Metro Albany’s unemployment rate declines to 9.2 percent in November
Tweet Special to the Journal Atlanta, Ga – The Georgia Department of Labor announced today that the preliminary unemployment rate in metro Albany declined to 9.2 percent in November, down one-tenth of a percentage point from 9.3 percent in October. The rate was 9.8 percent in November 2011.
Read More →CHILD-ONLY POLICIES TO BE OFFERED IN JANUARY
Tweet Special to the Journal Atlanta, Ga – Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens has signed an order finalizing new rules that will require all insurance companies who sell individual health policies in Georgia to also offer “Child-Only” individual health coverage beginning January 1, 2013.
Read More →Max Griffin
Tweet Mr. Max Griffin, died Wednesday, December 26, 2012 at Phoebe Worth Hospital in Sylvester. His funeral service will be Friday 1 PM at Acree Baptist Church with interment in Crown Hill Cemetery. The family will receive friends Thursday.
Read More →Hometown Heroes
Tweet Air Force Airman Marchelle D. Beamon graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.
Read More →Don’t forget what yesterday was all about
Tweet Christmas time is a time for giving. People give and give, hoping to help their fellow man have a more joyous holiday season. It’s one of the best things about this time of year. That, however, was yesterday. Today is the day after Christmas. Today is the day that people seem to forget all [...]
Read More →The Week of Christmas and Is All Well?
Tweet Many of us are already sick of Christmas by the time we get to this week. We wonder if we are on the last lap of a race that we begin to think there is simply no hope of winning. The music, that we first loved to hear around Thanksgiving, has grown tired and worn us [...]
Read More →A Christmas Story
Tweet “Lookie Daddy, them’s Christmasies.” His three-year-old daughter squeaked in her little singsong voice while leaning way over the edge of the shopping cart. They were in Mayer’s Hardware Store on Christmas Eve. He needed to purchase a new elbow for the kitchen drain. It had frozen and cracked the night that the furnace had [...]
Read More →The Kattlistt Communication: Call it a Cry for Action
Tweet by James Christopher Malphrus They call me #NVR… Did you know? The world ended yesterday, now we have the future that may have been impossible. Granted, the Mayan apocalypse was considered more of a joke than a real fear. But I wrote yesterday about our culture and its love affair with the end of [...]
Read More →DoCo Kiwanis Club Christmas Theater
Tweet Lance “Sherlock” Barnes ((left) and Doug “Officer O’Malley” Lorber compare suspect notes for the “Love You to Death” mystery dinner theatre presentation at the Kiwanis Club of Dougherty County’s annual Christmas celebration, held December 20 at the Chehaw Park education center. A near-capacity crowd turned out for the event, which also featured a wine-tasting [...]
Read More →Buddy Carter: Newtown, Conn
Tweet On June 21, 2008, my mother died. It was the first time in my adult life that I had someone close to me die. The sadness I felt at that time was unlike any other I had ever experienced.
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