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Albany Museum of Art awarded Arts Education Grant
ALBANY ─ The Albany Museum of Art was awarded an $8,000 Arts Education Program Grant from the Georgia Council for the Arts, a strategic arm of the Georgia Department of Economic Development, for Fiscal Year 2025. The Arts Education Program Grant supports arts programs for K-12 students and helps fund programs from visual arts to music or theater to dance and creative writing. As part of this ...
Squirrels: Food chain bottom-feeders offer challenge for hunters
ALBANY — Although it does not get the same fanfare as the opening day of deer, turkey or duck season, many Georgia hunters have been counting down the days until Aug. 15, when squirrel season opens in Georgia. With only 20 days to go, you might want to start getting ready as well. The gray squirrel is the most common game animal in Georgia, found in large numbers in both rural and urban areas. ...
Pebble Hill Plantation offers beginner beekeeping class
THOMASVILLE — The Learning Center at Pebble Hill Plantation is offering a beginner beekeeping class with Master Beekeeper Brandon McKenny on Aug. 24 from 4-6 p.m. This informative class will cover the basics of beekeeping and its benefits. The class will be held indoors. Beekeeping in the United States began in the 1600s when European colonists brought honey bees with them to their new ...
Dual-brand Hilton hotel coming to site of former Dawson Road Sears outlet
ALBANY – In about 24 months or less, a new hotel is expected to sprout in northwest Albany at the site of the former Sears store at the Albany Mall. The dual-brand hotel at 2601 Dawson Road will feature extended-stay suites and conventional rooms for travelers. “It’s going to be a Hilton brand hotel,” Hitesh Patel with HNC Investments LLC, which is developing the property, said. The ...
Georgia Wildlife Federation receives Rocky Mountain Elk Grant
COVINGTON – The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation recently funded Georgia Wildlife Federation’s 2024-2025 SY project titled “Fort Valley State University Academics Afield: Connecting Underrepresented College Students to Conservation Through Hunting.” Academics Afield is a college learn-to-hunt program that is implemented at several colleges and universities throughout the Southeastern United ...
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