Vintage Albany
Tweet This undated photo shows the Skeet shooting complex at Radium Springs. The photo was submitted to the Facebook group Vintage Albany, Georgia and was part of the Mary Alford Faulk Photo collection.
Read More →Bye Bye IE6
Tweet Written by Jim Hall. Email your questions to geekspeak@mchsi.com . You can find Jim online at HallsTrainingSolutions.com Microsoft lit the candles on a cake celebrating the demise of Internet Explorer version 6.0 last week. As indicated in this column over the last couple of years IE6.0 had become increasingly vulnerable to [...]
Read More →County health departments now offering vaccine that prevents shingles
Tweet Written by Carolyn Maschke A vaccine recommended for people 60 and older to prevent shingles is now available at Southwest District’s 14 county health departments. “The older a person is, the more severe the effects of shingles typically are,” Southwest Health District Director Dr. Jacqueline Grant said. “The National Centers for [...]
Read More →Streamline Government
Tweet Written by Jim Wilcox, general manager of WALB. Governor Nathan Deal announced an idea to do something that we think is long overdue in state and federal government: consolidate and streamline government agencies. When times were good, and everybody who wanted a job had one, we could carry the inefficiency that government [...]
Read More →What’s so bad about Tebow?
Tweet 316 yards, 31.6 yards for the average pass, John 3:16 and Tim Tebow. That alone almost makes not being a Christian implausible. If one was to write the storyline of the Broncos vs Steelers game like it turned out, it would again fall within the context of sheer implausibility. But those are [...]
Read More →Marriage is Heaven on Earth
Tweet Doug Rea is the Pastor at Connections in Albany, GA. My thesis: I believe that “Heaven on Earth” was and is exactly what God intends for marriage. Moreover, I think that the family is a perfect picture of the Godhead and the relationship between man and God. So for the next few weeks, in [...]
Read More →Sometimes turning a deaf ear is the only means to a parent’s survival
Tweet Brett Buckner is an award-winning freelance newspaper/magazine writer who was raised in Albany. Now I know why parents ignore their children. Back when I was a loathsome knuckle-dragger with little interest in procreation, I’d point, rant and rave about parents whose children appeared starved for attention. My buddies and I would be [...]
Read More →Chehaw to Close January 16 – 27
Tweet Nature’s Playground temporarily closes for forestry management Special to the Journal (Albany, Ga.)- Chehaw Park will be closed January 16 – 27, 2012 to safely and effectively thin and maintain pine trees in the public areas of the park such as picnic, camping and play areas. January is the park’s lowest traffic season [...]
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