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New Albany High School ACT 30+ Club gains three new members

New Albany High School recently presented ACT 30+ Club t-shirts to (l-r) Carley Jumper, Joseph Rutherford, & Taylor Willis for their recent success on the ACT.   Students who have a composite or subscore of 30 or more on their recent ACT are inducted into the club.                     Melanie Shannon Public Relations New Albany Schools

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Brown water: The cost of doing nothing will only get higher

Did we jinx NALGW? A little after midnight, early Tuesday morning October 10th, we posted a “Rant,” which lauded the work of New Albany Lights, Gas and Water (NALGW). We heaped special praise on the improvements in electrical service since Bill Mattox became the local utility’s manager seven years ago. About eight hours after we […]

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October Museum Moments to hear Faulkner biographer

Museum Moments will feature Dr. Robert Hamblin, writer and teacher,  on Thursday, October 19, at noon at  Union County Heritage Museum in New Albany talking about the latest biography on William Faulkner, Myself and the World Hamblin, a north Mississippi native, has spent a career working with the Brodsky Collection, the premier collection of the life and work  of […]

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Ten NAES students win gift cards for perfect attendance during September

A gift card drawing was held for New Albany Elementary students who had weekly perfect attendance for the month of September. Students receiving the Walmart gift cards from Principal Jamey Wright were, in no particular order, Collins Young, Jaycee Reed, Emiliano Contreras, Leslie Castelan, Cade Pipkin, Bryson Heaton, Delvonta Crayton, Jackson Howard, Morgan Pierce, and […]

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Maybe we can just pretend it’s tea…

It helps to pretend it’s tea. If you live in New Albany, you’ve had that sinking feeling when you turn on the tap and what you see pouring out does not remotely resemble potable water.  We at NAnewsweb.com had a really bad day of it on this past May 12th. Knowing that this was a […]

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What’s been happening at New Albany Elementary School?

9-22 President Connie Kelly (pictured back row center) and Historian Becky Wack (pictured back row left) from the New Albany American Legion Auxillary Unit #72 presented a donation to Susan Kelly’s Special Needs classroom at New Albany Elementary School on Thursday, September 14. The donation will be used to purchase an iPad for classroom use. […]

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Junior Aldermen program gets underway at New Albany High School

The Junior Aldermen program is a brand new organization for New Albany High School Junior and Seniors. Twenty members were selected to represent the wards in New Albany. Interested students submitted essays, which were used in the selection of members for the program. Our first meeting was last night (October 10th). Keith Conlee, Alderman at […]

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PSC Chairman Presley calls for victim’s right to sue for telemarketing calls

Presley requests amendments be made to the current No-Call Law Jackson, Mississippi (October 10, 2017) – Public Service Commission Chairman Brandon Presley is tired of seeing predatory telemarketers escape punishment through loopholes in the law and abuse of the Caller ID technology; he plans to change that. This week, Presley instructed the PSC’s legal staff […]

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Flashlights and brown water, solving problems in New Albany

“You don’t have flashlights? You must be new here.” It was a late summer day in 2000. We were, indeed, new to New Albany, and our daughter was newly enrolled in the city schools. We’d arrived early at the high school auditorium, with perhaps 50 other sets of parents, for a band concert. Without so […]

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