ASU’S FREEMAN UNDER FIRE OVER DNA EXPERIMENT
Tweet By Kevin Hogencamp (UPDATED 7 P.M. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15. Please check back for additional updates) Albany State University is accused of botching a federally funded 2010 DNA study involving 21 undergraduate students by failing to obtain approval for the project beforehand and by not following privacy regulations, training requirements and other protocol, [...]
Read More →Letter to the editor: Freeman raise undeserved, unequitable
Tweet It is a bitter irony that the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia has awarded Dr, Everette Freeman, President of Albany State University, an extremely large salary increase and has made similar hikes in pay for members of his “inner circle” while the hard-working faculty members of ASU have not received one red [...]
Read More →Church Briefs
Tweet Now- Monday, Aug. 29 First United Methodist Church of Albany, 307 Flint Ave., will present “The Bible in 90 Days” beginning Thursday, June 9 and then on Mondays through Aug. 29 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Building 3, Conference Room A. Rev. Carrie Austin and Dr. Brandon Keaton will lead the curriculum, which [...]
Read More →Obituaries
Tweet Salvador “Ben” Benegas, 90 Salvador “Ben” Benegas, 90, father of Sandra Lee of Albany, passed away on Friday, June 10 at Morningside Assisted Living. A memorial service will be at a later date in Arlington National Cemetery.
Read More →Dirt turned on $5.2M library
Tweet By David Shivers It may have seemed to some like a day that would never arrive, but at long last the ceremonial first earth was turned June 13 to officially signal the start of construction on the new Lee County Library headquarters and conference center. Lee County commission chair Ed Duffy told those gathered [...]
Read More →Airport maintenance manager convicted of theft
Tweet By Kevin Hogencamp (UPDATED 4:39 PM) Editor’s note: Check back for updates to this article. Former Albany city worker Sean Reddish was convicted today of stealing scrap material from a sign project at the municipal airport despite having his boss’s permission to take scrap material from other projects. Reddish, who was the airport operations [...]
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