The Shackelford County Courthouse clock “has ticked whole days, whole months, and whole years from the lives of all of us here in Albany. It has kept time for our fathers and grandfathers. As it measures our lives, it ties us to the past... read it in the weathered face of that old clock.

Local businesses and residents are encouraged to join with people across the United States in the annual celebration of Flag Day today, June 14.