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William Cuthbert Faulkner, winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born 120 years ago today, Sept. 25, 1897, in New Albany. Falkner’s great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, a Confederate Civil War officer, a lawyer and a businessman, had helped found a railroad in the 1870s. Murry Falkner, the writer’s father, worked in New Albany […]
Firefighters responded to reports of a fire at a convenience store’s barbecue mobile food truck trailer. The fire, on HWY 15 south at midday Friday, could have been much worse than the actual end results. Mississippi Highway Patrol (MHP) officers reported the fire to dispatchers who, in turn, dispatched New Albany Fire units. MHP officers’ […]
Union County Emergency Responders are introduced to the National Traffic Incident Management Responder Training Program issued by Congress, which authorized the SHRP 2 (second Strategic Highway Research Program) in 2005. SHRP 2 is designed to investigate the underlying causes of highway crashes and congestion in a short-term program of focused research for safety, reliability, renewal, […]
Union County Theater Program students are rehearsing “Cinderella,” a modern musical comedy version of a 2,000 year-old love story. They will perform it next month on the stage of the Cine Theater in New Albany’s Magnolia Civic Center. The earliest known version of the Cinderella story was recorded a few years before the birth of […]
The opening of the fourth annual Faulkner and Folk Art Exhibit will be Friday, September 22, 5 – 7 PM, at the Union County Heritage Museum, 114 Cleveland Street in New Albany. This year’s featured book – art challenge is William Faulkner’s The Big Woods. Artists from across the south have created pieces based either […]
The next installment of our B2B Luncheon Series, sponsored by Toyota Motor Manufacturing Mississippi, is scheduled for Thursday, September 21, 2017, in the Magnolia Room of the Magnolia Civic Center. The program, provided by Mr. Alan Greer and Bancorpsouth, will feature Mr. Jerome Gentry, business development officer and publisher with LiftFund, a non-profit organization headquartered in […]
After months of tedious budget approval work and a sometimes contentious debate, New Albany aldermen approved a budget which increases spending in the coming fiscal year by $44,237. The New Albany Board of Aldermen approved the FY 2017-18 budget in a public meeting Thursday evening, Sept. 14, 2017. State law requires that municipal budgets be […]
Thousands of people from across the region are expected to visit New Albany for this year’s annual Tallahatchie Riverfest, on October 6 and 7th. While the influx of visitors is good news for New Albany’s economy, the growth in the crowds has presented its own set of challenges. The festival, now in its twenty-first year, […]
An autopsy was performed last week in Jackson on the body of Fred Nugent, age 56, who died after a gun battle near Myrtle, Friday, Sept. 1. Union County Sheriff Jimmy Edwards told NAnewsweb.com on Wednesday, September 13th, that the autopsy report had not yet been received from the State of Mississippi Crime Laboratory. The […]
Students at New Albany High School had to the opportunity to learn more abouton Wednesday, September 13 during Vision time. The speakers were Shane Sanford, Assistant AD for Broadcast Services, Ole Miss; David Dillard, Owner of Total Production Services, LLC; and Marks Mann, Show Producer, Ole Miss. Students watched video clips that had been produced […]
New Albany Elementary School students are learning about what it means to be part of a neighborhood. Pre-K students at New Albany Elementary School are collecting non-perishable food items to help students and families in need. The food drive is part of teaching young students the importance of helping others in the community. Pre-K teachers […]
New Albany Police Chief, Chris Robertson, gave this information to NAnewsweb for release on Thursday, September 14, 2017. The information relates to a story released Wednesday regarding a local search for a missing man from Collierville, TN: “After talking with family members and investigators from the Collierville police department early Wednesday afternoon, we determined that […]
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