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An aerial view of the footprint for the new stone water tank Mercer helped construct in the Sabana Bonita community of El Cercado, Dominican Republic from May 31-June 17, 2023.

Unique Tank Construction Highlights Dominican Republic Work

Maura Rutledge, Center for Collaborative Journalism
July 3, 2023

Explainer: Stone Water Tank Construction

Kevin White, Center for Collaborative Journalism
July 3, 2023
Mercer engineering students, along with Sabana Bonita community members construct the water tank walls with stone and mortar. Community members had to sign up for shifts to help construct the tank in addition to paying the fees to maintain the tank.

Water Projects Improve Health of Dominican Republic Communities

Debbie Blankenship, Center for Collaborative Journalism
June 28, 2023

Video: Better Water Access is Focus of Mercer Program

Samantha Vaquero, Center for Collaborative Journalism
June 28, 2023
Georgia Academy for the Blind senior Daquan Brown with the 3d yearbook printed for him and other members of the Class of 2023 by Mercer University engineering students.

Mercer students continue tradition of creating 3D yearbooks for the blind

Grant Blankenship
May 10, 2023
Heaven Upshaw-Peters, foreground, and the rest of the graduates in the Bibb County Teaching as a Profession program, during their Signing Day ceremony recently.

Program aimed at encouraging students to be teachers graduates its first class

Grant Blankenship
May 5, 2023
Randy Bedingfield plays the piano during a November reception at the Daybreak Day Center, which offers an array of services to the unhoused in Macon. Daybreak is privately funded but a Georgia Senate bill would audit public funds spent on such services.

A Georgia Senate bill asks for audits of homeless services. Why?

Grant Blankenship
March 8, 2023
Danielle Jones is the McKinney-Vento liaison for the Bibb County School District where she and a small staff work within the limits of the law to provide stability for homeless students.

Housing aid doesn’t always reach homeless youth. Here’s how educators aim to help

Grant Blankenship
February 1, 2023
13 Investigates: Bibb County Sheriff’s Office estimates 30 minutes for average response time

13 Investigates: Bibb County Sheriff’s Office estimates 30 minutes for average response time

Ashlyn Webb, 13WMAZ News
November 11, 2022
Shakeara Blackshear & Conner Trouser outside the Boys & Girls Club of Central Georgia on Nov. 8. Blackshear took her son with her to vote to show him he has a voice.

Macon-Bibb Votes 2022

November 8, 2022
CCJ Students Grade Government Agencies on Transparency

CCJ Students Grade Government Agencies on Transparency

Debbie Blankenship, Center for Collaborative Journalism
November 7, 2022
Macon-Bibb Industrial Authority provides quick response

Macon-Bibb Industrial Authority provides quick response

Ida Adams, Center for Collaborative Journalism
November 4, 2022
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