Entries by NEMiss.News

Boys and Girls Club gets culinary arts mini-camp

Anita Alef, Culinary Arts Instructor at the New Albany School of Career & Technical Education visited the Boys & Girls Club of New Albany on September 14-15 and provided an after-school mini camp. On Day 1, students learned the components of a healthy menu and about portion sizes.  The students used different serving and measuring […]

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Still smiling: a bouquet for Joyce Sumners

  Look up the word noble and you will find synonyms including honest, honorable, upright, decent, magnanimous, trustworthy, and sublime. Many in northeast Mississippi know all those words can be correctly applied to Joyce Sumners. Invariably gracious, kind, and cheerful, Joyce Sumners comes as close as anyone I have known to being a natural aristocrat. […]

Morris among winners of Mississippi Library Association 2020 Mississippi Author Awards

The Mississippi Library Association has announced the winners in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, and Children’s Literature for the 2020 Mississippi Author Awards and they include New Albany native Dr. Joe Edd Morris. The Mississippi Authors Awards seek to recognize and encourage Mississippi authors and promote interest in local authors’ books, whether the books are […]

Stewart discusses ‘Go Down Moses’ as part of Faulkner Literary Week

  Dr. Kate Stewart modestly claims no expertise concerning William Faulkner but the Cotton Plant native has still become the de facto local authority on the Nobel Prize-winning writer. She regularly assists with the Faulkner Literary Competition and often provides reviews and commentary on Faulkner’s works. Thursday, she was on Facebook Live talking about Go […]

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Union, Lafayette officers charge Holly Springs man with series of burglaries and sexual assaults in two counties

The Union County Sheriff’s Department and Oxford Police Department are charging a Holly Springs man with a series of burglaries, home invasion and sexual assault in the two counties. Sheriff Jimmy Edwards said they hope that releasing this may cause more people to come forward with information about other cases that may be related.   […]

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Car chase suspects possibly in multi-state crime spree

The couple arrested in connection with a vehicle theft and high-speed chase Thursday were likely on a multi-state crime spree according to Union County Sheriff Jimmy Edwards. Both individuals have extensive criminal records and outstanding warrants in other jurisdictions, he said. Robert Oneal Turner, 42, and Melissa Louise Hawks, 41, were apprehended on a creek […]

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Sheriff reports car chase suspects in custody

The Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol and Union County Sheriff’s Department reported early Friday that a man suspected of stealing an SUV from someone while the person was in the Walnut post office had been captured. According to the report, the man, accompanied by a female, was found during the night in a wooded area near […]

Presley to hold virtual town hall meeting this week

On Thursday, September 17 at 6 p.m. Commissioner Brandon Presley will hold a Virtual Town Hall Meeting to hear from constituents across North Mississippi. During the Town Hall, Commissioner Presley will give an update on the expansion of broadband to rural areas as well as take questions from the audience that they may have regarding their […]

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Colors of late Summer

  There are less than two weeks before summer ends on September 22. It has been a relatively mild summer in north Mississippi, with very few days that temperatures climbed above the mid 90s. Our entire section of the state is awash with color. There has been plenty of rain, and the colors of late […]