Wilson not to be on ballot
Tweet Staff Reports First, Lorenzo Heard had to deal with a technicality with his paperwork notifying the elections office of his intent to run as an independent candidate. The other staff member of Second Greater Mount Olive Baptist Church to try and run for the school board has hit a massive speed bump.
Read More →Barge breaks ranks with GOP on charter schools
Tweet Staff Reports When the state’s school superintendent says they oppose a proposed charter school amendment, it’s news. That’s what happened yesterday when news broke that the state’s republican superintendent of schools said he opposes a charter school amendment that would permit the state to create charter schools.
Read More →Rick Allen receives endorsements
Tweet Written by Tom Knighton Rick Allen isn’t running the typical campaign folks are used to seeing on congressional races. With little money coming in, there haven’t been any big advertising buys. Instead, Allen has gone the old fashioned way and has met as many people in the Second District as humanly possible. The result [...]
Read More →APD on the lookout for BP robbers
Tweet Staff Reports An early morning robbery at the BP station located at the corner of Dawson Road and Westgate has Albany police on the lookout for two men. In an email from APD media manager Phyllis Banks, police are reportedly on the lookout for these two black men. The first Banks describes as wearing, [...]
Read More →Hometown Heroes
Tweet Army Pfc. Benjamin N. Akumengalame has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C.
Read More →Entertaining letters
Tweet Yesterday, I received an interesting letter in the mail. In it, Bonnie Jefferson, who uploads articles and columns to the web here at the Journal but is not a journalist, received a letter accusing her of not having done her research regarding a column. However, the letter was littered with evidence of a poor [...]
Read More →Lee’s sign ordinance changed
Tweet Staff Reports Leesburg – It remains to be seen of independent candidate Tim Nelson will defeat republican incumbent Rick Muggridge for his seat on the Lee County Commission in November. That will be for the voters of district four to decide. However, Nelson has already won a victory when the Lee County Commission voted [...]
Read More →Braves rebound in a big way
Tweet Staff reports Things weren’t looking up for the Braves. Two straight losses are never a good thing, and losing the last one to the Padres was just insult to injury. Atlanta needed to rebound, and rebound big. Thankfully, right-handed pitcher Tim Hudson agreed.
Read More →Dawson Road BP station robbed
Tweet Staff Reports Albany police are on the lookout for two men they say robbed the BP station at the corner of Dawson Road and Westgate in northwest Albany. The two men allegedly entered the store carrying handguns around 4:30 this morning and got an undisclosed amount of cash.
Read More →Regents Should Step Out Of Ivory Tower
Tweet Some people just don’t get it. Georgia voters and taxpayers are angry. Elected officials who demonstrated during the last session of the General Assembly that they had lost the fear of those voters seem to have found some religion after the July 21 primary.
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