Enhance Your Holiday Landscape
Tweet by Melinda Myers Add a little holiday sparkle to your landscape for you and your guests to enjoy. No matter the weather outside, a few decorative touches can greatly increase the beauty and enjoyment of your winter landscape. Try one, two or all eight of these tips to improve your landscape’s winter appeal. Add [...]
Read More →Lights of Love tree to light up the outdoors in a return to tradition
Tweet ALBANY, Ga. – The 2013 Lights of Love ceremony will mark a return to tradition, as the annual event, a collaboration of the Junior Woman’s Club of Albany and Phoebe Foundation, will take place outside of the hospital for the first time since 2009. The event is scheduled for Monday, December 9, at 7 [...]
Read More →Hometown Heroes
Tweet Army Pvt. Carnessia A. Davis has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and ceremony, [...]
Read More →Lt Governor Casey Cagle Statement on Retirement of Senator John Crosby
Tweet Special to the Journal Lieutenant Governor Casey Cagle today released the following statement in response to Senator Crosby’s announcement that he would not seek re-election. There is no finer man in the Senate than Judge Crosby. He and his wife Rose have dedicated almost their entire adult lives to public service and all of [...]
Read More →Nine at GRHealth cited for quality patient care
Tweet Augusta, Ga. – Nine Georgia Regents Health System professionals were recently recognized for demonstrating collaborative and supportive partnerships with patients and families during the seventh annual Patient- and Family-Centered Care Conference in October. The following 2013 Family Choice Award recipients were selected by a committee of patients and families from among nearly 60 nominees: [...]
Read More →Orchid Daze
Tweet Exhibit Celebrates Impressionists’ Views of the World ATLANTA (November 20, 2013) – Orchid Daze: Impressionists celebrates the work of three artists who found creative energy in the beauty of landscapes: Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet and Paul Gauguin. The Garden’s annual exhibition, presented February 8 – April 13 in the Fuqua Conservatory and Orchid [...]
Read More →ACT Adds Fall Test Date Option for State & District In-School, Weekday Testing
Tweet Additional Date Provides Greater Flexibility to States & Districts that Administer the ACT® to All Students IOWA CITY, Iowa—ACT announced today that it will be offering a fall in-school, weekday test date option for states and school districts that administer the ACT college readiness exam to all students as part of their academic assessment [...]
Read More →Agriculture Secretary Announces Economic Development Funding to Strengthen Businesses and Create Jobs in Rural Communities
Tweet Grants Include Innovative Local Foods Enterprises WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 2013 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the selection of 34 organizations for grants to help rural cooperatives and small businesses expand and strengthen their capacity to serve rural citizens and communities. “Our rural communities have incredible potential to create new jobs and expand [...]
Read More →AYOTTE, CHAMBLISS CONTINUE FIGHT TO PREVENT GUANTANAMO DETAINEES FROM BEING BROUGHT TO THE UNITED STATES

Tweet Amendment to defense bill aimed at preventing terrorists from reengaging in fight against U.S. WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, took to the Senate floor yesterday to offer an amendment to the [...]
Read More →ASU to host panel on obesity in Southwest Geor

Tweet Obesity has become a nationwide epidemic. Southwest Georgia is especially hard hit, and with obesity linked to a variety of other diseases, it is a focal point for local and regional research efforts. The Albany State University Research Infrastructure in Minority Institutions health disparities research community will join this effort on November 20 and [...]
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