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Tomorrow is Hug Your Cat Day! Click this link to enter our contest starting tomorrow for the best photo of you hugging y...
06/03/2020

Tomorrow is Hug Your Cat Day! Click this link to enter our contest starting tomorrow for the best photo of you hugging your cat! https://bit.ly/3dvsoo5

Albany Area Primary Health Care has fought COVID-19 in 'shadows'
06/03/2020
Albany Area Primary Health Care has fought COVID-19 in 'shadows'

Albany Area Primary Health Care has fought COVID-19 in 'shadows'

ALBANY – While Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital was in the national media spotlight focusing on the impact of COVID-19 on health care systems in southwest Georgia, other health care providers

Attorney General warns of stimulus check scams
06/03/2020
Attorney General warns of stimulus check scams

Attorney General warns of stimulus check scams

ATLANTA – Attorney General Chris Carr is warning older Georgians, their families and their caretakers to be on the lookout for signs of financial exploitation, especially with regard to the

Fair Count launches virtual census bus tour
06/03/2020
Fair Count launches virtual census bus tour

Fair Count launches virtual census bus tour

DALTON -- Fair Count is launching its first completely virtual bus tour in Dalton Wednesday in an effort to increase participation in the 2020 Census. After having to cancel an

Groups call for uniform voting standards
06/03/2020
Groups call for uniform voting standards

Groups call for uniform voting standards

ATLANTA — All Voting is Local Georgia and more than 10 civil rights organizations, including The Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Campaign Legal Center, the Coalition for the

Sen. Carden Summers announces committee appointments
06/03/2020
Sen. Carden Summers announces committee appointments

Sen. Carden Summers announces committee appointments

ATLANTA -- State Sen. Carden Summers announced Wednesday he has been appointed by Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan to serve on the following Senate committees: Agriculture and Consumer Affairs, Economic Development

Whether yours is a seasonal or non-seasonal craving for apple pie, be sure to satisfy it with this recipe for French App...
06/02/2020
It’s always the right time of year for fresh apple pie

Whether yours is a seasonal or non-seasonal craving for apple pie, be sure to satisfy it with this recipe for French Apple Pie.

Certain foods are synonymous with particular holidays or times of year. For example, few people can imagine celebrating Valentine’s Day without ample supplies of chocolate on hand. And what summer

Dougherty coroner reports death of former Albany Mayor Eugene Clark
06/02/2020
Former Albany Mayor Eugene Clark dies at age 94

Dougherty coroner reports death of former Albany Mayor Eugene Clark

ALBANY – Albany has lost a member of the “Greatest Generation” whose accomplishments continued long after his military service ended.

River slobs
06/02/2020
River slobs

River slobs

PUTNEY -- The boat ramp here a few short miles south of downtown Albany proper is a semi-hidden gem used by a large number of outdoor enthusiasts. However, some who

Loeffler doles out her Senate pay to help state nonprofits
06/02/2020
Loeffler doles out her Senate pay to help state nonprofits

Loeffler doles out her Senate pay to help state nonprofits

ATLANTA -- When she first took office, Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler pledged to donate her full Senate paycheck to charities and nonprofits across the state. Since January, she's donated more

Free MADD program shows youths impact of underage drinking
06/02/2020
Free MADD program shows youths impact of underage drinking

Free MADD program shows youths impact of underage drinking

ATLANTA — The Georgia office of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) has developed a new initiative for the summer under its Power of Youth program. MADD helps youths explore the

Dougherty School System names two new principals
06/02/2020
Dougherty School System names two new principals

Dougherty School System names two new principals

ALBANY -- Chara Willaford, a former principal in Rockdale County, has been named the new principal at Lincoln Elementary Magnet School, while Peach County Principal Anita Mathis will serve as

Wildlife poster contest winners named
06/02/2020
Wildlife poster contest winners named

Wildlife poster contest winners named

SOCIAL CIRCLE – Twelve school children were announced recently as statewide winners in the Give Wildlife a Chance Poster Contest.

