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Opinion

  • Upstairs downstairs

    There’s an unusual event happening downtown this Saturday. The New Albany Main Street Association has scheduled something called “Upstairs Downtown.”

  • Town hall meeting

    A community town hall meeting has been scheduled for 6 p.m. next Tuesday to discuss efforts under way to better provide health and education services to children up through age 5.

  • Pipe dream to reality

    Getting Dr. Charles Garrett to head up the establishment of the Wellspring Center for Professional Futures is a coup for the CREATE Foundation and its Toyota Education Enhancement Advisory Committee.

  • Protection needed

    The Mississippi House has let die a proposal by Gov. Phil Bryant that would have eliminated civil service protection for rank-and-file state workers.

  • It's music to our ears

    Union County Schools Superintendent Ken Basil and the county Board of Education decided  three years ago to start a county-wide band program.

  • Analyzing our assets

    A team of specialists from the Mississippi Development Authority has analyzed New Albany’s assets and attractiveness to visitors, as well as potential manufacturers and developers.

  • First-class performers

    The Tupelo Symphony Orchestra, with one of the country’s top tenors as a soloist, put on a first-class performance Sunday in the Cine Theater of the Magnolia Civic Center.

  • Improving Highway 15

    The Union County Board of Supervisors has asked the state to use $40 million to improve state Highway 15 between New Albany and Pontotoc, instead of widening state Highway 9 between Blue Springs and Highway 348.

  • A political power grab

    The administration of Gov. Phil Bryant and the Republican-controlled Mississippi Legislature are busy trying to politicize state agencies right down to the receptionist at the front door.

  • It's green thumb time

    It’s spring and that means it is time for the New Albany Home and Garden Show, which will take place next Friday and Saturday, March 30-31.

  • Not time for dawdling

    The months continue to roll by with no plan in place establishing minimum standards for rental housing in New Albany.

  • Moving toward vote

    The Mississippi House of Representatives has approved a bill that would allow cities, including New Albany, to make their own decisions on the sale of wine and spirits within city limits.
    The House Wednesday passed the legislation on a 65-54 vote. The issue now goes to the Senate for consideration.

  • Interstate standards

    A major traffic improvement at the downtown New Albany exit on U.S. 78 (Interstate 22) gets under way later this month.

  • Support our theater

    The Tallahatchie River Players, our community theater group, is presenting “Crimes of the Heart,” a play that involves Southern comedy, tragedy and scandal, at the Magnolia Civic Center this weekend.

  • Raid on education

    The raid on the public education treasury is well under way in the Mississippi Legislature.

  • Preparing for the Trail

    A couple of years ago local officials predicted the Tanglefoot Trail would be completed by the summer or fall of this year.

  • City should decide issue

    The city of New Albany has agreed to ask the Mississippi Legislature to allow city voters to make their own decision on the sale of wine and spirits in the city.

  • Library aid dwindling

    The Union County Library is bracing for another budget cut from the state because of the new budget proposal by Gov. Phil Bryant.

  • Let's play hard ball

    We understand that residents of the Murrah Road area in New Albany want the run-down trailer park and motel near their property gone. Frankly, so does most everyone else in the city that we have heard from.
    But that is where the agreement ends. The Murrah Road residents group has asked the city to purchase the property. According to city officials, the owners want $710,000 for it and want to retain ownership of the trailers, which they then could move somewhere else outside the city.

  • Hurting our schools

    Public education is under attack again in Mississippi. The campaign to expand so-called “charter” schools throughout the state has gained more impetus from Gov. Phil Bryant and the Republican-controlled legislature.

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