For parents, lying is often a necessary evil
Tweet Brett Buckner is an award-winning freelance newspaper/magazine writer who was raised in Albany. Sometimes, parents have to lie. All parents want is for our children to succeed where we failed. Doing that means steering them away from all the dreadful mistakes we made growing up … even if those “mistakes” didn’t turn out all [...]
Read More →Any Given Day
Tweet Tannur “Shewrightz” Ali is originally from Philadelphia, PA. She began writing poetry at 12 years old, and began performing at 13. Winner of the Judith Stark Creative Writing Award, Host/Facilitator of Unplugged (Poetry Reading and Spoken Word venue), and member of The D’town Arts Coalition. Tannur remains active in the art, and always working to [...]
Read More →The Sheriff Speaks
Tweet Kevin Sproul has been with the Dougherty County Sheriff’s Office since 1982 and has served as sheriff since 2008. Helpful tips from Dougherty County Sheriff Kevin Sproul Looking Back on 2011 Happy New Year! Is it just me or do you find it hard to believe that 2011 has come and gone? [...]
Read More →Rogues Gallery
Tweet Written by Jim Hall. Email your questions to geekspeak@mchsi.com . You can find Jim online at HallsTrainingSolutions.com What do I have to do to keep my computer out of trouble? That was the question and I’m taking it to include avoiding security problems and eliminating actions that bring unwanted or unexpected results. [...]
Read More →Here we go again; the art of redundancy
Tweet By Rev. James L. Snyder This year is an election year. Of course, the purpose of this year is to elect a new president. Every four years we elect a “new” president and I have participated in many presidential elections. In all those years of electing a “new” president it has usually worked [...]
Read More →Energize Yourself with D-Ribose
Tweet D-Ribose is a special sugar made in your body that does not come from food. It helps relieve fatigue, soreness, and stiffness after exercise. Sugars we are familiar with are table sugar (sucrose), corn sugar (glucose), milk sugar (lactose), honey (mostly fructose) and others are used by the body as fuel. These [...]
Read More →Darton College Sophomore Diego Ramos is the 2011 National Player of the Year
Tweet Written by David Mann Darton College Head Men’s Soccer Coach Bart Sasnett is glad he checked his email this morning. In a message sent from Uruguay by Darton College sophomore captain Diego Ramos, Sasnet read that the National Soccer Coaches Association of America chose Ramos as the 2011 Men’s Junior College [...]
Read More →Alumni Football Coming to Albany
Tweet Special to the Journal Dust off your old cleats! Alumni football is coming to Albany. Gridiron Alumni is planning several full contact alumni football games. Gridiron Alumni travels the nation pitting old football rivals against each other one more time. Players are needed to sign up and the first 40 players [...]
Read More →Food Scores
Tweet America’s Best Value Inn, 2586 N. SLAPPEY, 31701; Dec. 28; Score: 92; Grade: A Captain D’s, 1902 E OGLETHORPE, 31705; Dec. 21; Score: 85; Grade: B Days Inn, 422 W OGLETHORPE, 31701; Dec. 16; Score: 100; Grade: A Hardee’s, 2324 EAST OGLETHORPE, 31705; Dec. 19; Score: 100; Grade: A Harvest Moon, 2347 DAWSON ROAD, [...]
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