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Levitt AMP New Albany concert series debuts in threatening weather

New Albany, Mississippi-Although it had rained much of the day and rain clouds threatened throughout the evening, an estimated 500 people attended the first Levitt AMP Concert Saturday night. While many listened from their cars in the early part of the show, most ventured out when the headliner act, Alvin Youngblood Hart’s Muscle Theory, took […]

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Biscuits & Jam Market kicks off the 2016 season

One of Mississippi’s top markets, the Union County Master Gardeners’ Biscuits & Jam Farmers’ Market kicked off a new season this morning on the banks of the Little Tallahatchie River in New Albany. The weather was not 100% cooperative, but we all know that a little rain cannot dampen the enthusiasm of farmers, gardeners or […]

Memorial Day thoughts about coins on gravestones

Memorials and remembrances are very personal things. My father has been dead for over twenty years.  I still miss him–sometimes acutely, such as whenever a children’s choir is singing or at Christmas or whenever I drive past what looks to be the “perfect” fishing lake. My husband also loved my father, which is one of […]

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Union Co. Republican Women’s club meeting, May 23rd

Mississippi Supreme Court Justice James Maxwell spoke to the Union County Republican Women’s club monthly meeting on May 23. Judge Maxwell presented an overview of the court system in Mississippi and took questions from the group. Also speaking was Hunter Foster a student at Mississippi College and chairman of the Mississippi Federation of College Republicans. […]

New Albany drug round-up takes 26 people into custody

New Albany, Mississippi- NAnewsweb.com received the following information from Chris Robertson, New Albany’s Chief of Police at 2:30 PM on May 24, 2016, about people taken into custody in a drug round-up. Chief Robinson states: “These are the 26 people we have arrested, along with their charges, and bond amounts. This is a  part of […]

David Masters opinion: “Look to the important things in life.”

New Albany, Mississippi– The rules and regulations and positively inane and asinine “good intentions” and the abject results of bureaucratic entities are unlimited, nor produce any fine results or any remorse or any concerns about any of the frustrations and positively hurtful outcomes caused by insensible and irresponsible people and governments. Out of Confucianism  in […]

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Down From the Hills Heritage Music Festival, 2016

New Albany, Mississippi– On Saturday, May 21st, the 15th annual Down From the Hills Heritage Music Festival was held at the Union County Fairgrounds, where the air was full of the sounds of musicians of all ages as well as the aromas of kettle corn and smoking meat. Bluegrass fans from around the New Albany area […]