Entries by NEMiss.News

New Albany football players team up for the community

New Albany football team members cleaned up several lawns on Adams Street, Thursday, Feb. 8th. The Bulldogs did the work as a community service project, raking up and bagging leaves. The players also cleaned leaves and trash from the gutters along the Adams Street.

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Poolville murder story updated: victim, shooter identified.

UPDATED 9:25 PM FEBRUARY 10: Union County Sheriff Jimmy Edwards has identified the dead gunshot victim and the man accused of shooting him early Saturday afternoon in the Poolville community. In the Union County jail charged with murder is Bobby Joe Cobb, age 28. No bond has been set. The  victim is Jeffrey Whitten, who died at […]

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Free smoke alarms available to qualified city and county residents

Many New Albany and Union County residents will receive free smoke alarms within coming weeks. Red Cross of North Mississippi personnel delivered 500 new ten-year smoke alarms to New Albany’s Fire Station #1 on Cleveland St., Friday afternoon, Feb. 9th. The smoke alarms will be distributed by county volunteer departments and the New Albany Fire […]

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Man and pets die in Union County fire

A man, not yet officially identified, and multiple household pets died in a fire early Friday morning in western Union County. The fire, said to have occurred shortly after midnight, completely destroyed the single-story dwelling on County Road 14. Authorities said the house had been rented to a Roger Holmes. The state fire marshal’s office […]

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Author Julie Cantrell is Luncheon with Books speaker

Luncheon with Books on Tuesday, February 20th, at the Jennie Stephens Smith Library in New Albany will be a special treat. Mississippi author Julie Cantrell from Oxford will discuss her latest book Perennials. The book is about two estranged sisters who reunite for their parents’ 50th anniversary. Julie did research for this book at the Union […]

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Museum Moments to examine extinct businesses, schools, communities

February’s Museum Moments features the research done on the African American History of New Albany and Union County titled “From Goat City to The Hill & Goose Hollow to The Flat” on Thursday, Feb. 15, noon at the Union County Heritage Museum in New Albany. Sam Mosley and other members of the African American Concerned […]

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Public Service Commission closes book on Kemper

Jackson, Miss (February 6, 2018)- At its open meeting this Tuesday, the Public Service Commission unanimously voted to approve an agreement regarding Mississippi Power Company’s Kemper County Power Plant bringing the lengthy contested proceeding to a close. The settlement comes as a result of a Commission Order in June 2017, in which the Commission encouraged […]

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Supervisors discuss industrial parks, road construction

Development of two industrial parks was the subject of multiple agenda items at the Union County Board of Supervisors’ February 5 meeting. Gary Chandler of the Three Rivers Economic Development District discussed projects known as “Martintown East” and “Martintown West.” The proposed Martintown East would be on land currently owned by the PUL Alliance. That […]

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Kiwanis Hixson Award winners honored

January 30, 2018 the Kiwanis Club of New Albany honored Britt Smith and Bob Spencer with the Hixson Fellowship Award. In 1983, the Kiwanis Children’s Fund established the George F. Hixson Fellowship. Named for Kiwanis International’s first president, Hixson Fellowships are awarded as a way of recognizing people who have contributed significantly to Kiwanis’ history […]

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Federal employees: the unconstitutional fourth branch of government?

Whatever the merits or outcome of the most recent battle, Trump/GOP Congress vs. FBI, it is merely the latest skirmish in a long war. It is a conflict that pits elected officials against career federal employees, entrenched, unaccountable, and generally un-fireable. The most notable early such fight came when Andrew Jackson, the nation’s seventh president, took […]

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