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The Albany Police Depart is engaged in a recruitment campaign to get its officer corps up to full strength. APD is budgeted for 214 officers, and right now is about 20 officers short of that level, andMore >>
The Albany Police Depart is engaged in a recruitment campaign to get its officer corps up to full strength. APD offers the training program for people who do not already have POST certification. Starting salary for a rookie officer is over $33,000 annually.More >>
Wednesday, May 22 2013 12:37 PM EDT2013-05-22 16:37:47 GMT
Georgia Congressman Sanford Bishop is joining more than forty members of congress who are asking the United States Postal Service to keep postal processing facilities open until spring 2014.More >>
Georgia Congressman Sanford Bishop is joining more than forty members of congress who are asking the United States Postal Service to keep postal processing facilities open until spring 2014.More >>
Wednesday, May 22 2013 11:52 AM EDT2013-05-22 15:52:19 GMT
An Albany man is trying to get his stolen property returned, after it was taken from his Cumberland Lane home Tuesday, and his camera got a partial look at the culprits. He said that two people brokeMore >>
An Albany man is trying to get his stolen property returned, after it was taken from his Cumberland Lane home Tuesday, and his camera got a partial look at the culprits.More >>
Wednesday, May 22 2013 11:15 AM EDT2013-05-22 15:15:46 GMT
Information from Flowers Foods- Prior to the Flowers Foods (NYSE: FLO) annual shareholders meeting today, the company's board of directors declared a three-for-two split of the company's stock by meansMore >>
Flowers foods announces three-for-two stock split and increases annual dividend rate at shareholders meeting...More >>
Wednesday, May 22 2013 9:02 AM EDT2013-05-22 13:02:25 GMT
ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has said the state can't afford to expand its already-strained Medicaid program to include 650,000 more residents, but his administration is studying ways otherMore >>
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has said the state can't afford to expand its already-strained Medicaid program to include 650,000 more residents.More >>
June 18, 2006
Albany - - Tomorrow, people all over the country will recognize Juneteenth - that's the day slaves in the south found out they were emancipated, even though slaves in the north were already living in their freedom.
Leaders in the Albany branch of the NAACP say it's something more people should be educated on.
Juneteenth is a day set aside every 19th day of June to remember the importance of ALL slaves receiving their freedom - even though President Lincoln made it official before southern slaves even knew about it.
"It was a thing where unfortunately, it was 2 and a half years late and about 400 million dollars short when they actually found out but who is to say if they had found out a year and a half earlier that anyone would've enforced this freedom?" says NAACP President William Wright.
The day is often celebrated with cultural events and entertainment, but Wright says people need to realize just what they're celebrating.
Freed slaves were promised 40 acres and a mule to help them begin their new lives, but shortly after President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. President Andrew Johnson then rescinded that promise.
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