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Who designed the American flag? On Saturday, June 14, 1777, Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the first official national flag of the United States. According to popular legend, the first American flag was made by Betsy Ross, a Philadelphia seamstress who was acquainted with George Washington, leader of the Continental Army, and other […]
The threat of rain and certainty of heat led organizers of this new festival to make some changes in its production. The festival, which includes local and state candidates stumping during the day and music and fireworks at night, was to take place on the courthouse lawn, but has now been moved to two locations: […]
Work to replace a bridge that carries Oxford Road across a small stream bed near Bankhead Street (Highway 178) began Monday, June 22nd. This particular segment of Oxford Road, about a half-mile long, runs east to west from Bankhead Street, behind Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union County, and connects to Coulter Drive. The work started with Paul […]
Museum Madness is headed Full STEAM Ahead, for the 2015 summer discovery activity program for children. This year’s activities are focused on Science, Technology, Engineering, Art & Mathematics. Dates for this year week of activities will be July 13 – July 17, 9 a.m. –12 noon. Application are being taken now. “We are excited about […]
Students in the 6th Grade Social Studies classes of Lori Moody, Brad Gray, and Larry Ashmore at New Albany Middle School read the Theodore Boone Kid Lawyer by John Grisham during the month of May. These students had the additional opportunity to learn about careers in law and learn from guest speakers. Mrs. Laura Fennell, […]
Some guessed as high as seven or eight inches, but nobody seemed to know for certain how much it rained Friday night, June 19, 2015, in New Albany. Most home rain gauges only hold five inches of water, and many of them were overflowing. A dramatic storm with pounding rain and strong, confused winds and […]
A new group of 21st century-focused educators from several of America’s most innovative and successful schools and districts have a new support network to share and learn from in preparing their students for life and rewarding and self-sustaining lifelong careers. Doing so is important for our students and also for American industry and society as […]
New Albany, MS – The sun was bright and the temperature stood at 86F degrees at an announcement and ground-breaking ceremony Wednesday morning, June 17, for a major new residential development in New Albany. Thirty people gathered to hear Terry R. Young, President of TRY Properties, describe what will be the most extensively planned, quality […]
MISSISSIPPI STATE, MS— Local schools from the New Albany School District have been recognized at the statewide conference of the Program of Research and Evaluation of Public Schools (PREPS) for being named as a Value Added School. Over 1,000 Mississippi schools’ assessment results were recorded on the Mississippi Statewide Accountability System for 2013-2014. The PREPS […]
Have you heard of Mississippi’s Literacy-Based Promotion Act? No? Well, maybe you know it as 3rd grade Reading Gate? If you are like most Mississippians, you know very little about this law. Beyond the fact that third graders not scoring satisfactorily on the year-end reading exam will not pass to the fourth grade, most people […]
Union County Theater Boosters Presents… Miss Freedom Fest Pageant When: June 25, 2015 at 6:00 pm Where: The Cine Theater New Albany, MS Age Divisions (based on age as of pageant date): Entry fee is $30 in advance and $35 at the door Admission is $5 per person at the door Baby Mr. Freedom Fest: […]
A Mississippi highway patrolman happened to be in the right place at just the right time on Thursday, June 4, 2015. That place was Lowe’s in New Albany. Around 1:00 p.m. a group of four men and two women of Asian descent were attempting to check out, making gift card purchases with what was apparently […]
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