By Kevin Hogencamp These are anxious times in Albany, particularly in the public school system. And especially in the school’s administrative offices following the rogue process that resulted in the hiring of Superintendent Joshua Murfree and amid budget cutbacks and a cheating scandal that could result in the Dougherty County School Board losing some of [...]

Editor’s note: The following commentary was provided by the Georgia Forum, a nonpartisan, nonprofit, educational organization. For two decades, Georgia, Alabama and Florida have been battling over future water allocation in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River Basin which straddles their borders. The dispute also involves a number of federal agencies, courts, and mediators. Its outcome is [...]

Staff reports The teenage daughter of Phyllis Banks, the Albany Police Department’s media manager, told police that her mother struck her multiple times with her shoe and threw her police radio at her during a dispute about the teen’s desire to attend a football game. The dispute occurred about 4:30 p.m. Saturday at Banks’ home [...]

Morris Leverett, a former Lee County Commission chairman and Leesburg City Council member, died Saturday. He was 73. The memorial service for Leverett, of 112 Fowler Drive, Leesburg, will be conducted Tuesday at 11 a.m. at First Baptist Church of Leesburg.  Rev. Bobby Harrell will officiate. The visitation will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. [...]

By Kevin Hogencamp Albany Mayor Willie Adams’ campaign manager and a business partner received a letter from City Attorney Nathan Davis this month – the second such letter in five months, ordering them to immediately repay $500,000 loan it received from the city for a failed housing development. Already, the developers have continually ignored the [...]