BISHOP ANNOUNCES ALBANY, LEESBURG TRANSPORTATION PROJETS
Tweet Washington, DC – Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (GA-2) announced today that the Fiscal Year 2011 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill (H.R. 5850) passed the U.S. House of Representatives last night by a vote of 251 to 167. The bill includes funding for two Second District transportation projects: $500,000 for the Southwest [...]
Read More →Movie Night to Celebrate the Last Days of Summer Vacation
Tweet Chehaw is providing a free movie to guests of the park (Albany, Ga.)- Chehaw will celebrate these last days of summer vacation by showing a free movie, Madagascar 2, on July 31, starting at 9 p.m. This fun family film with an all animal cast will provide a great escape for those parents and [...]
Read More →10 reasons Wild Adventures ROCKS
Tweet When Wild Adventures in Valdosta went through an ownership transition a few years ago, I figured that the end might be near. I figured that the best theme park between Six Flags and Disney World, the one sure-fire place to treat the kids to great fun, was kaput. Besides, I knowingly said to [...]
Read More →Chehaw announces new monkey
Tweet By Mallory McBride Chehaw Wild Animal Park on Tuesday announced the birth of the latest addition to the Black and White Colobus Monkey family. The baby was found during a morning routine check on July 5. The mother and baby were taken off the exhibit to ensure the baby was doing well, and has since been reunited [...]
Read More →Let’s recycle, Albany, for our children’s sake
Tweet Would you be willing to pay $1 a month to have the city haul away your recyclable items? How about $2? Or $3? We would. Heck, we probably spend that much money or more in gasoline hauling our old newspapers, office paper, milk jugs, beverage bottles and aluminum cans to the Meredyth Drive recycling [...]
Read More →Check your surroundings
Tweet I want to share with you the importance of surrounding yourself with the right people. Oprah Winfrey had a quote that she used a few years ago that stated, “Surround yourself only with people who are going to lift you higher.” This is something that we must take seriously if we are to become [...]
Read More →Whatcha Say, Albany?
Tweet I SURE WISH THEY offered curbside recycling in Albany or give a rate discount if you do recycle. I go once a week to our recycling center in East Albany at Thornton Community Center. You don’t even have to separate it. I also wish more people recycled. DR. MARCIA HOOD GUEST-conducted our choir at [...]
Read More →Racism has no place in the 21st Century
Tweet What a wild week it’s been when it comes to race relations in the Artesian City. Shirley Sherrod was accused of racism, then had it proven that she wasn’t a racist, all within the span of a couple of days. I admit, I bought Andrew Breitbart’s story hook, line and sinker and I’m rather [...]
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