Entries by NEMiss.News

Elementary students combine music with technology

Students at New Albany Elementary School are using technology in their Music Explorations rotation.  They used the Garage Band app to play rhythms made up of Quarter notes, Quarter Rest and Eighth notes on unpitched percussion instruments during a recent Music Explorations rotation.  Celia House is the music explorations teacher at NAES.

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Pizza with the Principals winners for Nov. 9-13

Each Friday during the months of October and November a drawing is held for all students at New Albany Elementary School who have had perfect attendance that week. Winners of the weekly drawing get to enjoy Pizza with the Principals for Perfect Attendance. Zephaniah Frank, Ava Allred, and Bowen Pickens, winners of the perfect attendance drawing for November 9-13, […]

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Dunn chosen New Albany Middle School Teacher of the Year

New Albany Middle School Principal Paul Henry and NAMS staff members congratulate Lyndsey Dunn on being chosen as NAMS Teacher of the Year.  Dunn teaches mathematics. From left are Heather Hefner, Julie Newton, Tracy Vainisi, Henry, Dunn, Mallory Horn and Chelsea Hamilton.

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Elementary food drive nets 4,500 items for needy

New Albany Elementary School students, from left to right (top photo), Tyler Rast, Justice Clark, Owen Mayo, JT Morphis, Ethan Owens, Ezekiel Brooks, Kyler Roberts, and from left to right (bottom photo) Sean Coleman and Clayton Coleman, helped gather and sort food donations collected during the NAES annual fall food drive. Collected food will be donated to the Good Samaritan Center, […]

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Baptist Union County recognizes nurse who performs above and beyond expectations

NEW ALBANY, Miss., November 19, 2020 – Shelby Akins, RN, at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union County, recently received the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses, an award given in appreciation of the work nurses do.  Adkins, a nurse in the emergency department, was nominated by a patient’s family member. Nurses like Adkins are nominated by patients, families, […]

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VIP cinema seating company restarting operations here

Theater seating manufacturer VIP Luxury Seating is restarting operations in New Albany, creating 100 new jobs. The project is a $180,000 corporate investment at the site of the former VIP Cinema seating. “The commitment by the VIP Luxury Seating team to the people of Union County is evident as they revamp operations and bring back […]

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Margaret Louise May Stiles, 67

BLUE SPRINGS – Margaret Louise May Stiles, 67, departed this life for the life everlasting on Tuesday afternoon, November  17, 2020 from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Margaret was born in Tutwiler, MS on April 30, 1953, the daughter of the late Ewell Glenn May and Doris Geraldine Driggers May.  She grew up in the Mississippi […]

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