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Kiwanians get scoop on Radium project
By David Shivers A lot of DoCo Kiwanians, and other county residents as well, hold fond memories of summer days spent at the old Radium Springs casino and club, a landmark that fell into disuse and was eventually torn down following the devastating floods of 1994 and 1998.
Continue ReadingAge discrimination? Fired city worker, 61, says so
By Kevin Hogencamp Ten days after an Albany city employee complained that she should be making as much money as a new employee performing similar duties, the new employee was fired for allegedly falsifying her resume. But to soften the blow, she was given a severance check. Martha Everson, of Baconton, says in a federal [...]
Continue ReadingBlakely farmer bales with $50,000 in lottery winnings
ATLANTA – One Blakely farmer has stumbled upon a special kind of seed. Paul Allen, 73, won a $50,000 top prize playing the popular Georgia Lottery instant game Jumbo Bucks Classic. Krishna Food Store, 910 N. Main St. in Blakely, sold the lucky ticket.
Continue Reading‘One-sided physical altercation’ between Harter and Lloyd
By Kevin Hogencamp These are anxious times in Albany, particularly in the public school system. And especially in the school’s administrative offices following the rogue process that resulted in the hiring of Superintendent Joshua Murfree and amid budget cutbacks and a cheating scandal that could result in the Dougherty County School Board losing some of [...]
Continue ReadingPerry & Walters adds associate
Special to the Journal Perry & Walters LLP, Albany’s oldest law firm, has hired Jonathan L. Morris as an associate. A magna cum lade graduate from Georgia State University Law School, Morris joined Perry & Walters where his practice area includes municipal government, civil litigation, and property tax appeals.
Continue ReadingThe Enduring Spirit of the American Worker
By Georgia Labor Commissioner Michael Thurmond Labor Day 2010 celebrations will be muted or non-existent for millions of Americans who are unemployed, underemployed, or too discouraged to continue the search for work. The Great Recession is reaping a bitter harvest of jobs, hopes, and dreams. Americans fortunate enough to be gainfully employed are haunted by [...]
Continue ReadingWhatcha Say, Albany?
DOUGHERTY COUNTY IS IN a sad state when teachers having tattoos becomes an issue, but our poor quality of education is not addressed! Let’s get rid of the bad teachers, not the tattooed teachers. Come on school board members, use your brains for more than something to fill up your skull! Where are our priorities? [...]
Continue ReadingBAE: A GRAND OPENING
SPECIAL PHOTO BAE Systems hosted a ribbon-cutting celebration at its new Albany office at 2410 Westgate Blvd. With more than 100,000 employees working in more than 100 countries, and reported sales of $36.2 billion in 2009, BAE is the world’s second-largest defense contractor, supporting a range of military and civilian agency customers, including products for [...]
Continue ReadingFREEDOM WORKERS
SPECIAL PHOTO The less-taxes, small-government political advocacy group FreedomWorks’ chapter in Albany hosted thE organization’s national chairman, Dick Armey, last Wednesday at Merry Acres Conference Center. Armey, a former House majority leader from Texas, was an engineer of the Republican Revolution of the 1990s. He was in Albany prommoting the book “Give Us Liberty, A Tea Party Manifesto,” which [...]
Continue ReadingMANAGEMENT GRAD
SPECIAL PHOTO Jocyclyn W. Yates, operations manager for Albany Area Primary Health Care Inc., recently completed the 10-day UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Health Care Executive Program. The program aims enhance the management and leadership skills of community-based health care organization executives.
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Kiwanians get scoop on Radium project
- Age discrimination? Fired city worker, 61, says so
- Blakely farmer bales with $50,000 in lottery winnings
- ‘One-sided physical altercation’ between Harter and Lloyd
- Perry & Walters adds associate
- The Enduring Spirit of the American Worker
- Lott hid forgeries from police, feds
- Whatcha Say, Albany?
- BAE: A GRAND OPENING
- FREEDOM WORKERS
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