Drug Unit, Albany police halt drug delivery
06/02/2020
Drug Unit, Albany police halt drug delivery

Drug Unit, Albany police halt drug delivery

ALBANY -- Uniform officers with the Albany Police Department notified the Albany-Dougherty Drug Unit Saturday after getting a call that a large quantity of marijuana was at the Fed-Ex location

UGA Extension helps Georgia Grown connect to consumers
06/02/2020
UGA Extension helps Georgia Grown connect to consumers

UGA Extension helps Georgia Grown connect to consumers

LAWRENCEVILLE — Like the moments before a race begins, dozens of staff with Georgia Grown and University of Georgia Cooperative Extension prepared to load thousands of pounds of fresh fruit

BearWise website helps people live responsibly with bears
06/02/2020
BearWise website helps people live responsibly with bears

BearWise website helps people live responsibly with bears

SOCIAL CIRCLE – Most human-bear encounters, such as a bear sighting, a bear up on a porch, or a bear in someone’s trash, are minor situations and almost all could

68 arrested in large-scale drug trafficking operation
06/01/2020
68 arrested in large-scale drug trafficking operation

68 arrested in large-scale drug trafficking operation

ATHENS – An ongoing, large-scale drug trafficking investigation dubbed “Operation Wu Block” has yielded criminal charges for 68 individuals and the seizure of kilos of methamphetamine and heroin, with more

Dougherty County courts look at partial re-opening
06/01/2020
Dougherty County courts look at partial re-opening

Dougherty County courts look at partial re-opening

ALBANY -- Dougherty County courts could re-open in about a month, but with safety procedures limiting the number of participants and spectators in courtrooms and other protective measures.

Bad news if you're decorating your home.
06/01/2020
Pier 1 is officially going out of business

Bad news if you're decorating your home.

Pier 1 is officially closing up shop after receiving approval from a bankruptcy court to cease and liquidate its retail operations.

Golden Triangle offers a new option for pathogen safety
06/01/2020
Golden Triangle offers a new option for pathogen safety

Golden Triangle offers a new option for pathogen safety

Reducing the risk of exposure to COVID-19 and other harmful pathogens by cleaning and disinfection is an important part in the re-opening of public spaces and government buildings after an

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Phoebe announces new investment in Southwest Georgia
Phoebe announces new investment in Southwest Georgia

ICYMI: Phoebe President & CEO Scott Steiner announced new investment into healthcare in Southwest Georgia this morning at a press conference. Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/2ZxDipG

Here is a look as Hurricane Michael approaches Lee County. How are conditions in your area? Complete coverage: http://bit.ly/hurricane_michael

Hurricane Michael
Hurricane Michael

BREAKING: Hurricane Michael has strengthened to an 'extremely dangerous' Category 4 storm just hours before landfall. STORY: http://bit.ly/2IMTVTr

LIVE on the Blue Carpet at the #PartyAtThePlayoff where Philip Philips is going to be performing in Atlanta ahead of Monday’s National Championship Game.

The Albany Herald: More than a century of news reporting
The Albany Herald: More than a century of news reporting

John Everett, 92, sings "The Star-Spangled Banner" at Tuesday's dedication of the World War II Monument at Albany's Veterans Park.

Check out this rain video from downtown Albany ...

Surveillance Video from Robbery
Surveillance Video from Robbery

This is surveillance video from the APD.

Barricaded subject
Barricaded subject

A man believed to have been caught in the act of burglarizing an apartment in East Albany is arrested by police after a brief standoff.

Firefighters evacuate Albany Towers Monday morning
Firefighters evacuate Albany Towers Monday morning

Albany Towers house several offices including those of Second District Congressman Sanford Bishop and the Internal Revenue Service.

Albany's Most Wanted: Travis Williams
Albany's Most Wanted: Travis Williams

If anyone knows where to find this guy, call the Albany Police Department.

Funeral of Lt. Cliff Rouse
Funeral of Lt. Cliff Rouse

Hundreds gathered Tuesday to mourn the passing of Dougherty County Police Lt. Cliff Rouse, who was shot and killed in the line of duty Thursday while trying to arrest a suspect in an armed robbery.

Dougherty County Police Press Conference
Dougherty County Police Press Conference

Police officials talk about the robbery and subsequent killing of Lt. Cliff Rouse Friday morning.

County commissioner bows out during retirement ceremony
County commissioner bows out during retirement ceremony

With eight years under his belt as Dougherty County Commissioner, Dr. Charles "Chuck" Lingle participated in his last meeting Monday, choosing retirement after 28 years in public service.

Radium Springs Canned Food Drive Pt III
Radium Springs Canned Food Drive Pt III

Melvenia Dixon, career development teacher at Radium Springs Middle School, discusses this year's holiday canned food drive.

Radium Springs Canned Food Drive Pt. II
Radium Springs Canned Food Drive Pt. II

TASCO president for Radium Springs Middle, Tysheria Green discusses this years food drive.

