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THEATRE ALBANY TO CONDUCT AUDITIONS FOR “SPIDER ISLAND”

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Tweet Artistic Director Mark Costello has announced that Theatre Albany will conduct auditions for “Spider Island” by Joseph Spalding, Sunday and Monday, August 26 and 27 at 7:00 p.m. at the theatre located at 514 Pine Avenue.

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APD offers details around bomb scare

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Capt. Benita Childs spoke with members of the media regarding details of a bomb threat against Carmike Cinema theaters throughout the nation.

Tweet Written by Tom Knighton Albany, Ga – Bomb scares aren’t anything new in Albany.  However, today the Good Life City reached a new level in bomb scares as the community was just one of many throughout the nation to fall victim to it.  Captain Benita Childs reports that Albany police received a notification of [...]

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Carmike cinemas subject of bomb threats

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Tweet Staff Reports Albany, Ga – A bomb scare delayed staff members from entering from the Wynnsong 16 theater, owned by Carmike Cinemas.  The scare was just one of many across the nation as the Columbus, Ga based theater chain became the target of a threat.  Reportedly, the threat extended well past Georgia’s borders and [...]

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Random ramblings on high school football: Then versus now

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Tweet I was out the other day for a walk and all of a sudden it hit me that smell, that aroma. Football season is back! I also saw a dad and his boy out throwing the football around. That kind of sealed it the best time of the year is back. This fact brings [...]

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Hometown Heroes

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Tweet Navy Seaman Apprentice Andrea McCain, daughter of Vinnie D. McCain of Albany, Ga. and Andrew J. McCain, of Lithonia, Ga., was recently promoted to her current rank upon graduation from recruit training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill.

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Big night from Chipper lifts Braves over Padres

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Tweet Staff Reports Atlanta, Ga – It may be Chipper Jones’ final season, but last night’s performance has some fans wondering if he should play a couple more seasons.  After all, when a play knocks two homers and brings his batting average up to a team leaning .315, those questions are bound to surface.  Especially [...]

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Allen’s campaign proof that grass roots works

By   /  August 17, 2012  /  Tom Knighton  /  Comments Off

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Tweet Rick Allen shouldn’t have done as well as he did.  The medical supply wholesaler didn’t have the money.  He didn’t have the establishments’ backing either.  He should have, at best, eeked by for a second place finish over Ken DeLoach.  The thing is, he didn’t.  He came in first.

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Suburbia And The Permanent Majority

By   /  August 17, 2012  /  Charlie Harper  /  Comments Off

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Tweet When this column first moved from Peach Pundit and began running on the pages of Courier Herald Publishing’s newspapers, as well as The Albany Journal, I thought it important to explain to the readers a bit about where I was from, and why I, as someone from “Atlanta”, had been added to the editorial pages [...]

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Obituaries

Tweet Eva Grace Hunt, 83, of Albany, GA, died Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at Palmyra Nursing Home.  Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2:00 PM at Mathews Funeral Home.  Minister Freddie Wellborn will officiate.  Interment will follow in Floral Memory Gardens Cemetery.

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Bulldog Receivers See Improvement, Look For More

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Tweet Staff Reports Athens, Ga. — A theme for the Georgia offense all pre-season has been to try and match the achievements of the teams’ highly touted defense. While much has been written about the Bulldogs’ running back situation, as much responsibility lies with the receiving corps as it does with those carrying the ball. [...]

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