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Today's Features

  • NAHS student to attend MS School of the Arts

    New Albany High School sophomore Crystal McKee will soon get a change of scenery this fall when she starts her classes at Mississippi School of the Arts (MSA) in Brookhaven.

    McKee said that she is extremely happy and excited to learn new tools and concepts pertaining to visual arts.

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  • Hickory Flat names Steele, Bailey as top two Seniors

    Hickory Flat Attendance Center has announced its Class of 2009 Valedictorian and Salutatorian - Robert Lee Steele, IV and Erica Nichole Bailey, respectively.

    Steele, IV, a Hickory Flat native, has been named Hickory Flat Attendance Center’s class valedictorian for the 2008-2009 school year.

    He has a 4.0 Grade Point Average and plans to attend Itawamba Community College starting in the fall semester, but he is undecided about his major.

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  • Former N. A. resident debuts her first album Divine Favor

    Former New Albany resident Michele Mundy recently produced, wrote and performed her debut album Divine Favor. The 34-year-old has been interested in music almost her whole life.

    “Music has always been a part of me. At the age of four, my mom noticed my singing voice,” said Mundy.

    She started singing with the Watson Grove Baptist Church Choir at age 12, sung her first solo at age 13 and wrote her first song at age 15.

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  • New Albany's first garden show has plenty of tips for locals, visitors

    Approximately 300 people showed up Saturday at the first New Albany Home and Garden Show at the Union County Fairgrounds.

    Visitors could listen to a variety of speakers, buy seeds, pots, bottle trees, yard art, jewelry, food, and many other items for improving their home and garden.

    Sessions included “The Doctor Is In,” vegetable gardening, pruning the landscape, maintaining beautiful lawns, and food preservation.

    In addition, the show featured three speakers prominent in the field of gardening or horticulture.

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  • Local minister addresses race relations, community in "Revolving Door"

    Two years after writing the autobiography of his conversion from a life of crime to a life of ministry, Rev. Huvell Edwards has written his second book, “Revolving Door of Blacks in America,” with the hope of re-establishing the importance of community in improving race relations and keeping children out of jail.

    In “Revolving Door,” Edwards gives an account of race relations in the United States from the beginning of slave trading in the New World up to the present day.

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  • Liberty School December meeting

    Liberty school former students, family members, and supporters met December 16, 2008 for the annual Christmas covered-dish dinner and fellowship. Lil Grisham welcomed the 22 attendees. Prior to the dinner, E. M. Herring led the invocation/blessing.

    Following the dinner, a brief business session included November meeting minutes read by Joanne Gaines and the financial report given by Jewel Rowan.

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  • New full service salon Cut-N-Up opens in New Albany

    Cut-N-Up Full Service Salon is now open at 202 Highland Street. Cut-N-Up will be open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The salon will offer men and women’s haircuts, shampoo and style, perm, straightening, coloring, highlights, manicures and pedicures, acrylic, eyebrow, lip, chin and facial waxing, and other services and freehand nail design and nail art. Walk-ins are welcome. Law enforcement officials get half off.

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  • New Rode'o Salon brings a "sense of glamour" to New Albany

    The Rode’o Salon is now open at 132 West Bankhead Street in the old Hamilton Hardware building.

    Rode’o Salon will be open Monday through Saturdays from 9 a.m. with no designated closing time. The salon will offer men and women’s haircuts, shampoo and style, perm, straightening, coloring, highlights, manicures and pedicures, acrylic, eyebrow, lip and facial waxing, and other services. Walk-ins are welcome.

    “I am bringing a sense of glamour and elegance to New Albany. We offer high-end convenience with a full salon,” said Owner Rita Ladner.

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  • A Lifetime of Memories

    A marriage that lasts throughout seven decades is hard to come by these days.  For Magnolia Personal Care Home resident Freddy Stone, however, that was his reality for 72 years and he continues to cherish the memories he had with his wife, Edith.

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  • From student to published author

    Humbled 17-year-old New Albany High School student Patricia Wiseman has done something at an early age that some writers work their lifetime to accomplish: publish a novel.

    The day before Thanksgiving break she received a package in the mail and it contained her first novel, bound and complete.

    “I was shocked to actually see my writing in an actual book.  I hope this book becomes a success. What’s shocking is that I haven’t even finished with high school yet, and I already have a piece of writing in print,” said Wiseman.

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