Entries by NEMiss.News

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Square Books’ Christmas recommendations at Luncheon with Books

Ready to start your Christmas shopping? Square Books is coming to New Albany. Tuesday, NOVEMBER 13 a representative from Square Books will be at the Jennie Stephens Smith Library for Luncheon with Books. She will have recommendations for Christmas gifts and new releases for fiction, nonfiction, Mississippi authors, and children’s books. This month’s Luncheon with […]

Presley: PSC Charges 11 More Telemarketers for No-Call Violations

Jackson, Mississippi (October 31, 2018) – For the second week in a row, the Public Service Commission has charged multiple telemarketers with no-call violations. Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley announced charges against 11 additional companies. The charges could result in a possible $1.7 million in fines. The PSC’s investigation found that these 11 companies made  […]

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NAHS marching band has its best ever performance at State Band Competition

  New Albany, Miss., October, 2018 – At the Mississippi High School Athletic Association’s 2018 Marching Band Competition, held October 27, New Albany School District’s high school marching band competed against fourteen bands at Northwest Rankin High School in Flowood, Mississippi. New Albany High School Marching Band, known as The Pride of New Albany, took home […]

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Annual Ingomar Mound event is Saturday, Nov. 3rd

The annual Ingomar Mound Event is set this Saturday, Nov. 3, from 10 a.m. till 2 p.m. , weather permitting. Ingomar Mound site is located south of New Albany off Highway 15 on CR 96. Visitors can tour Ingomar Mound, use ancient weapons The out door event allows visitors a chance to tour the mounds, […]

Rant: Why Mississippi needs younger candidates for political office

For the first time ever, both of Mississippi’s seats in the United States Senate will be decided in the same election cycle. For a state that receives about three dollars ($3.00) in federal revenue for each one dollar ($1.00) it pays in federal taxes, it’s a potentially momentous decision. The main reason Mississippi receives about […]

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NAES Happenings October

BUFFY COLEMAN VISIT Buffy Coleman, former member of the World Famous Harlem Wizards and motivational speaker, spoke to students at New Albany Elementary School on October 1st about the importance of setting wildly important goals, working hard to reach those goals, excellence in the classroom, and bully prevention.             STUDYING […]

Count Eeflac at Tanglefoot Trailhead Plaza

Count Eeflac will be at the Tanglefoot Trailhead Plaza in New Albany starting around 5:30PM on Saturday, Oct. 27th. He will be giving away some treats (but watch out for the tricks)! If you haven’t met the Count, come on out — he will be signing autographs. He is the horror host on Hill Country […]

Some days are just plain lucky!

No information on where she won her prize or what scratch off she prefers, but Greta Wilson, of New Albany, definitely had a luck day. She won $500 playing a $20 scratch-off ticket. If this happens to her often, she could consider giving strategy lessons to those among us who are anxiously awaiting the legal […]

RANT: The arrogance of AT&T and other monopoly communications “providers”

Posted a short time ago on NAnewsweb.com is Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley’s article about the arrogance of AT&T, suppressing any competition in wireless and other communications. I remember very keenly the excitement in 1974 when Richard Nixon’s Attorney-General, William Saxbe, filed the federal lawsuit which resulted in the break up of the AT&T/Bell System […]

Presley Condemns AT&T CEO’s Mockery of Alabama Internet Project

Jackson, Mississippi (October 25, 2018) – Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley described the latest tweet of AT&T CEO Mayo Flynt as a classic example of AT&T’s corporate arrogance. Yesterday’s tweet from the AT&T Mississippi CEO openly mocked the city of Opelika, Alabama’s broadband service which has experienced challenges, but made a sincere effort to serve their citizens. Flynt arrogantly tweeted […]

Fire destroys Mallalieu United Methodist Church/Updated

UPDATE: Photo taken 6:00PM, October 25, 2018   A fire early Thursday afternoon, Oct. 25, destroyed the Mallalieu United Methodist Church building at 433 Apple Street in New Albany. The fire is believed to have started in the church basement and was well established when the alarm was sounded. Several New Albany and Union County […]

Hay wagon catches fire, is moved 150 yards and fire extinguished

Two local fire departments, four fire-fighting vehicles, and a Union County-owned backhoe/front end loader responded to a fire on a hay wagon Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 23. Before you conclude it was over-kill, here are the salient facts: At about 3:35 p.m. a man was pulling a flat trailer, loaded with several large, round bales of […]