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Main power circuit repaired quickly during sleet storm

 At 2 o’clock Thursday morning, March 5, during a storm of freezing rain, sleet and gusty winds, a tree fell on a power line near Stokes Grocery, breaking a line of the main power circuit serving much of northeast New Albany. Hundreds of customers were without electricity.     A line crew from New Albany Lights, Gas and Water (LGW) arrived at […]

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NA Students Compete in Skills USA Regional Competition

New Albany Career and Technical students competed in the Skills USA regional competition in Senatobia MS on February 10, 2015.  Pictured (front) Quiana Scott, 2nd place-Cabinetry; Standing l-r:  Kylin Beaty & Brandon Holt, 1st Place Team-Masonry; Austin Turner, Automotive Service; Chance Betts, 2nd Place-Technical Drafting;   Michael Blankenship, 2nd Place-Architectural Drafting.  Those who placed will compete […]

Winter Falls into Union County

New Albany finally got some of the winter weather that had been predicted for several days when heavy snow started falling Wednesday afternoon, February 25, 2015. Three to four inches of snow had accumulated by 6 p.m., and relatively little snow fell in Union County after that time. The National Weather Service radar sweeps showed that most […]

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BullPup Awards, February 17, 2015

The following students at New Albany Elementary School received the Bullpup Pride Recognition Award because of their positive behavior during the week of February 17.  Pictured in no particular order are:  Cieara Earl, Tiffany Hall, Lauren Hobson, Jessie Nicholson, Caroline Speck, Katie Evans, Rylie Ozbirn, Conner Greer, Bryan Betancourt, Sophie Chen, Rebecca Coltharp, Mackenzie Fooshee, […]

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Bullpup Pride Recognition Awards February 9, 2015

  Landon Russel, Jackie Guerrero, Kiara Bailey, Delilah Roberts, Bethany Robinson, Victoria Rutherford, Mickey Woods, Tiffany Hall, Emmanuel Chevez, Aleigha Knox, Trinity Zihlman, Anyha Foster, Kaleigh Frazier, Coraima Tellez, Kevin Hernandez, Nayeli Pech, Caralina Treadaway, Kara Morrisson, Jesus Padraza, Ashlynn Lessard, Chris Hale, Jamie Shorter, Addi Vetovitz, Jayla Ingram, Lucy King, Brooke Johnson, Christian Fonseca, […]

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2015 New Albany Home & Garden Show Announced

NATIONAL SPEAKERS & ANTIQUE TRACTOR SHOW TO HEADLINE NEW ALBANY HOME & GARDEN SHOW, APRIL 10 – 11, NEW ALBANY   The Union County Master Gardeners are getting ready for the seventh annual home & garden show, to be held at the Union County Fairgrounds, on April 10th and 11th.  This year’s theme will be […]

Mississippi Burned, Again

Webmaster’s note, February 2015:  The story below was published in the fall of 2014 by the non-profit Kaiser Family Foundation. It was republished in this abbreviated form by The Atlantic and by Poltico, but, as far as we know,  nanewsweb.com is the first Mississippi news organization to run it. To our knowledge, no Mississippi print […]

Current Qualifiers for August 2015 Primary

The office of Union County Circuit Clerk Phyllis Stanford has furnished nanewsweb.com with the following list of candidates who have qualified to run for Union County offices in the Mississippi primary election, to be held August 4, 2015. CIRCUIT CLERK DEMOCRAT Phyllis Stanford CHANCERY CLERK DEMOCRAT Andrea Laher Herring REPUBLICAN Annette M. Hickey TAX ASSESSOR/COLLECTOR […]

City Board of Aldermen Meeting, February 2015

Police Department personnel matters and condemnation and demolition of dilapidated houses were among the matters discussed during the Tuesday evening meeting of the New Albany Board of Aldermen. During the February 3rd meeting at city hall Police Chief Chris Robertson and Fire Chief Steve Coker told the board they had been discussing the feasibility of the two […]

Tanglefoot Trail: A Quick Tour

In October of 2013, the Tanglefoot Trail, Mississippi’s longest rail-trail, celebrated its official opening with ceremonies at the trail head in New Albany, Mississippi. The trail winds peacefully through 44.5 miles of the Appalachian Mountains foothills of Northeast Mississippi along the former corridor of Col. William C Falkner’s Gulf and Ship Island Railroad. From its […]

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Men and Their Toys

Chancery Court Judge Talmadge Littlejohn and his grandson Gray took a close look at a railroad locomotive in downtown New Albany on a pleasant day in late January, 2015. Railroads have played an important part in the history and development of New Albany. The tracks of the BNSF Railroad and the Ripley and New Albany […]

Share Your Historical Articles with the Community

Readers are encouraged to submit historical documents to share with the community to news@nanewsweb.com Historical pictures of New Albany, Union County Historical pictures of your family Newspaper or magazine articles of special interest to you or the community and more Send us any family news you would like to share with the community: to news@nanewsweb.com. […]