Dougherty County election officialsreported a malfunctrion in a ballot scanner and corrective actions taken to compy with state law. At several other precincts voters were moving through the process quickly as there were no lines at mid-morning.
"I'm gonna be honest with y'all, we are down in early votes," Gov. Brian Kemp told supporters at the Albany Jet Center at Southwest Georgia Regional Airport, one stop on GOP nominee Rick Jackson's statewide get-out-the-vote tour. "But I'll tell you this: We were down in early votes in 2018, and like Tim said, rural Georgia turned out on Election Day and sent us to the governor's mansion and to the Gold Dome."
The Phoebe Foundation is gearing up for the 37th annual Jingle Bell Jog on Dec. 5, and officials are looking for a few good men -- women, and children! -- to serve as run volunteers.
The City of Albany requests citizens' cooperation in ensuring that all trucks and trailers operated by all companies, subcontractors, suppliers and haulers have loads properly secured and covered before traveling on city streets and other public roadways.
More than 1,100 Albany State University students, faculty, staff, and community members took part in the university’s fifth annual WellFest that transformed the Jones Brothers HPER Complex on ASU’s East Campus into an interactive hub for health, wellness and community engagement.
Originally on a career track to become an attorney, Maya Henry has taken a different path, one bringing the New Jersey native to southwest Georgia. She became the new Curator of African Collections and African Diasporic Art at the Albany Museum of Art on Oct. 13.
The Dougherty County Commission voted down a proposal to remove invasive vegetation along Cromartie Beach on Monday, with commissioners also unanimously approving a curfew measure.
They came from all over the city -- witches, princesses, Ninja warriors, Cats in Hats, axe-wielding demons, skeletons, policemen, Ninja Turtles, Spider-men, demon fearleaders, all kinds of super heroes and one spot-on, dead-letter-perfect miniature Erkle clone.
The weeks of ads on television and social media, cleaning campaign flyers out of the mailbox, text messages and occasional phone calls pushing political candidates will mercifully come to an end soon.
A few of state Rep. Gerald Greene’s friends, including a former governor and the Georgia Speaker of the House, made a trip to Albany this week to help out in the final push in Greene’s re-election bid.
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