Entries by NEMiss.News

Baptist Union County introduces life-saving telehealth medicine

Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union County is part of a growing trend that is changing the basic idea of care delivery through the addition of telehealth services. A new field of medicine, telehealth offers innovative, life-saving practices for intensive care unit patients, stroke patients and patients fighting infectious disease. Each individual technology under the telehealth medicine umbrella […]

,

Darryl Patton to present Southern Herbals Lecture at Museum

Well known herbalist Darryl Patton will hold a morning plant walk starting 9:30, (weather permitting), a museum lecture at noon and medicinal plant beginner workshop at 1:30 at museum. Cost is $25 for walk/ workshop. Noon lecture is free. Light lunch is provided Preregistration and payment needed for workshop. Call 662-538-0014 or email jill@ucheritagemuseum.com. Bring […]

,

New Albany Schools join the MS Dept of Education Innovation Lab Network

JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) has launched the Mississippi Innovation Lab Network (MS-ILN) that encourages a network of A- and B-rated school districts to work together to identify, test, and implement student-centered approaches to learning that will be shared statewide to help transform education in Mississippi. The student-centered approaches to learning […]

Area Firefighters take airport emergency training class

Firefighters from the area gathered to learn how to handle local aircraft emergencies this past week. This twelve hour class is offered through the Mississippi State Fire Academy, and was instructed by Academy Adjunct Instructor and New Albany Deputy Fire Chief Mark Whiteside. “The purpose of this class is to introduce local firefighters how to […]

RANT: Doing public business in secret meetings

Too much public business in New Albany is conducted in secret meetings. Invariably, the final item listed on every agenda of the New Albany Board of Aldermen is “Executive Session.” It’s routine, always there, like approving minutes of prior meetings or paying the city’s routine bills. It is the regular practice of the city board […]

,

UCDA changes Annual Meeting date, announces speaker

The date for the Annual Meeting of the Membership of the Union County Development Association has changed!! The meeting will take place on Monday evening, April 30, 2018, at 6:30p.m. in the cafeteria of the New Albany Middle School. In addition to a brief business meeting, awards will be presented to the Business of the […]