ATLANTA – One Blakely farmer has stumbled upon a special kind of seed. Paul Allen, 73, won a $50,000 top prize playing the popular Georgia Lottery instant game Jumbo Bucks Classic. Krishna Food Store, 910 N. Main St. in Blakely, sold the lucky ticket.

SPECIAL PHOTO  BAE Systems hosted a ribbon-cutting celebration at its new Albany office at 2410 Westgate Blvd. With more than 100,000 employees working in more than 100 countries, and reported sales of $36.2 billion in 2009, BAE is the world’s second-largest defense contractor, supporting a range of military and civilian agency customers, including products for [...]

SPECIAL PHOTO Jocyclyn W. Yates, operations manager for Albany Area Primary Health Care Inc., recently completed the 10-day UCLA/Johnson & Johnson Health Care Executive Program. The program aims enhance the management and leadership skills of community-based health care organization executives.

SPECIAL PHOTO Albany Technical College has presented the Marine Corps Logistics Command Maintenance Center Albany (MCA) with a Manufacturer of the Year award. As a vital educational partner in southwest Georgia, Albany Technical College has developed diploma and degree programs in Business Logistics Management to provide employees for MCA. In addition, Albany Tech ramped up [...]

Turner gets two grants The faculty, staff and students at Turner Elementary School are excited to have received both the “Serve and Learn” and “Dollar General Literacy” grants. The $12,500 Serve and Learn grant will give Turner students the opportunity to learn about democracy and citizenship through active participation in various community service projects through which [...]