After weeks of being on the front lines in the fight against COVID-19, Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital is resuming some services that had been halted after a recent decline in new coronavirus admissions. However, other counties in the region may be in the situation Dougherty County was in several... Read more
Albany restaurant owners ponder reopening
Georgia Headlines April 30, 2020 0
Several Albany restaurant owners who have met collectively for the last two weeks at the Albany Convention & Visitors Bureau discussed issues Thursday that impact all of them as they prepare to re-open their establishments to dine-in customers, likely in the next few days. Read the full article: Albany... Read more
Phoebe continues to see decrease in COVID-19 cases
Georgia Headlines April 25, 2020 0
The number of COVID-19 patients at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital dropped below 100 on the week, but the number of residents testing positive for the coronavirus climbed by 20 from the previous 24 hours. Read the full article: Albany Herald Read more
Albany restaurant owners say they won’t open
Georgia Headlines April 23, 2020 1
Glenn Singfield, the owner of The Flint and Albany Fish Co. restaurants in Albany and one of a group of 17 restaurant and business owners who met as a group at the downtown Convention & Visitors Bureau Thursday, said what most in the group were thinking when he said... Read more
Dougherty County’s churches seem to be in no rush to open sanctuaries, even as Gov. Brian Kemp has given the OK for the re-opening of restaurants, tattoo parlors and other businesses in coming days. Kemp’s order, which rescinds many of the shelter-in-place restrictions, also would allow churches to resume... Read more