A total of four Albany High newspaper students have been named to the 2023-24 All-State Journalism Staff awarded by the Interscholastic LeaguePressConference.

Enrollment for local GED classes has already started, but it is not too late to sign up, according to instructor Kenzie Fairchild Anyone interested in enrolling in the free classes must bring a photo identification and Social Security card in order to sign up.

Thursday, Sept. 12 will be the first session for this year’s Ladies Bible Study Fellowship.

“ Hear me, all of you, and understand: There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person… For fromwithin,outoftheheart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality,...

Mothers Day Out, a ministry of Matthews Memorial Presbyterian Church, will officially open its preschool tomorrow, Sept. 6, for the 2024-2025 school year, according to Meg Walser who is in her fourth year with MDO and her second year as director of the school.

Friendship Baptist Church will kick off its youth and children’s ministry Wednesday, Sept. 11 with pizza and ice cream.

Albany’s Cali Rose is offering weekly afterschool drama classes to students in fourth through sixth grade. The classes began Tuesday, Sept.

On Tuesday, September 10, a “Prayer Meeting for America” will be held at MyrtleWilkesCommunity Center in Cisco. The event will begin at 7:00 p.m.

The Community Bible Study, sponsored by Albany Ministerial Alliance, will resume on Tuesday, Sept. 9 at 11:00 a.m.

The Albany Masonic Lodge is planning to sponsor the 6th annual First Responders Breakfast on Wednesday, Sept. 11.