Dougherty residents claim lottery prizes
Tweet Special to the Journal A Putney resident has collected a $250,000 Georgia Lottery prize and an Albany resident– a former owner of WFXL-TV – claimed a separate $10,000 prize. Carol Harrell, 42, of Putney matched the first five winning numbers in Friday’s Mega Millions drawing and won the game’s quarter-million-dollar second prize. Winning [...]
Read More →Bo Henry, Stewart Campbell purchase Merry Acres
Tweet (News Release) Bo Henry and Stewart Campbell are proud to announce that they have purchased the Merry Acres Event Center/Restaurant and Office complex along with the Merry Acres Motel from the Dozier Family who has owned and operated the business since the 1950′s. The Dozier and Stanfill families have had a very successful real [...]
Read More →Whatcha Say, Albany?
Tweet DOUGHERTY COUNTY IS STARTING to “wring its hands” about the next year’s budget. Among the potential “cuts” is discontinuing “total public access”, whatever that means, to the part of the website accessed through a service provider. As best I can determine, this part appears to be what allows property searches for data such as [...]
Read More →Actions Taken by the Georgia State Board of Used Motor Vehicle Dealers at its May 18 Meeting
Tweet Macon, Ga.—The Georgia State Board of Used Motor Vehicle Dealers held its meeting on Wednesday, May 18, 2011. The Board approved nine applications for licensure.
Read More →Why do I carry
Tweet “See what these kids do, is hear about us toting pistols And they want to get one, cos they think the sh–’s cool Not knowin’ we’re really just protectin’ ourselves” – Eminem Guns are always a touchy subject. No matter what statistics you bring out to back up your point that guns aren’t [...]
Read More →Public Records: Business Licenses
Tweet Action Alarms 600 Holly Drive Lot #52 Albany, Ga. 31705 Stacey Martin 638-1998 Low Voltage Contractor
Read More →Vintage Albany
Tweet This photo from the Facebook group, Vintage Albany, is circa 1954. It shows teacher Anna Bland and her students at the Eleventh Avenue School, also known as the Mill Village School. This small school was near the mill at Eleventh Avenue and Monroe Street and was exclusively for the children of mill employees. Anna [...]
Read More →The king is dead
Tweet “The King is dead! Long live the King!” Well maybe Windows XP is not really dead, but it has been taken over as the number one Operating System (OS) at least in the U.S. Windows Seven has finally done what Win Vista could not.
Read More →Oxford leading Lee’s growth
Tweet By Walter L. Johnson II “Life works well here.” That’s the slogan for Lee County these days, as its population has quadrupled over the last 40-plus years. Contributing to that growth is the recent openings of the new Publix shopping complex and the Albany Bank & Trust branch on U.S. Highway 19 South.
Read More →