Entries by NEMiss.News

Pedaling for Hope bike ride to be August 18

The second annual Pedaling for Hope bike ride will be Saturday, August 18, 2018. Registration will start at 7AM at the Trailhead in New Albany at 100 E. Bankhead Street with the race beginning at 8:00 AM. This is a partnership between New Albany Main Street and Regional Rehab Center in Tupelo. Proceeds will go […]

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2018 Back-to-School Health Fair: It’s some serious fun

Over 1000 people attended the 2018 Back-to-School Health Fair hosted by Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union County, Saturday, August 11th. Approximately 450 kids, plus one or more parents and grandparents for each child were present during the morning event on the hospital campus. About 1200 hot dogs were consumed and free school supplies were given away. Kids […]

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Fire guts house on Thomas Circle in New Albany

The occupants of a house on Thomas Circle in New Albany lost “most everything they had” in a fire shortly after 8 pm Friday evening, Aug. 10. Firemen of the New Albany Fire Department (NAFD) were on the scene quickly and extinguished the fire. The outer part of the structure showed little damage in the […]

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City Board August 2018: TempesT over Tree SpoTs

The TempesT over Tree spoTs, sTarTed in April, will conTinue Tossing Talks aT New Albany Town Board meeTings ‘Til winTer Takes iTs Turn afTer auTumn. Ward Two Alderman Johnny Anderson moved at the Tuesday, August 7, meeting of the Board of Aldermen to remove the oak trees planted in April along Park Plaza Drive and […]

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Presley: PSC Revoked 17 Telecommunication Companies’ Licenses

Northern District Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley announced Tuesday, August 7th, that the Public Service Commission has revoked the certificates of 17 telecommunications companies to do business in Mississippi due to their failure to provide the PSC with an annual report detailing their business activities in the state. Presley said that the businesses were not […]

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RANT: Presley’s Union County Task Force, some hope at last

People in New Albany and Union County have long suffered over-priced and under-performing internet and cell phone service. Now they have an opportunity to start doing something about it. Mississippi Public Service Commission Chairman Brandon Presley will host a meeting focused on solutions to those problems at Union County Courthouse at 7 p.m., tomorrow, Thursday, […]

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Sports betting now legal in Mississippi casinos

Last week Mississippi became only the fourth state in the country to allow legalized betting on both amateur and professional sports in its casinos. Only Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware were faster than Mississippi. It is rare that the Mississippi State Legislature is ahead of the rest of the country in passing any type of […]

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Girl Scouts and student volunteers work at NAES Clothes Closet

Girl Scout Troop 23016 members Lilly Shannon, Gina Grace Lesley, and Lauren Hobson, along with student volunteers Cade Pipkin, Morgan Pipkin, and Ella McClain, helped sort clothes and assisted customers during the recent New Albany Elementary School Clothes Closet Parent Event where parents and their children were able to pick out clothes for the upcoming […]

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School bus safety is a community-wide responsibilty

Yellow school buses are the largest system of mass transportation in the country and is the safest form of transportation to and from school for children and youth. Bus safety concerns of the New Albany School District New Albany School District (NASD) will have twenty-seven routes traveling approximately 1,200 miles and carrying about 1,300 students […]

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Cool: Michael Brose Trio at Biscuits & Jam Market

Jazz lovers got a rare treat at the Biscuits & Jam Farmer’s Market in downtown New Albany, Thursday afternoon, August 2. The Michael Brose Trio played jazz standards while people shopped for tomatoes and cucumbers. More people than usual actually sat and listened to the music. All three musicians are from north Mississippi. Michael Brose, […]

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