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NAES August 2019 Employees of the Month

New Albany Elementary School’s Employees of the Month for August are: seated l-r: Mikki Whisenant & Bridget Spencer; standing l-r: Kelly Campbell, Jennifer Duncan, & Kelly Blackburn. Melanie Shannon Public Relations New Albany Schools

County Board 3SEP2019: 2019-2020 Budget, revenue, runway lighting

The Union County Board of Supervisors held a public hearing on its 2019-2020 budget during its regular Tuesday, Sept. 3rd meeting. The 84-page budget anticipates total revenue for the 2019-2020 fiscal year of $19,216,815. Included are an anticipated $8.4-million in property tax revenue; $1.95-million in license, commission and other revenue; $2.125-million from the federal government, […]

FYI: “Active Shooter” drill set for Baptist Hospital Union County

Local emergency management and law enforcement personnel will conduct an “active shooter” drill Thursday morning at Baptist Memorial Hospital – Union County. The Union County Emergency Management Agency, Union County Sheriff’s Office, New Albany Police Department and the Mississippi Department of Homeland Security will conduct the drill at the hospital on Highway 30. The training […]

Union Co. primary run-off election results

November general election candidates for five public offices in or directly affecting Union County were decided in Tuesday’s primary run-off election. Mississipppi Senate District Three Kathy Chism narrowly won the race for the open District Three seat in the state senate. Unofficial totals for the Third Senatorial District showed that Chism received 3,632 votes, a […]

GOP Primary Run-off election recommendations

Based on what we know of the candidates in the Mississippi 2019 primary election tomorrow, NAnewsweb.com makes the following recommendations. We make no recommendations in strictly local elections (county supervisor, etc.). We assume that most voters know those candidates personally. Governor Not a close call. We recommend Republican voters cast their ballots for William Waller, […]

Sam Creekmore already on the job

Although his pay will not start until he is sworn into office in January, Sam Creekmore IV was on the job in Jackson two days after the election. Creekmore won the Republican nomination for the District 14 seat in the Mississippi House of Representatives with a landslide victory over Robbins Ellis Rogers, winning 72 percent […]

Rules for Primary Run-off Election, August 27

Primary Runoff Election Day polling hours Primary Runoff Election Day is Tuesday, August 27, 2019. It is for Statewide, State District, Legislative, County, and County District Offices. Polling places open are open 7 a.m.-7 p.m. If you are in line by 7 p.m., you will be allowed to vote. Will I need proof of identification? […]

RANT: Political infrastructure games take actual human tolls

Three young Mississippians, two of them just 16 years old, died Friday from injuries sustained in a car wreck just inside the New Albany city limits. The two 16-year-old boys were heading south on Davis Road. Witnesses said the teenage driver was traveling at a high speed, dangerously passed another vehicle, lost control and collided […]

Wreck on Davis Road leaves two dead at scene/Edited 11:15 AM 8/24

Edited 8/24/2019 11:15 AM: Jason Bradley Davidson, age 49, of Corinth, died Friday evening August 23, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. He was the third victim to die from injuries sustained in an automobile accident, late Friday afternoon on Davis Road in New Albany,   Edited: 8/23/2019 11:00 PM: Union CountyCoroner Pam Boman has released […]

Anderson Parks is guest alumni speaker at NAHS

Anderson Parks spoke with IMPACTO interns, Jobs for Mississippi Graduates, ROTC, and Career/Tech students today as a New Albany Alumni guest speaker. Parks is a civil engineering major and Vice Wing Commander in the ROTC at Mississippi State University. He is a 2016 graduate of New Albany High School. Melanie Shannon Public Relations New Albany […]

New Albany and Ripley tell “A Tale of Two Fa(u)lkners”

New Albany, MS, August 2019- New Albany and Ripley will combine to tell the Tale of Two Fa(u)lkners, during Riverfest weekend. William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897, on Jefferson Street in New Albany, Mississippi. The 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1955 and 1963 Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction, and the 1951 and 1955 National […]

NAMS Implements Positive Referral Program

New Albany Middle School’s principal implemented a Positive Referral program to encourage positive behavior. When New Albany Middle School (NAMS) students saw Principal Paul Henry pushing around a wheel barrow the first week of school, some may have thought that he was helping with some of the construction that is going on in the building. […]