Local Business Owner Honored at SERVPRO(r) Annual Convention
Tweet Special to the Journal Buddy Fitzgerald recognized for outstanding revenue performance at annual event Albany, GA (Grassroots Newswire) July 25, 2013 — Buddy Fitzgerald, Owner of SERVPRO(r) of Albany, was honored with the Millionaire’s Silver award for outstanding revenue performance during SERVPRO’s 44th AnnualConvention, held June 17 – June 21 at the Anaheim Marriott [...]
Read More →Local baseball legend Merritt Ranew passes away
Tweet Staff reports Merritt Thomas Ranew, an Albany native who became a Major League baseball player and successful local horse trainer and businessman, died Tuesday, Oct. 18 at Langdale Hospice House in Valdosta. He was 73. Kimbrell-Stern Funeral Directors is handling the arrangements. Ranew was born on Tuesday, May 10, 1938. In 1957, at [...]
Read More →T. GRAHAM BROWN: THE INTERVIEW
Tweet By Jeremy Roberts Country music singer Anthony “T.” Graham Brown, 56, has recorded 13 studio albums, and has charted more than 20 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. Three of these singles — “Hell and High Water” and “Don’t Go to Strangers” from 1986, and “Darlene” from 1988 — reached No. 1; eight [...]
Read More →A ROOM IN HIS HONOR
Tweet PHOTO BY KEVIN HOGENCAMP Former Albany Area Chamber of Commerce executive director Lamar Clifton, a Dougherty County native who is largely credited for helping lure Miller Brewing Co. to Albany, among other accomplishments, was honored Tuesday in a ceremony naming a Chamber conference room after him. After leaving the Chamber, Clifton enjoyed a career [...]
Read More →Roles revisited after 12 years
Tweet By Lon McNeil For Doug Lorber and Glenn White, Theatre Albany’s current production of “Scapino” must surely have an element of deja vu mixed in with their performances. Twelve years ago, both were hitting their marks in the same play, as the same characters; Scapino, played by Lorber, and Geronte, played by White. The [...]
Read More →Tweet Six Albany Technical College students recently won awards at the 2011 Georgia Collegiate DECA Career Development Conference in Atlanta. By winning at the state level, these students will have the opportunity to attend the International Career Development Conference in Orlando, Fla. The DECA Conference has three categories: Business Simulations, Prepared Business Presentations and [...]
Read More →Deerfield’s Davidson Goldsmith selected Dougherty’s Star Student
Tweet Deerfield Windsor Star Student Davidson Goldsmith was selected Star Student for Dougherty County on Monday in a luncheon at Chehaw hosted by the Albany Area Chamber of Commerce. Goldsmith choose Janet Guillebeau as his “Star Teacher” for the encouragement and attention she provided him as well as all of her other students. Other star [...]
Read More →Obituary: Bobbie Meyer von Bremen, 73
Tweet Bobbie L. Kirksey Meyer von Bremen Mrs. Bobbie L. Kirksey Meyer von Bremen, 73, passed away at her home on February 2, 2011. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Monday February 7, 2011 at Porterfield Memorial United Methodist Church with Rev. Leigh Ann Raynor officiating. Interment will be held at Crown [...]
Read More →Jimmy Wilson: ‘A breath of fresh air’
Tweet By Walter L. Johnson II Jimmy Wilson is one of many southwest Georgia natives to not only pursue his chosen career close to home, but also make a difference in the community he calls home. A banker, Wilson is the 2010 Albany Area Chamber of Commerce chairman.
Read More →Young artists honored
Tweet By David Shivers Like the sweep of a painter’s brush putting the final touches to a brilliant work, the Young Artists Luncheon capped the spring art season sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Dougherty County with a celebration of the skills and talents of youthful painters in Dougherty and Lee counties.
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