Entries by NEMiss.News

Meet a sweet little girl named Maria.

Meet Maria. She was one of three (Nina, Pinta and Maria) that were taken into foster care by UCHS. She needs a forever home like her siblings (Nina has been adopted!!). Maria is 8-9 months, pretty small for her age and very friendly. Maria has been spayed, vaccinated and flea treated. She’s very playful and […]

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NAES teacher’s “Listen while you work” earns grant funds

Tiffany Thrasher, a first grade teacher at New Albany Elementary School, recently earned funding from DonorsChoose.org for a classroom project called “Listen While You Work!”. Ms. Thrasher’s first grade class received a wireless classroom headphones set and several non-fiction, informational books for the classroom library. DonorsChoose.org is a free nonprofit website where teachers can receive […]

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Union Co. High School Art Exhibit opens at museum

Union County Art Exhibit Features many art forms  Lions, Tigers & Bears … It’s all in the annual  Union County High School Art Exhibit, which  opened this week at the Union County Heritage Museum in New Albany , and Oh, my!, there is really good art produced by the students. Watercolors, acrylics, sculpture, batik, pen and […]

2016 Freedom Fest and Riverfest plans announced

NEW ALBANY, MS – Freedom Fest, New Albany’s annual summer festival that will be held on Saturday, June 25, has opened up the registration for new arts and crafts market that will be added to the festivities this year. The festival will take place at the Park Along the River and will include the market, […]

Opinion: David Masters, New Albany

Editor’s note: NAnewsweb.com received this opinion piece from one of our readers. As always, we solicit thoughts and opinions from our community. The Hunger Games, which now have enthralled so many people and made many in Hollywood rich beyond Croesus, have little relevance to the actual situation existing in the world and in the United […]

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NAES Bullpup Pride Award winners, April 4th 2016

The following students at New Albany Elementary School received the Bullpup Pride Recognition Award because of their positive behavior during the week of April 4.  Pictured in no particular order are: K-2nd Grade   Evelyn Velasco, Remington Carroll, Johnathon Quarles, Katelyn Smithey, Katelyn Cannon, Joselyn Saldana, Elizabeth Perez, Layla Whitehorn, Joseph Flores, Max Sheffield, Keyla […]

Read it: MS HB 1523, the “Protecting Freedom of Conscience…Act”

The controversy over House Bill 1523, the “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act,” has roared through Mississippi, indeed all around the country during the past week. We have read through the law several times. It is 13 pages in length, written in “legalese” and, thence, not the most enjoyable prose we have read recently. In […]

Quick business as usual for County Supervisors, April 11

During a brief morning meeting Monday April 11th, the Union County Board of Supervisors: Listened to a presentation by Terry Westmoreland, an insurance agent from Arkansas representing Boston Mutual Life Insurance Company. Westmoreland asked the board’s permission to call on about 100 Union County employees to present them with a “supplemental life insurance program” under […]

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New Albany Home & Garden Show draws large crowd

The Union County Master Gardeners moved their 2016 New Albany Home & Garden Show to the downtown area this year.  Though they built a garden gate entry for the Courthouse lawn, it was still a little more difficult to “count the crowd” in the new, wide-spread location. But, there is no doubt that attendance was […]

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New Albany High School announces 2015-2016 STAR student

KeXin Weng has been named as a STAR (Student-Teacher Achievement Recognition) Student for the 2015-2016 school year by the Mississippi Economic Council’s M. B. Swayze Foundation, sponsor of the STAR program. The New Albany High School senior will be honored during the STAR Program at the annual Education Celebration on April 28, 2016, at the […]

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NAMS students tour University of MS and Rowan Oak

Melissa Tate’s Algebra I class and Troy Trout’s Accelerated English 8 class from New Albany Middle School enjoyed a field trip to the University of Mississippi and Rowan Oak on Friday, April 1.     Students were given a detailed tour of the National Center of Physical Acoustics and learned how math is used in working on […]