Today's News

     It is always sad when there is a necessary budget cut, as in the one Governor Haley Barbour proposed this week, that the reduction in money so badly needed by our schools has to be a part. Regardless, however, school funds are included and, once again, our school administrators, teachers and staff will shoulder the burden of educating our children with less money, but with the same expectations from all of us as if their budgets were intact.

The out-of-town tabloid gleefully announced this week that  “With only a little over a month left in the qualifying period, interest remains low in the upcoming New Albany municipal election.” This utter nonsense was written with great enthusiasm as their out-of-town puppeteers erroneously figure from their uninformed sources who at least spend some time here in New Albany, that over the next month, no one else will qualify for the open positions.

Deepest sympathy to the family of Billy Wayne Anderson who was buried last  Saturday. I know two of his sisters, Nell Anderson and Bobbie Jones.  Bobbie and husband, Gaston are members of our Church.

Imogene Priest had surgery last week on her sinuses and said she is doing fine.  I am sure that was not a pleasant thing to have done.  Our Mississippi weather can keep sinuses aggravated just about the year round.  Best wishes to her.

Hello there again.  I've had a few questions sent to me, so I thought I would address them first:

When do you prune a snowball bush?  Personally, I would probably let it grow all it wanted to, but if space is a problem, you can prune it back after it blooms. 

When do I cut my butterfly bush back?  Go ahead and cut it back to the ground and it will come back.

When do I prune my crepe myrtles?  Now is the time to do that if you haven't already.