Diamonds, nose jobs, and fake boobs galore!
Tweet With my 5 year anniversary recently passing I was sitting around waxing nostalgic about our wedding and honeymoon. Particularly our honeymoon. We were married in St. Louis- did the wedding thing, next morning we had brunch with the family and then we drove home to Clarksville where we were living at the [...]
Read More →OUTRAGE!
Tweet Albanians lash out regarding Weaver’s reinstatement Written by Tom Knighton Willie Weaver is headed back to his bench in municipal court, but the controversy surrounding him is far from over. Despite a 5-2 vote by the city commission to return Weaver to duty, many in the community are less than pleased [...]
Read More →NRA Board Member speaks to Exchangites.
Tweet Staff Reports The Exchange Club of Southwest Georgia was recently paid a visit by Curtis Jenkins, a former member of the Georgia General Assembly and a nation board member of the National Rifle Association who spoke about gun rights at the groups meeting November 18. Jenkins, who says “I’m just a [...]
Read More →ALBANY PANTHERS TO HOLD TRYOUTS IN TALLAHASSEE
Tweet Special to the Journal ALBANY, Georgia – The 2011 Champion Albany Panthers are wasting no time in building another championship-caliber team under the direction of head football coach Lucious Davis, and will hold its second open tryout Saturday, January 21,2012 at Titus Sports Academy in Tallahassee, Florida. Registration will begin at 11 [...]
Read More →Small business Saturday
Tweet Written by Bonnie Jefferson Wedged between Black Friday and Cyber Monday was a lesser known shopping day – Small Business Saturday. Begun last year by a credit card company, the suggested shopping day received much more coverage in the news this year than it did last year. It was a day to [...]
Read More →Obituaries
Tweet Theodora Elswick Hansen, 57 Theodora Elswick Hansen, 57, of 204 Elizabeth Ave., Albany died Sunday, November 20 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. No services will be held. A native of Elkview, W.V., Theodora had lived in Albany since 1992 moving from Cuthbert, Ga. She was a Teacher at Radium Springs Middle School [...]
Read More →Unemployment drops to 10.4 percent for October
Tweet Local officials silent about long term improvement Last week, the Georgia Department of Labor released the latest unemployment statistics for the Albany area, which was at 10.4 percent. That was a drop of .4 percent over September, which the Department of Labor attributed to fewer layoffs than expected. The unemployment rate last October [...]
Read More →‘I believe’
Tweet Melancholy was the atmosphere. We entered slowly by vehicle passing those who had arrived quite some time before us. They had their places. Some were families. Some stayed alone. They had no intention of leaving. In all due respect, we didn’t come to see them. We continued to the back. No one [...]
Read More →Albanian Rhapsody
Tweet ‘Unplugged’ has Albany area residents expressing their artistic side With dim lights, someone steps up to the microphone. It’s a small gathering, but those who are there know that the next person could be doing almost anything. Perhaps they are going to do spoken word poetry, or perhaps a humorous song with [...]
Read More →Problem on the Falcons’ Sideline
Tweet I’m a Georgia boy at heart. My teams have always been here in Georgia. I love the Falcons, the Dawgs, the Hawks, and the Braves despite the frequent disappointment I’ve found in their seasons. I’m from Albany after all, so what do you expect? For example, take last football season. Georgia had [...]
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