Thumbs Up! – Nov. 28, 2011
The Albany Herald Editorial Board
Last week, city and county officials took time to say a hearty thank you to a select group of citizens. Dougherty County Commissioner John Hayes and Albany City Commissioner Jon Howard are a pair of avid supporters of neighborhood watch programs and first in line to praise participants. With 34 identified watch groups in the Albany/Dougherty area, crime has been reduced in many of the previously unsafe (and not so clean) neighborhoods. Folks look out for one another and their property, report unsavory characters and activities and clean litter from the streets, among other things. Melvin George, a member of the South Dougherty Community League, said it best:
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