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  January 21, 2009 (WALB) - Some Cooper Tire employees have decided not to wait for the inevitable, many have agreed to take the company's offer an volunteer to be the first laid off.   Cooper officials say they're compiling a list of Albany employees who have agreed to participate in the company's early release program and will be among the first group terminated. While company officials didn't want to say how many had signed up, WALB News Ten has learned the number could be in the...

      January 15, 2009 (WALB) - Tens of millions of dollars in improvements are being implemented at MillerCoors in Albany. That was part of an announcement made at Albany Tech Thursday afternoon during a Quick Start agreement between the college and the plant.Quick Start is a work force ready program that develops a specific training program for industries. Already, 25 employees have been added at MillerCoors, as they begin to produce Coors products including Keystone Light and Coors...

  January 13, 2009 (WALB) - Miller Coors Albany plant has added a new product to its line and with it, new jobs. Albany's plant is now producing Coors Light as well as its Miller products.Training of new employees will be done through the state's QuickStart program which is allowing local business to expand for minimal cost.What was once a taste of the Rocky Mountains is now a taste of south Georgia. As part of the consolidation of both Miller and Coors Brewing, Albany's plant is now...

      January 13, 2009 – According to the Association of Surgical Technologists, Albany Technical College Surgical Technology students ranked 13th in the nation on the Performance Assessment Exam (PAE) in the 2007-2008 academic year. Albany Tech also placed in the Top 20 in the PAE scores in 2006-2007 ranking 4th in the nation. The PAE is an assessment exam given to surgical technology students prior to graduation. All Surgical Technology instructors administer this exam as a tool to...

  January 8, 2009 (WALB) - A free course at Albany tech is drawing dozens of students eager to learn English.This week the college started offering an English as a Second Language Course.The ten week course is opened to all speakers of other languages who are older than 16.Administrators say with Georgia's growing Hispanic population, this program is needed. Eight percent of Georgia's population is now Hispanic."Most of the people have high school diplomas or advanced degrees, and they're...

      Albany Tech coach Sylvester Patterson calls the win "the biggest" in the program’s two-year history After upsetting 21st-ranked Coastal Georgia, 90-85, on Wednesday night, the Albany Tech Titans’ excitement could hardly be contained until they reached the locker room.“It was big,” Albany Tech coach Sylvester Patterson said after his team won its NJCAA Region XVII opener. “It was big for the guys. Once they got in the locker room, they just let it all out. To go on the road and...