WALB is not just in the community, we are part of the community. We have decided to do our part to keep our community being a place we are proud to live in.
As we enter the remaining days of the year and look forward to a fresh new start to our lives, stop for a moment and reflect on the true spirit of Southwest Georgia, the true spirit of your neighbor and the true spirit of Christmas!
This Friday night, I will be at a game. I hope you will as well. Support those that made the tough decision to play. That pushed forward and didn’t coward to this virus and the naysayers.
But it’s so important that we continue down this path of social distancing in order to flatten the curve and minimize long term economic harm to our businesses, to our community, to our state.
Chronic hunger is a major problem here in South Georgia. In Dougherty and surrounding counties, one in four residents are “food insecure” as we call it, many times not knowing where the next meal is coming from for them and their families.
But just as we report on the bad, it is also our responsibility to tell you about the good things that happen where you live — the stories about neighbors helping neighbors, and South Georgians working together to make this an amazing place to raise our families.
Now, the city has hired a company called Spectra to manage the Civic Center, Municipal Auditorium, and Veterans Amphitheater. And so far, the new leadership is paying off.
Together, with you — our WALB viewers — we have laughed, celebrated, cried, weathered storms, floods, recovery and rebuilding over the last six decades.
By now we sure hope everyone knows next Tuesday is Election Day, and there may never be a more important time to show up at your polling place and exercise your right to vote.
Albany State University adopted the motto “Unsinkable” during the flood of 1994, and they still displayed an unsinkable spirit in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael.
We will always remember, and we will never forget, that we are truly all Americans who share so much more that bind us together, than can ever divide us.
In a ten year period, Albany city officials will receive an estimated $84 million in funding from MEAG, the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia. What do we have to show for that money?
