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  • New Albany firefighters prepare for the real thing at local training facility

    The 9-1-1 distress call, the smell of smoke, the heat of flames, the weight of the 75-pound turnout gear, and the blood and adrenaline coursing through veins, is only some of what firemen experience every time they answer a call to extinguish a fire.

    Firefighters at the New Albany Fire Department fight fires on a weekly, monthly and sometimes daily basis, and to keep them in practice, the chief and captains hold a monthly fire training session at Fire Station 2 on Deaton Street in New Albany.  They call this address 123 Fire Academy Lane.

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  • County to receive $300k reimbursement for bridge project

    Union County will be reimbursed $343,100 for a Local System Bridge Program (LSBP) project that was completed in April 2008. This is for  LSBP projects 73-15, which had two bridges put across Sand Creek and Okannatie Creek on County Road 108, which are in district three.

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  • Four New Albany Teachers of the Year illustrate dedication to education

    With a combined 100 years of teaching experience and over 200 teachers in the New Albany School district, four teachers were recently honored for Teacher of the Year and one teacher also received the award for District Teacher of the Year.  The teachers that received this honor were: New Albany High School (NAHS) teacher Alicia Robinson, School of Career and Technical Education teacher and District Teacher of the Year Allison Moore, New Albany Elementary School (NAES) teacher Joan Nanney, and New Albany Middle School (NAMS) teacher Ranita Callicutt.

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  • Supervisors approve agreement on NA/UC airport projects

    During Tuesday's Union County board of supervisors meeting, postponed because of a mid-winter conference in Jackson as well as being closed Monday, Cook Coggins Engineering, Inc. requested reimbursement  for construction completed for a new runway and T-hangar at the New Albany/Union County Airport.

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  • New Albany Pilot Club celebrates 55 years of community service

    This year the Pilot Club of New Albany celebrates 55 years of being a community and service-minded club in New Albany. In honor of this celebration, Pilot International President Deborah Archer will come and speak to the club on February 2, 2009.

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  • Union County to begin football coach search

    Just as it gave Union County Superintendent Ken Basil authority to begin the search for a band director in the month of December, the Union County School Board gave Basil authority to begin a search for a football coach during January's monthly meeting.

    After deciding to develop an all-county Jr. High football team, with the idea of beginning football practice later this spring, the board gave Basil the go-ahead to find a coach to oversee the development of such a team.

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  • NA aldermen approve further payments for Martintown Industrial site construction

    During its first meeting of the new year, the New Albany board of aldermen approved the payment of invoices toward the continuing installation of road, water, sewer and gas lines at the Martintown Industrial Park site, located off Highway 30 West.

    The first invoice concerned the payment to Sherman-based Mendrop-Wages,  LLC, the firm overseeing all construction related to Toyota and the supplier sites for professional services in the amount of $10,347.97.

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  • Myrtle looks at purchase of new water tower

    A new water tower for the town of Myrtle is in the talks, as ESI Engineering Solutions were the guest at the January Aldermen meeting, held Tuesday, January 6.

    Mayor Joe Rials and company are interested in placing another tower in town to serve as a back-up in the event of another situation such as the one last month where a leak caused half of the town to be without water, as well as placing a boil water notice in the area.

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  • Preparing the Martintown site
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  • Union County Heritage museum changes business hours

    Beginning in January 2009, new hours at the Union County Heritage Museum will be 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Saturday. In addition, this is the final week for the exotic animal exhibit featuring the mounts and animals collected by the late Chico Foote. This exhibit closes Saturday, January10, 2009.

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