Things to do Downtown this week!
Tweet Wednesday, July 27th- 5pm Wine Down Wednesdays! Location: Chill Bar & Lounge every Wednesday. Mix. Mingle. Sip. Unwind. Hangout with friends, listening to music & mingle with other professionals. Sponsored by Downtown Merchants, Global Essence, and Living Legends Salon. Thursday, July 28th – 6:30pm Twilight Paddle — 6:30 pm (trip lasts approximately 45 minutes) [...]
Read More →Whatcha Say, Albany?
Tweet I AM ALL FOR The Levee’s move downtown. Since my son started taking lessons at The LeVee, his interest has grown. The LeVee should be voted the BEST OF THE BEST for all around youth activities! WHAT A GREAT DECISION (the Levee’s move) will be – for both The Levee and for downtown Albany! [...]
Read More →CHECK FORGERY SUSPECT
Tweet From the Albany Police Department: These are photos of a woman cashing checks that were stolen from an Entering Automobile incident that occurred at 200 North Westover Boulevard. The woman forged the checks and cashed them via an identification that was stolen in an Entering Automobile in Cobb County, Georgia. If anyone recognizes the [...]
Read More →Food Scores
Tweet Chill Bar & Lounge, 242 W. BROAD AVE. STE C, 31701; July 21; Score: 100; Grade: A Courtyard by Marriott, 3019 KENSINGTON COURT, 31707; July 15; Score: 100; Grade: A
Read More →Water park, Chehaw could be good fit
Tweet The citizens group that led the successful Darton College four-year nursing program initiative has another idea that pushes the envelope – and makes sense: Putting a water park at Chehaw. Chehaw’s executive director, Doug Porter, says that adding a water playground to the venue is a worthy notion, although he says he wouldn’t want [...]
Read More →A soul-saving mission
Tweet By Kevin Hogencamp Dr. Jim Naylor has been helping save souls for decades; now, he’s stepping up his game. His motivation: A Georgia Baptist Convention (GBC) statistic that shows that 643 of the organization’s member churches did not conduct a Baptism in 2010. Additionally, more than 700 churches conducted only one to three [...]
Read More →ALBANY CLASS OF ’76
Tweet The Albany High School Class of 1976 held its 35-year reunion this month. The festivities began with a meet-and-greet at merry Acres on Friday and continued the next night with a Taste of Albany-themed event at Thronateeska Heritage Center. “The reunion committee greatly appreciates all who took the time to make this event most [...]
Read More →Education Notebook
Tweet Emory University The following local students received a degree from Emory University in Atlanta at its 166th commencement ceremony on May 9, 2011. Kacey Littleton of Sylvester, daughter of Christopher Zane Littleton of Sylvester, and Latrelle Harden of Leesburg, received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing [...]
Read More →Debt ceiling decision: Our future hangs in balance
Tweet As hard as I try I just can’t fathom $14.3 trillion. In fact, the only thing harder to try and fathom is probably that $14.3 trillion is not enough to cover our national debt. Thinking back on my career I realize that at certain stages all I did was add 0’s. When I was [...]
Read More →Author: ‘Black America’ split among four groups
Tweet “Black America” as a single entity is dead, a thing of the past; it is history. Or is it? I was stunned as I read Disintegration; the Splintering of Black America by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Eugene Robinson. Consequently, there can be no single Black leader, as was A. Philip Randolph (Brotherhood of Sleeping Car [...]
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