Today's News

While it did not make a decision regarding the hire of a new band director or beginning a band program this year or next, the Union County School board did entertain a presentation from a retired band director regarding the subject last week.

Robert Plunkett, a retired band director from Northeast Community College, presented a proposal to the board regarding what would need to be done regarding beginning such a program.

The Union County board of supervisors approved a 100-day timetable Monday for the construction of a a new hangar taxiway at the New Albany-Union County Airport.

As of February 4, 2009, WG Construction will have 100 days to complete the construction work.  The hangar taxiway is slated to be completed by May 15, 2009. Another future project will be the construction of a new hangar at the airport.

Roland Humphrey, engineer for Cook Coggins Engineering, Inc. - the company in charge of overseeing the project - made the request.

Silly me, I failed to grasp the real significance of the municipal salary information I shared with readers some months ago. I thought the real story was how much our mayor and aldermen were being paid and that the citizens had a right to know the correct amounts. Although that was the story, it really wasn’t.

    Arising from the efforts of Mississippi State Representative Brian Aldridge and Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, a couple of bills are being considered by both houses of the Legislature which concern the requirements for operations of a legitimate charity in our state. They propose easing the regulations concerning some of the paperwork many small charities find almost impossible with which to comply.