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William G. Anderson spent much of his life becoming the first Black man to do things no Black man had done before. Curiously, he rarely described his life as though that had ever been the plan.

A long-planned trail connecting downtown Albany to Chehaw Park is moving toward another major decision point, with city officials considering a state grant application and two potential routes for the roughly 1.1-mile link at preliminary costs ranging from $2 million to $4 million.

Downtown Albany’s retail scene has been in the doldrums basically since the Albany Mall sucked all of the oxygen out. Efforts at revitalization have been in the works for much of that time, but success has not come easy. Now, there is hope tfor thefuture of the city center.

As heavy equipment reshapes land for a long-awaited drainage project in south Albany, Ward 6 Commissioner Diane Brown is pushing the city to make sure the neighborhood gets more than a holding pond.

“We are not here to speak bad of the young men that will possibly be coming into our neighborhood,. Our concern is the proposal at this particular property.”

“We certainly have had our share of fires downtown. We look at vacant structures that are burned. You start to really place an emphasis on investigating to determine what happened.”

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp suspended all seven members of the Dublin School Board Monday over claims of financial mismanagement.

William G. Anderson spent much of his life becoming the first Black man to do things no Black man had done before. Curiously, he rarely described his life as though that had ever been the plan.

The Dawson News – August 20, 2026

A long-planned trail connecting downtown Albany to Chehaw Park is moving toward another major decision point, with city officials considering a state grant application and two potential routes for the roughly 1.1-mile link at preliminary costs ranging from $2 million to $4 million.

Downtown Albany’s retail scene has been in the doldrums basically since the Albany Mall sucked all of the oxygen out. Efforts at revitalization have been in the works for much of that time, but success has not come easy. Now, there is hope tfor thefuture of the city center.

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