This Saturday, June 16, is the annual community clean-up day sponsored by the Albany Chamber of Commerce and the City of Albany, and organizers are hoping for a large turnout so Albany will look its best for the visitors expected to start arriving next week for Fandangle.

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.” [from the Fandangle script]

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

When Jesus says, “Follow me,” He is saying, “Join me in my path; my journey.” Early in His ministry Jesus chose people who were willing to change the course of their lives to do something special.