Entries by NEMiss.News

Career & Technology Day, May 13, to include job fair

The New Albany School of Career & Technical Education is planning Career & Technology Day for May 13. This year plans are being made to add a job fair component to the event for New Albany High School juniors and seniors, as well as seniors from Union County Schools. The job fair will include opportunities […]

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Everyday Superheroes live in New Albany MS

First graders at New Albany Elementary School presented two performances of “Everyday Superheroes” on Friday, March 8. The program was about the qualities of everyday superheroes and how we all can be superheroes by exhibiting those qualities that we see in the heroes around us in our parents, first responders, doctors, nurses, and teachers, just […]

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New Albany Garden Club Poetry Contest Winners

New Albany, Miss., April, 2019 -The New Albany Garden Club recently hosted a poetry contest. Tracy Vainisi, garden club member and New Albany Middle School Young Gardener sponsor, offered the contest to 6th through 8th grade students. Students wrote poems and created art, both two- and three-dimentional to the theme “Pop Goes the Seed”. Over […]

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Jerry Liddell Jarvis, 72

Jerry Liddell Jarvis January 13, 1947 – April 8, 2019   Jerry Jarvis died Monday, April 8, 2019, at his residence. He was born January 13, 1947, in Union County to Andrew Jackson Jarvis, Jr., and Addie Jo Hill Jarvis. He was retired from Phelps Security in Memphis, TN. He is survived by his wife: […]

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Free beginner ballroom dance lessons offered in New Albany

Free beginner ballroom dance lessons are available every Monday evening at 6:30 p.m. in downtown New Albany. Lessons are given at the Henderson Building, one of downtown New Albany’s historic structures, which was finished in 1917. The lessons are sponsored by the USA Dance Northeast Mississippi Chapter. Free beginner ballroom dance lessons are led by […]

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2019 New Albany Passion Play “I Believe” at First Baptist

The 2019 New Albany Passion Play, “I Believe,” will have performances Palm Sunday weekend, on Friday, April 12th, Saturday, April 13th, and Sunday, April 14th at 7 o’clock p.m. each evening. Performances will be at First Baptist Church, New Albany. This annual free community event will feature full sets, authentic historical costumes, a live orchestra, […]

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NAES Employee of the Month for March 2019

The New Albany Elementary School Employee of the Month for March is Hattie McKenzie. Ms. Hattie happily greets faculty, staff and students with a huge smile and cheerful greeting each day. She serves as a kindergarten teacher assistant and has worked in the New Albany School District for 28 years. Melanie Shannon Public Relations New […]

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North MS Symphony children’s concert, “The Orchestra Moves!”

The North Mississippi Symphony Orchestra Association will present a free, live children’s concert for Second-Fifth Grade students of the New Albany Public School District at the New Albany High School Auditorium on Friday April 12, 2019. The students will perform with the North Mississippi Symphony at a 10:45 A.M. performance. This concert is sponsored by […]

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Virginia Carrilee Williams, 89

Virginia Carrilee Williams December 26, 1929 – April 7, 2019   Virginia Carrilee Williams, 89, passed away Sunday, April 7, 2019 at her home. She was born December 26, 1929 in Union County to the late Marion and Armetha Pannell Grubbs. She was a homemaker. She loved working in her flowers. She was a faithful […]

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2019 Home and Garden Show, Dancing Into Spring

Saturday, April 6, produced ideal weather for the 2019 Home and Garden Show in downtown New Albany. The temperature at midday was about 70 degrees, and there was plenty of sunshine. Bankhead Street between Court Street and Railroad Street was blocked off for the event and about 20 vendors displayed their wares. Vendors rated the […]

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