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After several days of basically no reporting, followed by a “catch-up” report covering 5 days, the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) issued a 24 hour report today. The report contained a shocking 611 new positive coronavirus cases. Until Tuesday’s report, the previous high was the 489 cases reported June 17, the last report before […]
Week of June 16-22, 2020* STATEWIDE MISSISSIPPI Mississippi had 2488 new COVID-19 cases and 83 new deaths this week, for a total of 22,287cases and 978 deaths since reporting began on March 11, 2020. These reports represent increases of 12.6% and 9.3% respectively. This compares to 11.4% and 6.9% last week. The trend in […]
Anyone with proper motivation and a little initiative could see to it that Mississippians get basic, reliable health information related to COVID-19 on a daily basis.
Mississippians are not getting consistent information or much more than lip service for public safety, so they need to be looking after themselves where COVID-19 is concerned.
The New Albany Police Department was investigating a possible shooting Thursday night about 9 p.m. according to Chief Chris Robertson. He said no details were available yet as they were still investigating but the incident apparently occurred in the area of Church and Simmons streets and it was believed that a young man was taken […]
Week of June 9 – June 15* STATEWIDE MISSISSIPPI Mississippi had 2,031 new covid-19 cases and 58 new deaths this week, for a total of 19,799 cases and 895 deaths since reporting began on March 11, 2020. These reports represent increases of 11.4% and 6.9% respectively. This compares to 12.8% and 13.3% last week. […]
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 […]
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