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Today's News

  • March for Babies

    One in five babies born in Mississippi are born premature.  Baptist Memorial Hospital – Union County delivers 1, 100 babies a year and approximately four a month are born premature. Union County and New Albany are teaming up with fundraising efforts to help fund research and education for March for Babies, which is under the umbrella organization March of Dimes.

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  • Forecast: newspapers have many years to go

    By Louisa Ada Seltzer

    The latest forecast for America’s newspapers would suggest that extinction is not too far off. UBS figures newspaper revenues will be down 12.2 percent when the final figures are in for 2008 and tumble another 17.6 percent this year.

    Already, a number of papers around the country have cut circulation, or frequency, or both, and others have gone online only, scrapping their print editions entirely.

    More of that is widely expected to occur this year as the ad recession deepens.

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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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  • River Players present "Earnest"

    Come see "The Importance of Being Earnest" this weekend at the Cine Theater in downtown New Albany. The play will be shown February 20th at 7 p.m. and February 21st at 2 and 7 p.m.

    This is a directing debut for the play's director Barbara Wise. Wise has been involved with theater for five years doing lighting, sound and odd jobs, but this is her first time ever directing a play.

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  • Frain to run for At-Large post

    New Albany resident Daniel Frain, of 515 Madison Street, has announced that he will run against incumbent Dan Skinner in the city's upcoming Alderman-At-Large race.

    Frain, who has been a resident of New Albany for approximately 10 years, is in the sales and marketing field.  Originally from Pennsylvania, Frain has also worked as an engineer for the New Jersey Transit and worked for six years at Walt Disney World in Florida.

    Frain said that from an early age he has had an interest in politics.

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  • Incumbents qualified in Myrtle elections

    To date, each member of the board of aldermen in Myrtle, as well as the mayor, have qualified to run in the spring elections.

    Myrtle Mayor Joe M. Rials, as well as Aldermen Joseph Graham, Jeanette Thomas, Carolyn McCuiston and Fleurette Ausburn, have all qualified with the town clerk to run for re-elections as independents.

    All aldermen positions in Myrtle are At-Large, as Myrtle does not have wards.

    As of press time, none of the incumbents had any challengers in the races.

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  • Lowe's begins hiring this week

    The Union County Development Association announced Monday that Lowe's Home Improvement Center will begin the hiring process for its New Albany store.

    Applicants interested in working at the New Albany location may to to 208 Starlyn Avenue, next to Domino's between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. every day through Friday, Feb. 20, this week.

    According to UCDA Executive Director Stephen Surles, Lowe's will be looking to hire approximately 100 employees in the coming weeks, excluding the store manager.

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  • Automatic pay raises and differences of opinion

    Last month the Congress of these United States automatically gave themselves a raise in pay. This increase amounted to $4,700 per year, bringing their annual salaries to $174,000 for all 535 House and Senate members, costing taxpayers more than $2.5 million. This was a 2.8 per cent increase while millions of Americans have lost their jobs and are barely surviving on unemployment.

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  • Birth of Jordan MaKenzie Kimmons

    Bettye Johnson and Justin Kimmons of New Albany welcomed their baby girl Jordan MaKenzie Kimmons into the world on Thursday, January 8, 2009 at North Mississippi Medical Center Women's Hospital in Tupelo at 4:54 p.m. She weighed 8 pounds, 3 ounces and was 19 ½ inches long. She was greeted home by big sister Justis Breanna Kimmons. Jordan's grandparents are Janetta Cooper and Samuel Carter Sr. of Detroit, Mich., Audrey Kimmons of Bradley and Keith Mosley of New Albany. She is the great-granddaughter of Leo and Winnie Kimmons of New Albany.

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  • Birth of Zoe Mary-Klare King

    Wendy Kidd King and Chad King of Hickory Flat welcomed daughter Zoe Mary-Klare King into the world on January 17, 2009 at 5:14 p.m. at the Baptist Memorial Hospital – Union County in New Albany. She weighed 6 pounds and was 18 inches long. Zoe is the granddaughter of Pam Kidd and Charlie Canerdy of New Harmony, Chuck and Lou Ann Kidd of Ellistown, Charlie and Tina McCollum of Verona, and Perry King of Hickory Flat. Her great-grandparents are Christine and the late Floyce Gaines of New Harmony, Carolyn Adams of New Albany, the late James (Billy) Kidd of New Albany, Bro.

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