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Opinion

  • Fair takes a chance

    The organizers of the Union County Fair have taken a bold step in an effort to take the fair up a notch.

  • One board spot left

    The election of Kevin Dale White to the New Albany Board of Aldermen leaves only one of the five spots to be decided.

  • Pride at graduation

    It’s graduation week in our area high schools. By this evening 301 seniors, up from 274 last year, will have gotten their diplomas in the New Albany and Union County schools.

  • Farmer's Market

    The Biscuits and Jam Farmers’ Market has kicked off its second season on a vacant property between Fred’s and the Tallahatchie River Bridge.

  • Improving city water

    New Albany has taken another major step toward improving its water system.

  • Bluegrass Saturday

    This Saturday is New Albany’s annual foray into bluegrass and fiddlin’ music as the community hosts the Down From the Hills Heritage Music and Mississippi Blue Grass Championships.

  • Liquor rules a formality

    We think the New Albany Board of Alderman acted responsibly in approving unanimously the ordinance to make the sale of wine and liquor legal in the city beginning June 6.

  • Taking a bold step

    The announcement yesterday of a partnership between the Toyota Education Endowment Fund and Mississippi State University to provide a course in development of web applications was overshadowed by city elections in New Albany and Tupelo.

  • Go to polls on Tuesday

    Next Tuesday’s primary election is important in New Albany because all of the races except Alderman, Ward 4, and Alderman, Ward 3, will be decided that day.

  • Help local retailers

    Our local businesses, our cities, our schools and our state are being hurt because many online businesses do not collect sales tax on purchases.

  • Progressive energy steps

    The installation of a solar-panel array at the Toyota manufacturing plant in Blue Springs is significant to our community in two ways.

  • Celebration Saturday

    This Saturday the local coalition that organized the Excel by 5 early childhood initiative is celebrating the community’s official certification in the program.

  • Spring cleanup

    It’s spring cleanup time and our area certainly needs it. Recent rains have spurred the growth of weeds and high grass, leaving a generally overgrown look in some areas both in and outside the city of New Albany.

  • Choosing city leaders

    The upcoming city primary election promises to be an important one with lively contests for mayor and chief of police as well as races in three of the five aldermen spots.
    All of the city elections except Alderman, Ward Four, will be decided in the Democratic primary on May 7 or the runoff election May 21.

  • Fill up the theater

    Later this month we will have an opportunity to hear one of the world’s best young pianists. And she won’t be on television or satellite radio. She will be right here in New Albany.

  • Correcting a mistake

    The Mississippi Senate Education Committee has wisely blocked the appointment of Joel Bomgar to the state Board of Education.

  • Hurting our schools

    The deal is done.
    The Mississippi Legislature has given final approval to a bill that will allow the money available for public education to be further diluted by creation of more competing charter schools.

  • Gardening weekend

    The annual New Albany Home and Garden Show will take place Friday and Saturday, April 5 and 6, at the Union County Fairgrounds.

  • Switching parties

    State Sen. Nickey Browning of Pontotoc has become the latest Mississippi legislator to switch political parties.

  • Protecting the hens

    It’s a case of putting a fox in the henhouse.
    Pardon us for starting with a trite expression, but it fits the situation perfectly. Monday House Speaker Phillip Gunn, a Republican from Clinton announced he is appointing Joel Bomgar to the state Board of Education.

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