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Opinion

  • 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.

  • No rental bail out

    Residents of the Murrah Road area of New Albany continue to be upset with the city’s failure to deal forcefully with a run-down trailer park and motel near their property.

  • Spelling Bee a winner

    The annual Union County Spelling Bee is a reminder to us all that our public schools are doing a good job in teaching one of the basic fundamentals of education. That, of course, would be spelling.

  • How not to do it

    The New Albany Board of Aldermen recently demonstrated a classic way not to handle the business of the city.

  • Heed plea for help

    A group of Murrah Road residents has asked the New Albany Board of Aldermen for help in cleaning up the Resthaven Trailer Park.

  • Two events for charity

    Two events are coming up that benefit charitable causes. One has been around for a long time and the other is new this year. We commend both to you.

  • Barbour and justice

    My, my, what a mess. Instead of quietly slipping out the governor’s mansion to return to his former life as a lobbyist, Haley Barbour dropped a bombshell on his way out the door.

  • Well-water economics

    New Albany’s decision to continue supplying the city water from wells probably was the only economically feasible choice to make.

  • Grow or wither?

    What has generally been a low-key campaign on the proposal to allow the sale of wine and spirits in New Albany will be decided Tuesday, Jan. 10, in a special election.

  • An agenda for progress

    We take pride in providing the news in an objective fashion in our news columns. But here in this space we offer our opinion, and provide space in our Letters to the Editor column for yours.

  • Vote again on rentals

    A year has passed since the New Albany Board of Aldermen considered a plan to establish minimum standards for rental housing. The proposal was defeated on a 2-3 vote.
    We think it is time to look at the issue again.

  • Voting for restaurants

    Union County voters will face an important decision for the growth of our city in the special election Tuesday, Jan. 10.

  • Virginia and Santa

    Below the Gazette reprints eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon’s letter to the editor of New York’s Sun newspaper and the newspaper’s response on Sept. 21, 1897:

  • Doing right things right

    Our community breathed a collective sigh of relief this week with news that a New Albany man has been charged with capital murder in the shooting death of Amanda Price.

  • East Union football

    The Union County School District Board has voted to do away with the Union County varsity football team and move the program to the East Union Attendance Center.

  • A chance to share

    Many more families have qualified this year for aid from the 37th annual Sharing at Christmas program, which provides food and toys to those in need in Union County.

  • Not in our town

    The outpouring of concern and support for the Price family is just what we expected from our community.

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