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New Albany School District celebrates ‘A’ rating

By J. Lynn West Editor   New Albany Elementary School pulled out all the stops to welcome State Superintendent of Education Dr. Carey Wright Nov. 4, but it was actually the students who were the stars of the program. That’s because the city schools earned its first “A” rating for the district and Wright was […]

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Evening of blues closes museum exhibit

By J. Lynn West Editor An overflow crowd spilled out into the halls and adjoining room Friday to hear the blues, jazz and boogie-woogie stylings of Mississippi artist Eden Brent. Brent with her husband, Bob, on trombone, was performing at the Union County Heritage Museum to mark the closing of the Cast of Blues exhibit […]

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Aldermen strive for more orderly meetings

City Board 5NOV2019: Citizens who regularly attend meetings of the New Albany Board of Aldermen found things a bit different this time. This was the first meeting of the board using a new policy to help keep meetings on track and from lapsing into overlapping discussion among those attending the meeting. Now, attendees are not […]

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Two felons with local connection arrested in separate events

Union County Sheriff Jimmy Edwards has informed NAnewsweb.com of two felons arrested earlier this week: The first arrest involved Gary Bruce Locke, age 45, of Toney, AL. Readers may recall that on January 31, 2019, a Union County deputy sheriff attempted to stop Locke, who was driving a stolen vehicle on Highway 30 in the […]

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New Albany wins Urban Forestry Community of the Year Award

The Mississippi Urban Forest Council presented its Scenic Community of the Year Award to the City of New Albany Thursday. The award was among several announced at the Council’s program on sustainability at the New Albany Civic Center Thursday and Friday. A range of city officials, landscapers, urban forestry professionals and park and recreation staff […]

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City schools honor middle school students for perfect scores

The New Albany School Board honored middle school students Monday who achieved more than 40 perfect scores on fifth through eighth grade state testing in English and Math. Principal Paul Henry said he thought this was the largest number ever of students with perfect scores and some students achieved perfect scores in more than one […]

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Baptist Union County celebrates years of service

Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union County recently honored colleagues who had reached years of service milestones in their careers at Baptist at the annual Employee Service Awards on October 29th. The total number of years of service achieved by this group of colleagues totaled 835 years. James Grantham, CEO and Administrator, presented the awards, along with Lori […]

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Union County general election results by precinct

Here are the election results listing vote totals for each race in Union County’s 20 precincts. These totals include the machine votes only, and not the absentee ballots, which did not significantly change results. The totals referred to in the story posted Tuesday do include absentee ballots. Unofficial results for Union County’s 20 precincts More […]

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J. Lynn West joins NAnewsweb.com

J. Lynn West has been named editor of New Albany’s NAnewsweb.com online news site. West recently resigned from The New Albany Gazette, with more than 40 years’ experience in providing news for the Union County community. He has served as editor and in other positions for the New Albany Gazette and New Albany News-Exchange. West […]

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County Board 4NOV2019: New hires, old phones & election

By: J. Lynn West, Editor The meeting of the Union County Board of Supervisors was typically brief Monday, despite having to deal with routine first-of-the-month business such as minutes, claims and work schedules. This, at least, allowed the county officials who are still facing election Tuesday to get out and engage in some last-minute campaigning. […]

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