SUPPORT The Macon Newsroom
Macon Community News

The Macon Newsroom
Macon Community News

The Macon Newsroom
Macon Community News

The Macon Newsroom
Rodney Mason collects scoops of soil to test from the vacant lot in Kings Park Subdivision where he will grow indigenous cultivars in a neighborhood garden.

Nonprofit using community gardens to reintroduce African food culture

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 13, 2024
Macon-Bibb County Commissioner-elect Stanley Stewart hosts the first meeting of the east Macon neighborhood associations at Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church on Aug. 5, 2024.

East Macon residents gather to discuss gambling machines, development and voting

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Felloe
August 6, 2024
Bibb County school board members are set to decide the fate of Infinity Academy, a charter school that proposes to open downtown next fall, at the school board meeting in August 2024.

Allegations of fraud by proposed charter school are ‘deeply concerning,’ Bibb County school board members say

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
August 1, 2024
In a video posted online the day after Gail Fowler was fired as superintendent of Cirrus Academy, Fowler thanked parents and staff.

Cirrus Academy ousts head of school

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
July 19, 2024
Bibb County Superintendent Dan Sims at the school board meeting July 18, 2024.

Bibb Schools considers plan for school closures, new charter school

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
July 19, 2024
The dormer of this house at 1783 First Ave. overlooks Jefferson Long Park and is down Craft Street from The Little Richard Resource House. The Georgia Department of Transportation paid CEA more than $180,000 to build it for a nonprofit created by Rep. James Beverly.

Minimal oversight led to misspent money meant for Pleasant Hill, records show

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
July 18, 2024
The Macon-Bibb County Community Enhancement Authority build this house at 231 Moughon Street Lane in 2020. Four years later, it is vacant with trash on the porch, boarded up windows and tall grass.

Macon authority created to fight poverty in Pleasant Hill can’t say how it spent millions

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
June 24, 2024
The Buck Melton Community Center is now under the ownership of the Boys & Girls Club of Central Georgia.

Macon community center sold to a nonprofit

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
June 21, 2024
A man was hit by a car at Cotton Avenue and Cherry Street in early June.

Macon wants to add ‘teeth’ to rules keeping downtown sidewalks clear

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
June 18, 2024

‘Bibb has been going backwards.’ State chides superintendent on school performance

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
June 13, 2024
The Bibb County Board of Education met June 11, 2024, for a special called meeting and for its first public hearing on the fiscal year 2025 budget. No one signed up to speak during the hearing.

Bibb County school board may hire a consultant to study potential school closures

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
June 12, 2024
Albert Kenneth Knight Jr. was bludgeoned in the head with a cinder block as he slept in a downtown alley. His son, Albert Kenneth Knight III, said his father was trying to turn his life around and hopes hopes the killer will be brought to justice.

‘I hope they find the person who did this.’ Suspect still at large in homeless man’s killing

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
June 10, 2024
Load More Stories