Cody Bo Dillard signed with the Northeast Mississippi Community College’s baseball program on Monday to become the second pitcher to ink with the Tigers this year. Dillard is a left-handed pitcher from East Union High School where he had an impressive 6-2 overall mark — during his junior campaign from the mound in 11 appearances [...]
Archive | January, 2013
Expect Traffic Delays on U.S. Highway 78 in Union County
The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) would like to inform the public of the following traffic advisory on U.S. Highway 78 in Union County. Due to necessary maintenance repairs in the travel lane, motorists should expect intermittent stops in traffic along U.S. Highway 78 between State Route 30 and State Route 15 in New Albany, [...]
Message of Martin Luther King memorial day is ‘Carry on’
The Union County courtroom filled Saturday afternoon as local residents gathered for a spirited celebration of the life of civil-rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The theme this year was “We must go on” and keynote speaker Derric Morrison, pastor of Pontotoc Second Baptist Church, expanded on that using Hebrews 12:1-3. He talked about [...]
Coming Events week of 1/24/13
Lady Bulldogs softball team benefit breakfast The New Albany Lady Bulldog Softball Pancake Breakfast will be Saturday, Jan. 26, from 6 to 10:30 a.m. at the New Albany Middle School cafeteria. Plates will sell for $5 each. Carry-outs will be available. Gospel Explosion A Gospel Explosion will be held Saturday, Feb. 2, at First Evangelistical [...]
Are you ‘entitled’ or just ‘due?’
Every once in a while we receive emails that contains topics or information people feel strongly about. Sometimes they want us to print it in the News Exchange. Most of the time, these emails have been bouncing around the internet, sometimes for years. They sound reasonable and most people take them at face value. Whenever [...]
Culinary students study sandwich creation
Students in Anita Alef’s Culinary I classes at New Albany High School have been studying sandwiches. As an individual project, students were given the task of creating a sandwich, calculating the cost of purchasing ingredients, calculating a selling price, describing in detail the procedures for setting up a sandwich line in a restaurant, creating a [...]
Stacy wins garden club essay contest
Students at New Albany High School recently had the opportunity to participate in an essay contest sponsored by the New Albany Garden Club. The theme for this year’s essay contest was “Ways We Can Protect Aquatic Ecosystems.” Pictured is first place essay contest winner Jonathan Stacy. His essay has been submitted to the state level [...]
Special Honor Roll List for Ingomar Attendance Center 2nd Nine Weeks
2nd Grade Ayers, Dalton Lee; Boyd, Harrison Brock; Collier, Cadence Hope; Dillard, Lindsey Elizabeth; Downs, Noah Benjamin; Jolly, Larsen Brooke; Jones, T’nya Deasia; Manning, Will; McCurdy, Madison Deann; Mendoza, Savana Michelle; Moody, Sarah Grace; Pierce, Braden Elisha; Raines, Mattie Elizabeth; Siddell , Alise Charee; Smith, Jadyn Fayth; Smith, Jayla Ann; Sprouse, Kinsley Dawn; Whisenant, Madeline [...]
The Playhouse
The boxes have been hauled down from the attic, the decorations wrapped, loaded and packed away. That part of Christmas is history, but there’s been much more to my Christmas than what we packed away in the attic. The sparkle from the gold nativity scene on our dining table was reflected onto the faces of [...]
Sherman news
By Martha Swindle The Founder’s Day Committee is planning the upcoming 125th celebration for Saturday, March 23. Current and former Sherman residents are asked to send in their favorite recipes for the Founders Day Cookbook to P.O. Box 434, Sherman, MS 38869. Or if already typed, please email them to marthapooh@comcast.net. The cookbook will include [...]
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