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Chase Kitchen signed a letter of intent to be an intern at Middle Georgia State University through the Project SEARCH program. Chase, center, is pictured with his parents, Charles and Felisha Kitchen, and Bibb County school board member Lisa Garrett.

‘It gives him a start.’ University program helps Bibb graduates with disabilities take the next step

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
May 22, 2023
This Macon Transit Authority bus shelter on College Street is among 6 downtown shelters that will feature art installations set to be unveiled May 5, 2023.

Macon Transit Authority halts planned bus fare hike – for now

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
April 26, 2023
Ballard Hudson Middle School students Jalexia Maloy, left, and Jayden Parker, center, collect food during their lunch period in their roles as volunteer workers in the Helping Hands Ending Hunger program.

In Bibb County, there’s a pilot program of students feeding students. It’s looking like a success

By Grant Blankenship, GPB News
April 25, 2023
Burdell-Hunt Elementary School students in 2017. The school is one of 11 Bibb elementary schools to be under-enrolled according to state rules.

Future school closures, tax increase among options weighed by Bibb County school board

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
April 23, 2023
The Macon-Bibb County Design Review Board staff deemed the design of the Otis Redding Center for the Arts as inappropriate for the downtown historic district.

Macon musician Otis Redding III, son of legendary singer, dies at 59

GPB News Staff and WMAZ
April 20, 2023
A crew employed by Stafford Construction works on a new home on Ward Street in Macon's Pleasant Hill neighborhood. Pleasant Hill is one of the places carved out for work by a new, federally funded affordable housing non-profit group of which Stafford Construction is a member.

Macon has millions for affordable housing development. A new nonprofit will decide how it’s spent.

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
April 6, 2023
Cirrus Academy Superintendent Gail Fowler announces the school met its academic goals for 2021-2022. It is the first time the state charter school met the State Charter School Commission's academic standards since opening in 2016.

Cirrus Academy meets academic goals for the first time in its history

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
March 30, 2023
A two-pack box of Narcan nasal spray pictured on the front desk of the Macon Inn. A Bibb County Superior Court order issued in November 2022 requires that the hotel keep a minimum of 10 doses of Narcan and make it available for guests upon request. The order also required that the hotel post instructions on how to use the live-saving nasal spray in all common areas on the property.

As overdose deaths rise, Georgia Public Health officials respond with Narcan kits in motels, fentanyl test strips

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
March 27, 2023
The State of Black Georgia report tells a tale of two states

The State of Black Georgia report tells a tale of two states

By Leah Fleming, GPB News
March 20, 2023
The Boys & Girls Club of Central Georgia is among several nonprofits headquartered in the Buck Melton Community Center at Anthony Road and Felton Avenue.

Macon Housing wants to sell community center

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism
March 13, 2023
Scott Seigel, the Market Preseident at Truist, speaks to press outside of the Atrium Health Navicent Beverly Knight Olson Children’s Hospital in Macon, Ga. on Tuesday, Aug. 23. “We couldn’t be more excited to see all the smiles on the faces this morning that the children had when they came up to have their picture taken,” he said of the chance for patients to take photographs with the Braves World Series Commissioner's Trophy. (Photo by Evey Wilson Wetherbee)

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta commits millions to grow rural pediatric care

By Sofi Gratas, GPB News
March 2, 2023
Items from a 1973 time capsule are displayed after it was opened at Atrium Health Navicent hospital on Feb. 28, 2023.

Coins, stamps, the Great Snow of ’73: Macon hospital’s time capsules offer a glimpse of the past

Laura Corley, Civic Journalism Fellow
February 28, 2023
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