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New Albany, MS – City department heads are working on an ordinance that could make “street food” more available in New Albany. New Albany City Attorney Regan Russell told NEMISS.NEWS that the ordinance offered to the Board of Aldermen at its June 2 meeting is “obsolete,” a form not appropriate to current needs. […]
WTVA reported Sunday that a New Albany man died as a result of accidental drowning in the Tenn-Tom Waterway Saturday. The report said that Christopher O’Neal Brown, 24, was swimming with his family shortly before noon. He apparently jumped off a boat, came to the surface but then sank and did not resurface. The accident […]
The New Albany municipal government took an awkward first step last week toward making “street food” a reality in the city. The draft ordinance. providing for highly restrictive regulation of what the ordinance called “food trucks,” was offered for consideration at the city board’s June 2nd meeting. A storm – really a squabble – of […]
New Albany, MS – Lately I’ve been reacquainting myself with a writer I have, sadly, ignored for over fifty years. I was first introduced to Charles Dickens by my tenth grade English teacher, Ms. Velma Ruth McDonald. Our assignment was to read Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities and, as was customary back then, […]
Week of June 2-June 8, 2020* STATEWIDE MISSISSIPPI Mississippi had 2,016 new coronavirus cases and 98 new deaths this week, for a total of 17,768 cases and 837 deaths since March 11. These reports increased 12.8% and 13.3% respectively, compared to 17% and 16.3% last week. This is the second consecutive week of downward […]
New Albany, MS – A mixed-race crowd estimated at about 400 people gathered Sunday afternoon in downtown New Albany, in what its organizers called “a peaceful march for solidarity.” It was just that.They gathered first at the farmer’s market site on the left bank of the Tallahatchie River, just south of the […]
Tupelo MS – The Tupelo City Council voted at its June 1, 2020 meeting to approve the sale and purchase of several properties in the city. The lot formerly known as the Natchez Trace Inn is to be sold to Southeast Ventures, LLC at a cost of $207,500. Several council members were optimistic about the […]
Week of May 26 – June 1, 2020 Northeast MS – During the past week, statewide coronavirus cases climbed to 15,752 with deaths rising to 739. This was 17% increase in cases and a 6.3% increase in deaths. The percentage increase or cases and deaths were lower than the prior week’s 18% and 32%, respectively. […]
Editor’s note: This is the third and final article in NEMISS.NEWS’s series on the MDHS scandal. We continue with information about some of the players in the drama and how the people of Mississippi may be made whole. Who is Brett Favre? Brett Lorenzo Favre was born in Gulfport, October 10, 1969. His […]
Edited 6-2 to include full audit report PDF and page citations in body of post: New Albany, MS – There’s an old story about the wino accused of smoking in bed and thus setting fire to the cheap flophouse where he dwelled. Charged and dragged into court, the wino spoke powerfully in his own defense: […]
Last Friday NEMISS.NEWS published the first of three articles in a series about the massive embezzlement of money from the Mississippi Department of Human Services. It was something over 94 million dollars, according to a comprehensive audit. The Friday article included a summary of the audit itself and a link to the entire 104-page audit […]
New Albany, MS,Tuesday, May 26, 2020–Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union County was awarded an “A” ratingin the spring 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade. Baptist Union County joins two other Baptist hospitals in Mississippi in receiving an “A” rating, which are Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle and Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi. “We’re grateful to receive this recognition, especially as […]
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