Chorale to host first ‘Messiah’ sing-along

A teenager fatally shot on the night of Oct. 31 was the youngest homicide victim of the year in Dougherty County, a shooting that the Albany Police Department is still investigating.

Phoebe Putney Health System recently honored retiring state Sen. Freddie Powell Sims as the 2025 winner of the Lemuel Griffin Community Service Award and Ken Bevel as the recipient of the 2026 award. Each award comes with a $10,000 donation given to a deserving organization of the honoree’s choice.

In 2006, President George W. Bush described the Republican defeat in Congressional elections as a “thumping.” Four years later, President Obama dubbed what happened to his party a “shellacking.”