By Jeff Rodek for ThisWeek Community News
As New Albany High School’s commencement approaches and the graduates prepare their speeches, I’m reminded of all the great speakers, both national and local, who have visited New Albany and interacted with our students.
Through the New Albany Community Foundation and its donors, New Albany students have met with Pulitzer […]
The New Albany Community Foundation is pleased to recognize Karen and Brian Bailey, longtime New Albany residents and business owners, for recently establishing a fund at the New Albany Community Foundation to support community mental health initiatives.
Inspired by mental health advocate Mariel Hemingway’s fall visit to New Albany and her interaction with the community, the […]
By Sarah Sole for This Week Community News
Starting this week, New Albany community members will be able to see and touch some of the documents that played a role in the nation’s history.
Such famous documents as the Gettysburg Address and the Federalist Papers are scheduled to be displayed from April 5 to May 11 at […]
by Lori Wince, for ThisWeek Community News
Students, residents and health-care professionals were talking about mental-health issues and suicide prevention last week when actress and mental-health advocate Mariel Hemingway visited New Albany.
Hemingway met with 1,000 students on Oct. 12 to suggest ways to identify peers who might be struggling with mental-health issues.
The students were from New […]
by Sarah Sole for CitySceneColumbus.com
Mariel Hemingway visits New Albany as part of mental health advocacy activism
Though her family name became a household name before she was even born, Mariel Hemingway went on to achieve fame in her own right.
The granddaughter of renowned writer Ernest Hemingway pursued an acting career and, later, used her family’s history […]
by Nancy Gilson, for The Columbus Dispatch
Two former U.S. secretaries of defense, Robert Gates and Leon Panetta, will headline a Dec. 9 benefit event for the New Albany Community Foundation.
The conversation with Gates and Panetta, both of whom served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency in addition to their years as secretary of defense, […]
Hanging baskets of white, purple and red petunias, green-leaved, sentinel- like Norway maple trees and shiny white benches camped on rust-colored brick walkways splash their colors on Market Square in New Albany. A branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library anchors the square, which is flanked by twin two-story, 20,000-square-foot rows of shops, restaurants and offices […]
By LORI WINCE ThisWeek Community News
The New Albany Community Foundation’s Jefferson Series began Feb. 5 with a chat between two successful businessmen: Leslie Wexner of New Albany and T. Boone Pickens of Texas.
Though the two men followed different career paths, both said they began with the support of a strong family unit and both became […]
By LORI WINCE ThisWeek Community News
The New Albany Community Foundation this month will launch the Jefferson Series of community lectures at the Jeanne B. McCoy Community Center for the Arts.
“We’ve had a lot of success over the years with A Remarkable Evening and the student lectures we’ve held at the (New Albany-Plain Local) schools,” said […]
By LORI WINCE ThisWeek Community News
New Albany’s new community health center will be named for local fitness advocate Phil Heit.
The 55,000-square-foot facility — previously referred to as the Core, the New Albany Center for Community Health — will be known as the Phillip Heit Center for Healthy New Albany.
New Albany City Council unanimously approved a […]
