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New Albany retail sales tax continues to be above last year’s total and the tourism tax, despite two worrisome months, continues to improve as well. The retail sales tax dispersed to the city for July was $342,662 and the tourism tax was $79,814 The July retail sales tax is down about $2,500 from June, but […]
Johnnie Russell Davis, 73, died Aug.18, 2020. Funeral arrangements are incomplete with United Funeral Service in charge. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, outdoors at United Funeral Service.
The couple recently arrested in Florida for a car theft here are also facing church burglary charges and under investigation for possible other crimes. Police Chief Chris Robertson said the two, Daniel Cruz Britt, 33, 219 E. Hud St., Leesburg, and Kalley Breanne Foreman, 24, 1012 Moss Hill Drive, were initially accused of taking a […]
New Albany High School presented ACT 30+ Club T-shirts to Anniston Hodges and Madeline Blackburn on August 17, 2020 for their success on the ACT in July. Students who have a composite or subscore of 30 or more on their recent ACT are inducted into the club. More than 170 students have become members of the ACT 30+ Club since its creation in the fall of 2009.
By Geoff Pender Mississippi Today Commissioners selected these final five designs for the new Mississippi state flag on Tuesday. The Mississippi Flag Commission met Tuesday to narrow choices for a new state flag to five. These five designs — several of which the commission slightly tweaked on Tuesday morning — will be available for public viewing on […]
The New Albany Fire Department responded to two calls at the same time on Union Hill Road a little after 3 a.m. Friday – both believed to be weather-related according to Fire Chief Mark Whiteside. “We were dispatched overnight to a gas meter on fire at 1022 Union Hill road,” he said. “When the first […]
Workers are nearing completion in efforts to remove the demolished New Albany Wholesale Grocery warehouse across from the Union County Heritage Museum. The property was purchased by the museum, which continues to grow and needs more space. A company from south Mississippi is doing the cleanup at no cost to the museum, keeping the material […]
Would you like to buy some land cheap? You may have your opportunity Monday, Aug. 31, at the annual delinquent tax land sale. Each year property parcels for which taxes have not been paid are sold by the county at auction. For many years a traditional sort of round-robin in-person auction was used but not […]
Thomas Toole, youth minister at First United Methodist Church (FUMC) New Albany, took on an ambitious task Wednesday afternoon. Toole was teaching a few dozen teenagers the fundamentals of the sport known in 194 of the world’s 195 countries as “football.” The sport is also called soccer. Only in the United States is something […]
New Albany Light, Gas and Water manager Bill Mattox announced that the administrative office on Cleveland Street, including the drive-through lane, is closed until further notice. Some employees tested positive for coronavirus and the decision was made to protect the public and the rest of the staff. Mattox said the plan is for the office […]
The Union County Sheriff’s Department has a new deputy that can do things no other deputy can. He is Caesar, a specially-trained canine. Caesar is a two-year-old Belgian Malanois who has been in training since he was about eight months old. Deputy Chris Whiteside is his handler and spent two weeks of 12-hour days learning […]
BNA Bank has received New Albany’s Beautification Award for the fall quarter. Bank President Mike Staten and Assistant Vice-President/Cashier Anita Speck received the award Monday from Jolynn Cooke and Sandy Shaddinger, representing the New Albany Sustainability (beautification) committee. BNA is a locally owned bank, founded in New Albany 124 years ago. Headquarters and two […]
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