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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 […]
A home at the southwest corner of Reeves and Glade streets in New Albany is the recipient the New Albany Residential Beautification Award for the fall quarter. The house was acquired and renovated by Ryan and Adrianna Brooks in April, 2019. They live in the home with their three children – triplets, two boys […]
If you have gotten married, needed a passport, registered to vote, voted absentee or had busy with the circuit court system here in the past two decades, you may know Linda Wells. She has served as deputy circuit clerk for more than 21 years but retired this past Friday. “I actually worked for Thomas Stanford […]
The Union County Board of Supervisors Monday approved a $2.2 million project they hope will finish off bridge repair and replacement that has taken county officials’ attention for decades. Supervisors received bids for two new bridges to be constructed on County Road 46 in the Tallahatchie River bottom between Enterprise and Pinedale. This is a […]
Local officials have learned that the franchise holder for the New Albany Pizza Hut has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. This could mean closing the restaurant. The company is NPC International, which is said to be the largest franchise holder for Pizza Hut and Wendy’s restaurants in the country. According to trade publication stories, the […]
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