Health

1 hospital (50 beds)
14 MD's
3 dentists
1 County Health Center
1 nursing home (116 beds)
1 Assisted Living Care Facility
Family Medical Center

Commercial Services

• Communications: Local Newspapers: weekly.
Dailies delivered: Albany Herald and Atlanta Journal.

• 4 TV channels received (cable available)

• Financial facilities: 4 banks

• Industrial support services - Fabricating, machining, electric motor repair

• Public Accommodations: 16 restaurants (largest capacity, 80).
Several meeting facilities (largest seating capacity, 300).
2 motels with 60 units located on US 82 E., South Georgia Parkway

Recreation

• Facilities:
3 tennis courts. 3 parks. 1 golf course. 1 country club.
Community Center with full-time recreation director.
Chehaw Park & Zoo (21 miles) has swimming, fishing, camping, water skiing, motor boating.

• State Parks:
Reed Bingham State Park (46 miles) with swimming, fishing, camping, water skiing, motor boating, and nature trails.
Georgia Veterans State Park (36 miles) with swimming, fishing, camping, water skiing, motor boating, and 18-hole champion public golf course.

• Public Lake/River: Lake Blackshear (25 miles) has swimming, fishing, camping, water skiing, motor boating.

• Scenic Attractions:
Parade and Arts & Crafts (Sylvester, GA) in October.
Georgia Agrirama at Tifton (20 miles) demonstrates 1890 farm living.
Camp Osborn (13 miles), a Boy Scout Camp with swimming, water sports, rifle and archery ranges. 810-acre camp with full-time ranger.


Education

• Community Schools: 5 county public schools with 261 teachers, 4,635 students, and 200 high school graduates in 1996.

• Higher Education:
Technical Institute - Albany (21 miles) has 2,485 students.
Moultrie Area (27 miles) has 1,072 students.
Two-Year: Darton College in Albany (21 miles) with 2,604 students.
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton (24 miles) with 2,751 students.
Senior College/Univ: Albany State Univ (21 miles) with 3,062 students.
Georgia Southwestern State Univ in Americus (59 miles) with 2,534 students.
Valdosta State Univ (71 miles) with 9,160 students.
Sumner Workforce Development Center of Moultrie Tech (5 miles) has 100 students.


Transportation

• Motor Freight Carriers - 2 interstate. 23 inter/intrastate

• Rail - CSX piggyback service at Cordele (31 miles). Atlantic & Gulf (local)

• Water
Nearest navigable river: Flint (9 foot channel depth) with a public barge dock at Bainbridge (56 miles).
Nearest seaport: Brunswick (148 miles) with a maintained channel depth of 30 feet.

• Air
Nearest commercial air service: Albany (21 miles).
Airlines: Atlantic Southeast.earest public airport at Sylvester (4 miles). 3,400 foot asphalt runway.

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