Entries by NEMiss.News

Local businesses up for statewide magazine honors

New Albany has been the recipient of several awards for its quality of life, including one national title for Best Small Town. Four of our businesses now have the opportunity to win some state honors. They have been nominated for the 2021 Mississippi Magazine Best of Mississippi Wedding poll. The local nominees are: Van-Atkins Jewelers […]

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Quick-thinking deputy saves victim from burning vehicle

    Quick action by a Union County deputy saved a victim from a burning vehicle New Albany Fire Chief Mark Whiteside told NAMissNEWS that emergency responders were dispatched Sunday afternoon to a one-vehicle accident near Myrtle Baptist Church with unknown entrapment and vehicle on fire. Fire units from Myrtle and New Albany Rescue responded. […]

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NA, most county schools have kept low COVID numbers

New Albany Superintendent of Schools Dr. Lance Evans reported to school trustees the district had no new cases of COVID-19 and no quarantine cases this past week. “We had a good week,” he said. Although specifics had not been reported earlier in the year, schools have seen some cases and quarantines. This week, for example, […]

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911 calls to sheriff’s office Sept. 28-Oct. 4

911 dispatch log from the Union County Sheriff’s Office for Sept. 28-Oct. 4 (Does not include traffic stops, medical calls or coroner’s calls)   Monday, Sept. 28: 8:34 a.m. – The BNSF Railroad called and advised a cow was on the tracks on County Road 278 at County Road 121. 1:24 p.m. – General complaint […]

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NAES students net honors for writing skills

        New Albany Elementary teacher Nina Beth Capaning held a workshop with fourth and fifth grade students and four were chosen to read their poems during the program Friday. Two used alliteration style and two used diamante style poems.   The winners are: Sophia Lopez, Alliteration – Eudora Welty, Fifth Grade Emma […]

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Methodist Church helping third-graders ‘Read for Life’

    First United Methodist Church of New Albany has entered into a community partnership with New Albany Elementary School to offer “Reading for Life”.  “Reading for Life” provides reading and literacy tutorial activities to NAES 3rd grade students who were selected by the school and identified as students who need additional reading help.  Weekly tutoring […]

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Business students take part in stock market simulation

Students in Alison Moore’s business classes at the New Albany School of Career & Technical Education have been studying economics, different types of economic systems, supply and demand, price ceilings and floors, buyer and seller markets, and government intervention. On October 1, students participated in a market simulation where students were either buyers or sellers. […]

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NAHS holds college countdown day

College Countdown Application Day was held Friday, September 25 at New Albany High School.  High school counselors assisted students in completing applications to colleges they are interested in attending.  Twenty-three seniors participated in College Countdown Application Day and there were 34 college applications submitted during the day. All NAHS seniors will complete a Northeast Mississippi Community College Application at a later date.  

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East Union going back to distance learning next week due to COVID cases

East Union Attendance Center will go to an all-virtual schedule next week, Oct. 12-16, because of having four students and five staff members with confirmed COVID-19 diagnoses. “We were planning on going virtual Monday and Tuesday anyway to use those days as practice in case we had to,” Union County School Superintendent Russell Taylor told […]

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