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Today's News

  • Lady Hawks hand NAHS first loss of the season

    Aspriona Gilbert lived up to the hype as she had 24 points in Myrtle's 50-49 upset over New Albany Friday night.

    The Lady Hawks took advantage of Jazmine Spears' early foul trouble, as the Lady 'Dawgs leader picked up her third foul at the 6:05 mark in the second quarter.

    "We're a different team when Jazmine's on the floor," NAHS head coach John Stroud said. "We were able to build a six to eight point lead when she was on the court both times, but when she only plays 15 to 16 minutes of a 32 minute game, it hurts us."

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  • Ingomar splits contests with Okolona

    Things are coming together piece-by-piece for the Ingomar Lady Falcons.

    Saturday night's pieces of the puzzle came in the form of a pair of double-doubles from Brittany Edwards and Shelly Grisham.

    "Brittany, Shelly, and Claire (Wise) were behind our guard play at the start of the season, but they have been working real hard to get better… they are a lot of the reason we have been playing a lot better here lately," Ingomar head coach Richard Byrd.

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  • Another Board disappointment

    For the observers who have paid close attention, it was not a surprise to learn that the New Albany Board of Aldermen decided to uphold their earlier decision to terminate the employment of former New Albany Parks and Recreation Director Edgar Capaning. Many of those observers who attended the Board meeting Monday night expressed their displeasure with not only all the members of the Board, including the Mayor, but with the manner by which this whole termination process has been handled.

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  • Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation

    Editor’s Note: Although written over 140 years ago, the Thanksgiving Proclamation issued by then President Abraham Lincoln gives more than a small bit of applicable advice to our handling of the economic challenges of today as compared with our nation coping with the terrible civil war of that day. That similarity is that of keeping our faith.

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  • Charity, economic decline and derivatives

     The Thanksgiving holiday will be a different experience for millions of Americans this year and probably next year as well. By then, millions will be unemployed, adding to the million or so unemployed this year and they will all know that unemployment checks are long used up before turkey and dressing can even be thought about.

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  • Bailouts need explanations to the taxpayers

    More than enough can be said about the government bailout of the financial wizards who got us into this recession mess in the first place. As usual, our politicians are primarily interested in saving their campaign contribution meal tickets and if anything is left they might have a consideration for the rest of us.

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  • State education “experts” create “Scrooge” attitude

    Here I am, trying to get into the Christmas spirit and along comes another issue that will surely bring out the Ebenezer Scrooge in me. As those who know me already understand, there are few things about which I do not have an opinion, but with some subjects, I have been known to have stronger than usual objections.

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  • Past promises returning to bite us, you know where

    To add to my column of last Friday about the building of a road to where existing roads already go, I have to share information from a phone call I received from a friend in this regard. This person may or may not know the real story, but the information is so illogical and ridiculous, as is usually the case when dealing with the state and it’s agencies, it has the ring of validity.

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  • It’s not too early to announce

    It is not too early for those who would throw their hats into the ring and run for a New Albany municipal public office to announce their intentions to do so. There’s no real advantage to announcing as filing time gets nearer, that’s just a touch of drama that really surprises no one.

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  • More on the road theory

     And then there’s that old saying, “You win some and you lose some,” which applies to getting information from folks about stuff that other people don’t want you to know. However, in the case of my information source who told me the Blue Springs highway project was the result of a promise our governor made to Toyota, I think there were some guarantees about distances and elapsed times between plants and they are being used to justify and camouflage some additional reasons for the road to go where roads already go.

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