Entries by NEMiss.News

Legislative Appropriation May Make Permanent Amphitheater Possible

The Mississippi legislature has appropriated money for a $175,000 grant to the City of New Albany for improvements in recreational facilities. State Representative Margaret Rogers said that the state budget item she proposed had passed both houses and gone to the governor for his signature, City of New Albany Marketing Director Sean Johnson asked Rogers to […]

New Albany Tourism Partners with Legends Magazine for new Visitors Guide

NEW ALBANY, MS – Tourism officials in New Albany are teaming up with LEGENDS magazine, an award-winning travel and tourism statewide magazine to produce an official tourism guide for the city. The new guide, titled “Get to Know New Albany”, will be published twice yearly and be distributed at the state’s visitor’s centers, kiosks along […]

People in the Spotlight

Posted 4-2015                                       POSTED 5/2015                                   Posted 6-2015         Posted 8-2015     Posted September 2015     […]

Schools in the Spotlight 2015

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New Albany’s TV99 Changes Ownership

NEW ALBANY, MS – Proteus Media is proud to announce its recent purchase of TV99, New Albany’s community television station. Broadcasting on Channel 99 on the MaxxSouth Broadband system (formerly Metrocast), TV99 serves New Albany and Union County, Prentiss County, portions of Lee County, and Marshall County.   “Charley Kyles and Ruth Callicutt have done a […]

Northern District PSC Commissioner Brandon Presley hosts Town Meeting in New Albany

About 90 people participated in Northern District Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley’s Town Hall meeting Thursday evening, March 26, at the Union  County Courthouse. Presley spoke for about 20 minutes about the issues the commission deals with and how he and his staff work to improve service for consumers. He discussed inferior cell telephone service, poor Internet […]

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New Albany Middle School Students Visit Northeast Community College

Students in the 21st Century Community Learning Center After-School Program at New Albany Middle School visited the Northeast Mississippi Community College-New Albany Branch on Monday, March 2.  David Goode, Director of the New Albany Branch and Louis Sacran, Counselor from the Booneville Campus presented a Dropout Prevention program to the students. Topics of the presentation […]

New Albany to Bring Back an Expanded Freedom Fest Celebration

NEW ALBANY, MS – New Albany will have a new event this summer with the reintroduction of the New Albany Freedom Fest which will be held at Park Along the River in Downtown New Albany on Saturday, June 27th. After a hiatus of a couple of years, New Albany Tourism and other community groups like […]

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NAHS Names Star Student and Star Teacher

Kristen Olson has been named as a STAR (Student-Teacher Achievement Recognition) Student for the 2014-2015 school year by the Mississippi Economic Council’s M. B. Swayze Educational Foundation, sponsor of the STAR program. The New Albany High School senior will be honored during the annual Education Celebration on April 30 at the Jackson Convention Center in […]

New Albany Revamps Down from the Hills Bluegrass Festival

NEW ALBANY, MS – Changes are in store for the city’s Down from the Hills Bluegrass Festival and Mississippi Bluegrass championships this year. The festival is scheduled for May 22nd and 23rd, 2015 For more than a decade, bluegrass musicians and fans from around the southeast have been coming to New Albany to play traditional […]

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NA Career & Technical Students in State Competition

The TSA (Technology Student Association) State Competition was held in Jackson, MS on March 16-18.  Pictured l-r are students from the New Albany School of Career & Technical Education that attended the competition: Wesley Massey, Clay Hicks, Anslie Childers, Anna Kat Tate, Ellie Clark, Destin Bryant, Nick Isbell, Alex Bryant, Seth Devaughn, Chris Thomas, & Joseph […]