Entries by NEMiss.News

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New Albany Schools’ grant supports before & after school opportunities

The New Albany School District has been awarded continued funding through the Title IV, Part B, 21st Century Community Learning Centers (CCLC) grant from the Mississippi Department of Education.  This is a five-year grant that will support expanded before-school and after-school activities, parent engagement opportunities, and summer enrichment programming at New Albany Elementary School, New […]

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NAHS students hear about engineering at “Brown Bag Luncheon”

New Albany High School hosted its monthly Brown Bag Luncheon on Wednesday, October 21. Each month NAHS will host a brown bag lunch with area career and industry leaders.  Each month speakers representing different careers will speak to students who are specifically interested in pursuing a career in that area. The second brown bag lunch […]

Talmadge Littlejohn remembered by friends and colleagues

Nearing the end of his third term as a Chancery Court Judge, Talmadge Littlejohn died unexpectedly Monday night in New Albany, after a brief illness. He had celebrated his 80th birthday only a few days earlier, and had presided over a session in his court earlier on the day he died. Littlejohn’s career as an […]

Initiative 42 vs. 42A: Mississippi education loses either way

Two competing “ballot initiatives” regarding education funding are the ballot items getting the most attention in the dwindling days before the November 3rd general election. The races for governor, lieutenant-governor, secretary of state, etc. feature well-known, well-financed incumbents against unknown challengers, who have no money and no way of getting any. The big money — hundreds […]

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NAES Bullpup Pride Award winners for October 19, 2015

The following students at New Albany Elementary School received the Bullpup Pride Recognition Award because of their positive behavior during the week of October 19.                 Pictured in no particular order are:  Gabe Spencer, Morgan Pipkin, Lauren Denton, Mitchell Robbins, Quvae Collins, Alaina Butler, Ethan Smithey, Trevor Thomasson, […]

New Albany’s Pennebaker and Stewart cited during I-22 ceremony

The major roles of two New Albany residents in building and improving Mississippi highways were cited during the Friday morning naming ceremony for Interstate 22. About 125 people including state and federal officials gathered under a white tent a few hundred feet from the highway as Highway 78 became I-22. Both Northern District Transportation Commissioner […]

Alert citizens assist in quick apprehension of bank robber

A man held up the Renasant Bank at Coulter Road and Highway 30 at around 2 p.m. Friday, but was in police custody only minutes later. New Albany Police Chief Chris Robertson said the robber walked into the bank and handed a teller a note demanding money. The teller complied, and the man left the […]

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NAES first graders learn about potential careers

On Thursday, October 22, first grade students from New Albany Elementary School visited the New Albany School of Career & Technical Education.  These first graders have been studying about community helpers and careers.  This field trip provided an opportunity for them to gain more awareness about potential careers by rotating through eleven career stations.  Students […]

How Union Co. Schools got MS’s only rural schools’ theater program

For seven or eight weeks every fall, from four different directions, dozens of high school students come to New Albany four or more days each week. They come from four school campuses, scattered over the far reaches of Union County, to spend two to four hours rehearsing for a musical theater production. Students provide their […]

I-22 is New Albany’s route to a prosperous future–UPDATED 10/23

UPDATE: 6:45PM 10-23-2015   On June 29, 1956, President Eisenhower signed the Federal Aid-Highway Act of 1956, which authorized the interstate highway system (later formally named the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways). The Act authorized 41,000 miles of high quality highways that were to tie the nation together. Later, congressional action […]

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Career & Tech School names outstanding students

The following students have been selected as Outstanding Career & Technical Education students for the first nine weeks at the New Albany School of Career & Technical Education:       Picture 1: Michelle Luo, STEM; Tashiunna Judon, Early Childhood II; Amanda Keierleber, Marketing; Mary Day, Oral Communications; Ethan Wilson, Agricultural Animals; Alex Austin, Agricultural […]