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Civic center manager Emily Draffen named finalist in playwriting competition

Magnolia Civic Center Manager Emily Draffen has been selected as a finalist in The NewWorks@TheWorks Playwriting Competition in Memphis. In connection with Playhouse on the Square, the competition provides an outlet for new playwrights to showcase their work and have a chance to see their play produced on a professional level. Draffen and five other finalists from […]

Child development students must care for ‘sugar babies’

Elke Lipsey’s Child Development class and April Voyles’ Health Science II class at the New Albany School of Career & Technical Education participated in a collaboration project on Thursday, Nov. 19. Students in the Child Development class are studying the parenting of infants and are taking care of their “sugar babies.”  During the project they […]

New Albany Elementary citizens of the month for November

New Albany Elementary School’s November Citizens of the Month are as follows:  Grace Berry, Maggie Kitchens, Malachi Erby, Isabella Nelson, Maysion King, Elliott McDonald, Savannah Dallas, Hadeel Rahimee, Joshua Hurd, Kaveon Conner, Anne Kate Henson, Jorja Kate Thomas, Olivia Harrelson, Allie Coombs, James Petty, Mackenzie Bullock, Amelia Patton, Isabella Lopez, A’Syiah Garner, Will Metts, Sophie […]

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.

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, […]

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.

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, […]