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The Union County Republican Women (UCRW) held their monthly meeting on April 25 with Senator Nickey Browning, Representatives Steve Massengill and Margaret Ellis Rogers providing a legislative update. The UCRW will meet again on May 23 with guest speakers Mississippi Supreme Court Justice James D. Maxwell and Hunter Foster of the Mississippi Federation of College […]
Bluesman Sam Mosley of New Albany visited with visual and performing arts students at New Albany High School Thursday morning, April 28th. He sang and played his Gibson electric guitar and talked about music and the development of the blues genre with groups of students for about two hours. NAHS Teachers Mary Beth Muncie and […]
Former Mayor Walter Johnson receiving the UCDA Citizen of the Year Award Monday night reminded me of some pictures of him I took a number of years ago, and I went searching for them. I have always liked these shots and do not believe any of them have been published previously. They were taken one afternoon nine years ago, […]
Exhibits of visual, performance and musical art by gifted students created a temporary gallery Tuesday night, April 26th, in the New Albany Middle School Cafeteria. More than two hundred people enjoyed the “Evening With The Arts” event, 5 – 7 p.m. Refreshments were served as visitors looked at the visual arts displays and heard performances by Chorus, Band […]
The Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi’s RAT® (Reject All Tobacco) program and the Mississippi Tobacco-Free Coalition of Union, Marshall and Benton recently awarded Leslie Garcia, a 5th grader at New Albany Elementary School, as the 4th-6th grade Runner Up Winner of the 2016 RAT 4-6 Calendar Design Contest. The 2016 RAT Calendar Design Contest was […]
ACTIONS IN THE HOUSE Kelly Legislation Passes the House On Tuesday, the House passed H.R. 4332, the Maximizing Small Business Competition Act, which is the first bill I introduced in Congress. The goal of this legislation is to level the playing field and ensure small businesses have the tools they need to navigate and compete […]
As May is Preservation Month, it is fitting that the Architecture of New Albany and the Importance of Preservation is the topic of this year’s Annual Meeting of the Union County Historical Society set May 6, noon at the First United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall. Jim Woodrick, Historic Preservation Division Director with Mississippi Department of […]
NEW ALBANY, MISS., April 26, 2016 – Carly Wilbanks of New Albany, MS, has been named the director of the New Albany Main Street Association. The New Albany Main Street Association was designated a Mississippi Main Street Community in 1997. The Mississippi Main Street Association focuses on economic development and revitalization of Mississippi’s historic business […]
The Union County Development Association (UCDA) held its annual membership banquet Monday evening, April 25th, at the New Albany Middle School cafeteria. About 200 members and guests attended the UCDA’s annual banquet. Featured speaker for the event was Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, a Republican in his third term in that office. Hosemann spoke about […]
Only about 820 people attended a Friday, April 21st, students’ concert that had social media, Sunday school conversations and phone lines buzzing through the weekend in New Albany. The lucky few were 720 New Albany public school students and approximately a hundred adults who were in the New Albany High School auditorium Friday afternoon. The […]
Daniel Bullock, a 6th grade student at New Albany Middle School and winner of the NAMS Geography bee, participated in the Mississippi National Geographic Bee on April 1 in Jackson, MS. The top participants from the New Albany Middle School Geography Bee are as follows (l-r): Jonathan Pegues, 8th grade, 3rd place; Ethan Jackson, 6th grade, 2nd place; Daniel […]
More than 720 New Albany School students in second through fifth grades performed Friday afternoon with the North Mississippi Symphony Orchestra. The performance at the New Albany High School Auditorium was the first time New Albany students had an opportunity to play music with a full symphony orchestra. The Carnegie Foundations of New York’s […]
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