potential candidates for the school board have only a one-month window in which to qualify. The period began Aug. 5. Union County Circuit Clerk Phyllis […]

Work progresses on new wastewater treatment plant

Work continues on the city’s new wastewater treatment plant under construction just across the Tallahatchie River north of town. The approximately $15 million project was estimated to take a year and a half and includes new high-pressure lines running from the present plant to the new site and is being funded with a USDA grant […]