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The Future Business Leaders of America Northern District Conference was held Friday, February 27, 2015, at Northeast Community College in Booneville, MS. Students from the New Albany School of Career and Technical Education competed in a variety of areas from Public Speaking to Entrepreneurship. The following students were recognized as winners at the district level. […]
New Albany High School students Tristan Estrada and Lori Staten competed in the Jackson Catholic Forensic Leaque’s district competition on February 21. Both students qualified for nationals which will be held in Fort Lauderdale in May. Tristan placed 2nd in Congressional Debate and Lori placed 4th in Dramatic Performance.
The huge gantry crane erected by contractor Barnhart Crane and Rigging was complete and put to work Wednesday in downtown Tupelo. The heavy-lift machine is loading electric generating equipment from the former Enron power plant in eastern Union County onto flat rail cars for shipment to Texas. The tan building at right center of photo is the […]
Students Bolster their Brainpower with School Breakfast New Albany Elementary School Celebrates National School Breakfast Week Children who eat breakfast at school start the day ready to learn—reflected in higher test scores and better classroom behavior. However, only half of the children who eat lunch at school also eat school breakfast, according to the Food […]
A large scale operation to remove turbines and other equipment from a never-completed electric power plant in rural Union County is underway. Large cranes and other heavy equipment are at work in downtown New Albany and at the abandoned plant site on County Road 126 in eastern Union County. A supervisor for the contractor removing the equipment told nanewsweb.com […]
Dead 53 years and born 118 years ago, William Faulkner is second only to Elvis when it comes to famous Mississippians. But in New Albany Faulkner still ranks as the undisputed number one favorite son; no close seconds. New Albany has drawn unknown thousands of visitors over the last half century who come […]
The sun came out Thursday afternoon, March 12, just in time for the ribbon-cutting event that commenced the grand opening of New Albany’s newest hospitality business, Vintage Market, at 127 West Bankhead. Owner Sandra Wilson and her partner Donald Poitras served refreshments to well-wishers throughout the afternoon. Boasting the only honest-to-gosh soda fountain in New Albany, […]
Enough land to create more than three additional miles of bicycling and hiking trails within the city has been offered as a donation from a private land owner. The proposed land donation would create a corridor over three miles long, averaging about 30 feet in width, and would connect hotel and restaurant properties on Highway 30 and subdivisions west […]
Weather contrasts are rarely so sharp as they were for the first week of March. With the first day of spring still two weeks off, and a bitter winter storm only two days past, it was a perfect sunny Saturday in New Albany. Forty-eight hours earlier most of Union County was paralyzed with ice an inch or more thick on streets and […]
Old Man Winter showed what is possibly the most treacherous side of his face last night, when freezing rain, sleet and gusting winds produced a heavy coating of ice throughout the New Albany area. Though I personally observed the technique of several drivers who should have stayed at home, New Albany Police Chief Chris Robertson […]
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 […]
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 […]
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