Radium Springs Food Drive
Radium Springs Food Drive

Radium Springs Middle School student and SAVE Club President Jimmecha Carr talks about the annual holiday food drive.

Thronateeska Heritage Center Holiday Exhibit
Thronateeska Heritage Center Holiday Exhibit

National Guard, high school students give gifts to nursing home
National Guard, high school students give gifts to nursing home

Lead by Westover High School teacher and National Guardsman John Daughety, soldiers and students organized the first patriots and patriots gift drive for Palmyra Nursing Home.

Albany State's Fall Commencement
Albany State's Fall Commencement

More than 350 Albany State University students were awarded degrees Saturday at the Civic Center, with former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod giving the keynote address.

MCLB presents "Christmas Time is Here"
MCLB presents "Christmas Time is Here"

The MCLB band performs a series of Christmas-related music at a concert on base Wednesday.

Headhunters pitch their companies to the city commission
Headhunters pitch their companies to the city commission

Robert Mercer and Colin Baenziger each explain why their companies should be entrusted with the recruitment of the city's next city manager.

L2Networks CEO Kraig Beahns speaks to the WG&L board
L2Networks CEO Kraig Beahns speaks to the WG&L board

WG&L Finance Update
WG&L Finance Update

Albany Water, Gas & Light Commission Finance Director John Vansant III presents the commission with their monthly report on the state of the finances of the utility.

Legislative Breakfast
Legislative Breakfast

Sen. Freddie Powell-Sims' comments on consolidation
Sen. Freddie Powell-Sims' comments on consolidation

Sen. Sims explains her intent behind reintroducing a bill calling for a referendum on consolidation of Albany and Dougherty County.

