Election day is Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016. The Floyd County Clerk's Office has information that can help you find a voting location or candidate information.
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Mayor Jeff Gahan and the City of New Albany, along with 91.9 WFPK are proud to present the third Boomtown Ball & Festival!
"We’re very excited about our third year hosting the Boomtown Ball & Festival," stated Mayor Jeff M. Gahan. "One new addition to the festival this year will be the Classical 90.5 Instrument Drive for New Albany-Floyd County schools. The Instrument Drive is a great way to expose young kids in our community to the wonderful world of art and music. I want to invite everyone to come help us kick-off the summer event season in New Albany."
This event will be held on Market St. in downtown New Albany on Sunday, May 29th. The City of New Albany has again enlisted the support of Flea Off Market to assist with the booth component of the festival. Flea Off Market is a unique outdoor bazaar that will feature both regional and local New Albany vendors offering records, books, antiques, vintage items, fine arts & crafts, and more!
New to this year’s event is Classical 90.5's Instrument Drive to collect instruments for New Albany-Floyd County Public Schools. They will have a drop-off booth and activity booth open at the event from 4-8pm. The Carnegie Center will also serve as a drop off for instruments during the following week (May 31 - April 1). For more information on the drive, click HERE
Gates for this free, family-friendly event open at 1pm. The line-up for the outdoor stage begins at 1:30pm.
The initial line-up is here, stay tuned for more acts to be announced!
Small Black Gracing the cover of Brooklyn band Small Black’s new record, a mysterious woman walks alone on the dunes at dusk, amid pockmarked sand. She’s the subject of a found photo, one of many rescued with the warmth of a blow dryer and a fireplace, by singer Josh Hayden Kolenik after Hurricane Sandy flooded his family’s Long Island home. The faded image offers clues and invites viewers to construct their own narrative, one that escapes even the picture’s taker, Kolenik’s father.
To put it simply, Best Blues is an album about loss. The specific loss of precious people in our lives, but also the loss of memories and the difficult fight to preserve them. “I spent months trying to scan all these images & letters, most covered with ocean dirt, and in doing so discovered what people often find in their family’s past: that they are a hell of a lot like those who’d come before,” says Kolenik. The chorus of standout “Boys Life” echoes this sentiment with the refrain “pictures of youth/picturing you,” over a track that itself was an old demo re-discovered by accident by the band, during a late night jam session at a cabin in Upstate NY. The compassion of the record collects itself in the soft repeating mantra-esque hook in “No One Wants It To Happen To You”.
Knox Hamilton hails from Little Rock, Arkansas. Fueled by the similar staples within their collective musical taste, the members of Knox Hamilton blend laid back guitar riffs and catchy bass lines with rhythmic drum beats and soaring vocals to produce a sound that’s as likely to make you want to visit the beach as it is to move your feet.
KOA are from Nashville, Tennessee — the "Country Music Capital" of the world— but the seven piece band is more interested in groove than twang. Founded by childhood friends and songwriting duo Chase Bader and Conor Kelly, the group mashes soul, rock & roll and funk into an eclectic, danceable sound, focusing on songs that aim for the heart, head...and feet.
Otis Junior & Dr. Dundiff Otis Junior is a young, emerging soul artist from Louisville, Ky. Dr. Dundiff is a producer and lyricist who blends Old-School Hip-Hop, Neo-Soul, Jazz Fusion, Down Tempo Beats posted regularly on his SoundCloud. The two met last year and recorded an EP, due to be released this spring on Germany's Jakarta Records.
King Mud - is Van Campbell from the Black Diamond Heavies, Freddy J IV from Left Lane Cruiser and features guitarist Parker Griggs of Radio Moscow. They joined forces in Los Angeles for a marathon session that gave birth to an album of hard blues, blue eyed soul, heavy rock, and feedback! “Victory Motel Sessions”.
Typhoid Beach What started as a series of gritty, power demos has since evolved into Typhoid Beach- the passion project of Mat Pennington, formerly of Dream Eye Color Wheel and Riverboys. Pennington and company capture the spirit of an endless, youthful summer with fresh melodies that grab you and lyrics that won’t let go. With performances that make you realize these guys don’t know how to go to bed early, it’s hard not to join in. So buy a beer, get up front, and let the earworms take over.
On Monday, April 18th, the mosquito abatement program is scheduled to resume for the 2016 year. The abatement beginning on Monday is dependent on both the temperature and weather – it must be above 60 degrees outside and not raining. Application start times begin at dusk and continue through midnight. Forecasts (as of April 14th) appear to be good conditions for the mosquito abatement program to begin.
The abatement route will cover the corridors of Corydon Pike, State Street, Green Valley Road, Grantline Road, Charlestown Road, Spring Street, and all public parks and green spaces. The current plans call for two, weekly applications.
All mosquito problems should be reported to the Mayor’s Office and/or the Floyd County Health Department (FCHD). The FCHD monitors mosquito populations through the season, and serious issues and concerns are forwarded to the Abatement Program.
This control program uses a fogger that covers a two-mile radius to apply the anti-mosquito product Duet. The active ingredients in Duet have been carefully tested, and the product is registered for ground and aerial applications in outdoor residential and recreation areas. Its active ingredients break down rapidly in sunlight into carbon dioxide and water vapor. Duet has been widely used in mosquito control since 1975.
Over the last several years, the City of New Albany has been analyzing the local public and private housing inventory and needs of the community. Just recently, Mayor Gahan and his staff worked with the New Albany City Council to develop and pass legislation requiring rental units to be registered within the City limits. However, the existing stock of public housing also needed to be examined. During this review process several areas of concern arose:
The facade of a public housing unit in New Albany.
1. The current physical condition of our public housing units is in need of improvement, with estimates for such repairs being nearly $138 million.
Tarps cover the roof at a public housing unit in New Albany.
2. The current concentration of public housing units is too high and their proximity to each other is too close. According to officials from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), New Albany has a very high number of public housing units (nearly 1100), especially for a city with a population of only about 38,000.
3. The residents of the New Albany community deserve to live in healthy neighborhoods with access to quality education, job opportunities, reliable transportation, and other amenities.
It is the City’s intention to begin the process of addressing these concerns in order to bring a higher quality of life to the residents and the community.
First, Mayor Gahan brought these concerns to the New Albany Housing Authority Commissioners and the Director. He has met with the Commissioners and Director on several occasions to discuss the current state of public housing and a vision for the future. Then, with assistance from Senator Joe Donnelly’s office, Mayor Gahan and other city officials traveled to Indianapolis to meet with officials from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority. The Mayor and his staff along with the various officials discussed the areas of concern and began to develop a plan to address these issues. In order to ensure proper requirements are met to address the concerns, the City retained public housing experts from Faegre Baker Daniels who have experience in dealing with HUD to help develop strategies to move forward.
“We are committed to working with the New Albany Housing Authority Commissioners and Director in order to develop a long-term plan and strategy for public housing – one which invests and preserves some crucial public housing units, reduces density by moving to a more scattered site model as adopted by HUD, and assesses our ability to provide and maintain current levels of quality public housing units,” stated Mayor Gahan.
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