No Sunday voting but Macon-Bibb expands early voting sites
Liz Fabian, Civic Reporting Senior Fellow
September 18, 2020
Although Sunday voting was a rousing success in 2018, the Macon-Bibb County Board of Elections deadlocked 2-2 when it came to authorizing voting on Oct. 25 for the Presidential...
Cost of COVID: Pandemic alters this year’s Open Streets gatherings
Liz Fabian, Civic Reporting Senior Fellow
September 18, 2020
With Macon-Bibb County still battling a global pandemic, Bike Walk Macon is redesigning its Open Streets activities. Instead of closing down two miles of a street in...
COVID-19 street vendor policy goes into effect in Macon-Bibb
Liz Fabian, Civic Reporting Senior Fellow
September 17, 2020
Food carts and street vendors could soon be popping up around Macon-Bibb County after commissioners approved a temporary relaxing of regulations due to COVID-19. Mayor...
Culver’s restaurant coming to Macon. P&Z approves new open church and medical complex
Liz Fabian, Civic Reporting Senior Fellow
September 14, 2020
By the end of the year, work is set to begin on a new Culver’s restaurant in north Macon. Monday, the Macon-Bibb County Planning and Zoning Commission approved plans...
New north Macon eatery, Napier health hub, old Greyhound terminal change go to P&Z
Liz Fabian, Civic Reporting Senior Fellow
September 10, 2020
The old Metro Diner location in north Macon could soon see new life as a Culver’s restaurant. Monday, the Macon-Bibb County Planning and Zoning Commission will hear a...
Auditor finds some Macon-Bibb retirees shorted in pension calculations
Liz Fabian, Civic Reporting Senior Fellow
September 4, 2020
Local government retirees and survivors could be getting shortchanged when it comes to pension payments. Over the past few months, auditor Stephanie Jones has warned Macon-Bibb...
Macon’s old Greyhound bus station could become liquor store
Liz Fabian, Civic Reporting Senior Fellow
August 21, 2020
There are new plans to put a liquor store in the old Greyhound bus station near the corner of Spring Street and Riverside Drive. Macon-based Goldstone General Contractors...
Paid drive-in audience needed for daredevil TV show at Macon Coliseum
Liz Fabian, Civic Reporting Senior Fellow
August 20, 2020
If you’ve ever wanted to see a blindfolded person walk across a pit of alligators, Monster Trucks leaping into the air or amazing sword-swallowers, a great opportunity awaits. A...
Downtown alcohol law change; SPLOST funds save historic rec center, build south Macon park
Liz Fabian, Civic Reporting Senior Fellow
August 19, 2020
Strolling downtown with a cocktail in hand is no longer limited to Friday nights. Tuesday night, the Macon-Bibb County Commission temporarily relaxed liquor laws and approved...
Macon-Bibb mask mandate sought as COVID-19 deaths double after last push
Liz Fabian, Civic Reporting Senior Fellow
August 17, 2020
On July 10 when the Macon-Bibb County Board of Health pushed for a mandatory mask policy, 41 people already had died of COVID-19 in the county. A little more than a month...
Property taxes increase for some as Macon-Bibb holds millage rate
Liz Fabian, Civic Reporting Senior Fellow
August 11, 2020
Macon-Bibb County commissioners voted to hold the current millage rate at 20.331 mills for 2020, but that doesn’t mean everyone’s taxes will remain the same. Higher...
Rosa Parks Square gets boost in $23 million Macon-Bibb hotel bond deal
Liz Fabian, Civic Reporting Senior Fellow
August 10, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic nearly killed plans for Macon-Bibb County’s first boutique hotel, but a recently signed bond agreement should save the project and also help fund pending...
Veteran multimedia journalist Liz Jarvis Fabian has been on the frontlines of the headlines in Middle Georgia for more than 35 years. The former hurricane chaser and news anchor for The Weather Channel won numerous awards for spot news and writing both hard news and feature stories. In 2017, she was chosen by the Associated Press as Georgia’s Best Beat Reporter from among the state’s leading newspapers for her extensive live coverage of Hurricane Irma. Fabian has worked at all of Macon’s television stations in a variety of roles including news anchor, managing editor, reporter, weathercaster, producer, videographer and editor. You can read her full bio here.