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The Carl Vinson VA Medical Center is holding a Town Hall at the American Legion Post 30 (2916 Gillionville Road) on Tuesday, Jan. 21 at 5 p.m. The topic will be Whole Health. All Veterans and their families are welcome.
I’m wondering why the Jail Report for the week of December 12, 2019 through December 18, 2019 was not published in the paper? Were there no arrest made in the city during that period of time? Can someone please advise on how to obtain that information?
So clearly there's someone at your office posting onto Facebook but no one can answer the phone. I've called multiple numbers for many days with no answer and no call backs. I'm blown away. Can someone please tell me how to post a classified.
The recent story about the number of Marion County fans at the Marion-Pelhem game is ridiculous. Firstly, what is the point? If Pelhem wouldve won out and played actual competition they wouldve been ranked higher but they were not. So, quoting someone saying (if it was in Pelhem people wouldve been standing every where) is a mute point. The game had no chance of being played there. Also, Marion had a very large number of people standing around the endzone fence. Second thing, the author conveniently used a picture of just the reserved seating in the middle of the Marion stands. The home stands at marion are 3 times the size of the away stands. To the left and right of this picture was quite full. I was in the reserved seats myself. Idk why it's that way but it is. The photo is misrepresenting the facts. Also..... who cares! We will be at Georgia State stadium saturday cheering our boys on!
Science and Climate Change The Main Stream Media trumpets (almost endlessly) that the science regarding climate change is "settled" as evidenced by 97% of climatologists who have reached a "consensus" about anthropogenic (human-induced) global warming. What the press does not stress is that this like-mindedness among these experts is based almost entirely upon computer simulations (GCMs or climate models) and not on any significant experimental data or evidence. Even more distressing is that many (most?) climate advocates see the current scientific findings as fixed and they reject out of hand any actual contrary research results. Any historian of science will quickly belie this unsound position. A couple of solid examples should suffice to dismiss this misbegotten belief. During the late 19th century the entire scientific community accepted as fact the necessary existence of a "luminiferous ether" through which photons from the Sun traveled to reach the Earth. Then in 1887 Michelson & Morley of Case Western Reserve conducted a single experiment that showed that no such "ether" existed. Thus, all the prior evidence and belief was discarded. [Note: Interestingly, it was M&M's research that set Einstein on his search concerning relativity.] The bottom line is that the 97% "consensus" concerning the "settled" science regarding the existence of a luminiferous ether was wrong. Another excellent example is "continental drift". During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, virtually every scientific expert insisted that the position of the Earth's continents was fixed. This scientific conclusion was based upon the observation that although granite existed on the continents, the seafloor seemed to be composed of denser basalt, and the prevailing concept during the first half of the twentieth century was that there were two types of crust, named "sial" (continental type crust) and "sima" (oceanic type crust). Furthermore, it was supposed that a static shell of strata was present under the continents. In 1947, a team of scientists using an array of instruments confirmed the existence of a rise in the central Atlantic Ocean and found that the floor of the seabed beneath the layer of sediments consisted of basalt, not the granite which is the main constituent of continents. They also found that the oceanic crust was much thinner than continental crust. All these new findings raised important and intriguing questions. Beginning in the 1950s, scientists using magnetic instruments (magnetometers) began recognizing odd magnetic "striping" across the ocean floor. After the maps with this "zebra pattern" of magnetic stripes were published, the connection between seafloor spreading and these patterns were correctly linked to patterns of geomagnetic reversals. Again, the 97% "consensus" regarding the "settled" science of fixed continents had to be discarded. Anthropogenic (human-induced) climate change has been falsified In 2014, a group of Chinese researchers found evidence suggesting that the current warm phase of a 500 year cycle could terminate over several decades, ushering in a 250-year cool phase. Then on July 3, 2019, Science Daily announced that new evidence suggests that high-energy particles from space known as galactic cosmic rays affect the Earth's climate by increasing cloud cover, causing an "umbrella effect." When galactic cosmic rays increased during the Earth's last geomagnetic reversal transition 780,000 years ago, the umbrella effect of low-cloud cover led to high atmospheric pressure in Siberia, causing the East Asian winter monsoon to become stronger. This is evidence that galactic cosmic rays influence changes in the Earth's climate. "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has discussed the impact of cloud cover on climate in their evaluations, but this phenomenon has never been considered in climate predictions due to the insufficient physical understanding of it," stated lead investigator, Professor Hyodo. "This study provides an opportunity to rethink the impact of clouds on climate. When galactic cosmic rays increase, so do low clouds, and when cosmic rays decrease clouds do as well, so climate warming may be caused by an opposite-umbrella effect. The umbrella effect caused by galactic cosmic rays is important when thinking about current global warming as well as the warm period of the medieval era." Subsequently, on Aug. 11, 2019, it was reported that a new study had found winters in northern China have been warming since 4,000BC. The study found that winds from Arctic Siberia have been growing weaker, the conifer tree line has been retreating north, and there has been a steady rise in biodiversity in a general warming trend that continues today. It appears to have little to do with the increase in greenhouse gases which began with the industrial revolution, according to the researchers. Lead scientist Dr. Wu Jing, from the Key Laboratory of Cenozoic Geology and Environment at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said the study had found no evidence of human influence on northern China’s warming winters. “Driving forces include the sun, the atmosphere, and its interaction with the ocean,” Wu said. “We have detected no evidence of human influence." Then the web site, Bioengineer.org, on Nov. 6, 2019, cited three papers from the Federal University of Sao Paolo, Brazil which partially affirm the studies from Japan and China. This research insists that "The composition (of marine) sediments carried by rivers from the mainland to the ocean can be used as a basis for calculating variables such as temperature, precipitation, and marine salinity. In the context of ongoing global climate change, the study of the past is fundamental to validating the accuracy of the climate models used to make predictions." SUMMARY The world-famous philosopher of science, Karl Popper, insisted that to be a valid scientific theory any hypothesis must be falsifiable. This includes the widely held conjecture of anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change. In short, a single set of scholarly findings that is not explained by the premise of man-made global warming which is attributable to the burning of fossil fuels can falsify this entire body of scientific speculation and this has now occurred. Today, six peer-reviewed scientific papers that were conducted by six separate groups of expert investigators from four different universities in three separate countries and which have all been published in eminent peer-reviewed scholarly journals have found no evidence to support the assertion regarding human-induced climate change. Instead, all six groups independently found that the warming that has happened was almost entirely attributable to galactic cosmic rays that affect the quantity of the Earth's low hanging clouds. These expert investigators call this canopy or blanket the "umbrella effect". The bottom line is that the entire climate change hysteria has now been falsified and is untrue. These six experimental results have shown that the IPCC and its computer simulation models (GCMs) are not valid. LINKS For those who require links here are six: agencia.fapesp.br/a-novel-m... https://agupubs.onlinelibra... https://www.sciencedaily.co... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.go... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.go..https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3022136/china-scientists-warn-global-cooling-trick-natures-sleeve
Three times lately I have purchased a Sunday Albany Hearld ... and the Comic & Puzzle pages were missing!!