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Today's Features

  • New Albany High School has announced that Karl Capaning and Jennie Katherine Ellis are the Class of 2009’s Valedictorian and Salutatorian respectively.

    Capaning, son of Edgar and Ninabeth Capaning, and brother to Lianne Capaning, is the Valedictorian with a 4.0 grade point average.  Karl says he plans to begin a pursuit of a major in Accounting at Mississippi State University next fall and, after receiving his degree, attending law school.

  • New Albany native Sgt. Samantha Summers is serving her country and Union County overseas this holiday season at Camp Liberty in Baghdad. She is the treatment noncommissioned officer in charge of the brigade’s medical operations team. Summers serves with the 926th Engineer Brigade, Multi-National Division. She also serves as one of the 926th Engineer Brigade’s personal security detachment medics.

  • New Albany’s own singing group from the 1960s, “The Dukes,”will be performing again in New Albany on January 24, 2009 at 7 p.m. at the Magnolia Civic Center in downtown New Albany.  This concert is a fundraiser for the New Albany Main Street Association.  The proceeds will be used to fund community projects in 2009. 

  • Fifth grade students at Ingomar Attendance Center from Ms. Sprouse and Ms. Jackson’s classes recently completed a 10-week D. A. R. E. program. D. A. R. E. stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education. This program provides students with information and skills that they need to live drug and violence-free lives. A graduation ceremony was held on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at the school auditorium.

  • Sixty-one fifth grade students at East Union Attendance Center from Mrs. Amber Elder’s class, Mrs. Pamela Warrington’s homeroom class, and Mrs. Amy Lavanway’s class recently completed the 10-week D. A. R. E. program. D.A.R.E. stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education. This program provides students with information and skills that they need to live drug and violence-free lives. A graduation ceremony was held Thursday, January 29, 2009 at the school gymnasium.

  • While he never planned on going into the education field, Dr. James Bryson certainly made a career of it, with more than 30 years of public education under his belt in both the New Albany and Union County School Districts.

    “My dream was to be an electrical engineer,” Bryson said, thinking back to his high school days in the early 1950's. 

  • It’s time again to start bird watching and counting the birds at your bird feeders. February 13-16, 2009 marks the 12th annual Great Backyard Bird Count, which is hosted by the National Audubon Society and Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

    Kate Friedman, environmental education coordinator for the Strawberry Plains Audubon Center, came out to New Albany Elementary School February 4, 2009 to speak to third graders about the importance of bird watching and bird counting.

  • Love is in the air, and it is also on exhibit at the Union County Heritage Museum. Vintage Endearments From Your Valentine exhibit at the Union County Heritage Museum offers an array of vintage valentine cards from the late 1800s to the mid 1930s with Union County connections. 

  • Bowling fun was had by all when the clients from New Haven School visited the Action Lanes bowling alley in New Albany on Wednesday, February 11, 2009. Action Lanes allows the clients to come bowling twice a month.

    In addition to bowling, they also participate in Tai Chi, going out to eat once a month, walking on the track at the Baptist Healthplex, and visiting the Union County Library and the Union County Heritage Museum.

  • “Fight cancer! Stamp it out!” were words being shouted by elementary students last Wednesday at Ingomar Attendance Center in honor of the newly created victory garden.

    The school created a victory garden in front of the school’s sign in honor of loved ones that have either died as a result of cancer or survived cancer. Colt Doom, Donna Cobb and Janet Jennings had recently lost their father Arnold Doom to cancer. Doom was a resident of the Martintown community.

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